
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 2002
Series: Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook
ISBN (Hardback): 9789048159765
Full citation:
Michael Heidelberger, Friedrich Stadler (eds), History of philosophy of science, Berlin, Springer, 2002
History of philosophy of science
Contents
Neo-Kantian origins of modern empiricism
on the relation between Popper and the Vienna circle
Lothar Schäfer
43-55
Concerning some philosophical reasons for the recourse to mathematics in the study of physical phenomena in the thought of Newton and Leibniz
Kenneth Simonsen
57-65
Whewell and the scientists
science and philosophy of science in 19th century Britain
Laura J. Snyder
81-94
The role of models in Boltzmann's "Lectures on natural philosophy" (1903-1906)
Nadine De Courtenay
103-119
Physical pictures
engineering models circa 1914 and in Wittgenstein's Tractatus
Susan G. Sterrett
121-135
From the values of scientific philosophy to the value neutrality of the philosophy of science
David J. Stump
147-158
Helmholtz's methodology of sensory science, the zeichentheorie, and physical models of hearing mechanisms
Patrick J. McDonald
159-183
Physics without pictures?
the Ostwald-Boltzmann controversy, and Mach's (unnoticed) middle-way
Matthias Neuber
185-198
Hilbert's program to axiomatize physics (in analogy to geometry) and its impact on Schlick, Carnap and other members of the Vienna circle
Ulrich Majer
213-224
Mathematical physics and philosophy of physics (with special consideration of J. von Neumann's work)
Miklós Rédei
239-243
How metaphysical is "deepening the foundations"?
Hahn and Frank on Hilbert's axiomatic method
Michael Stöltzner
245-262
Critical rationalism, logical positivism, and the poststructuralist conundrum
reconsidering the Neurath-Popper debate
Malachi Hacohen
307-324
Philosophy of biology around the Vienna circle
Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Joseph Henry Woodger and Philipp Frank
Veronika Hofer
325-333
Vernunftkritik und Wissenschaft
Otto Neurath und der erste Wiener Kreis
Thomas Uebel, Massimo Ferrari
391-396
Karl Popper
the formative years, 1902–1945; politics and philosophy in interwar vienna
Malachi Hacohen, Karl Milford
399-404
"Wahrheit suchen und Wahrheit bekennen"
Alexius Meinong, Skizze seines Lebens
Evelyn Dölling, Johann C. Marek
408-413