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Logic, Language, and the Structure of Scientific Theories /

Logic, Language, and the Structure of Scientific Theories, the second book in the Pittsburgh-Konstanz Series, marks the centennial of the births of Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach. Original essays by internationally distinguished scholars range from epistemology and philosophy of language to logi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Wolters, Gereon, Salmon, Wesley C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Konstanz] : Universitätsverlag Konstanz, 1994.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Scientific philosophy : the other side / Gereon Wolters
  • Geometry, convention, and the relativized a priori : Reichenbach, Schlick, and Carnap / Michael Friedman ; Comment / Joëlle Proust
  • Einstein, Kant, and the origins of logical empiricism / Don Howard ; Comment : Einstein's disenchantment / Thomas Oberdan
  • Scientific explanation and equivalent descriptions / Felix Mühlhölzer ; Comment : Reichenbach on realism / Wesley Salmon
  • Descriptive and inductive simplicity / Ilkka Niiniluoto
  • The problem of operational definitions / Andreas Kamlah ; Comment / Joëlle Proust
  • Reichenbach on quantum mechanics / Itamar Pitowsky
  • On Reichenbach's principle of the common cause / Wolfgang Spohn
  • Carnap, Hempel, and Reichenbach on scientific realism / Wesley Salmon
  • With Carnap, beyond Carnap : metaphysics, science, and the realism/instrumentalism controversy / Paolo Parrini ; Comment : Carnap on realism / Wesley Salmon
  • Functionalist theories of meaning and the defense of analyticity / Richard Creath
  • Carnap and Quine / Neil Tennant ; Comment / W.V. Quine.