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Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 1989

Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science

ISBN (Hardback): 9789401075466

ISBN (eBook): 9789400923270

Full citation:

James BROWN, Jürgen Mittelstrass (eds), An intimate relation, Berlin, Springer, 1989

An intimate relation

Contents

Apologia pro simplicio

Galileo and the limits of knowledge

Joseph C. Pitt

1-22

Leibniz's "hypothesis physica nova"

a conjunction of models for explaining phenomena

François Duchesneau

153-170

Russell's conundrum

on the relation of Leibniz's monads to the continuum

Richard W. Arthur

171-201

Mesmer in a mountain bar

anthropological difference, Butts, and mesmerism

Gereon Wolters

259-282

History, discovery and induction

Whewell on Kepler on the orbit of mars

Andrew Lugg

283-298

For method

or, against Feyerabend

Larry Laudan

299-317

World pictures

the world of the history and philosophy of science

Jürgen Mittelstrass

319-341

Realism for shopkeepers

behaviouralist notes on constructive empiricism

John M. Nicholas

459-476