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Hans Reichenbach: Logical Empiricist

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  1. Wesley C. Salmon

    1. University of Arizona, USA

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Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 132)

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. The Philosophy of Hans Reichenbach

    • Wesley C. Salmon
    Pages 1-84

  3. Inference, Practice and Theory

    • F. John Clendinnen
    Pages 85-128

  4. Relative Frequencies

    • Bas C. Van Fraassen
    Pages 129-167

  5. The Probabilities of Theories as Frequencies

    • Ben Rogers
    Pages 169-185

  6. Reichenbach, Reference Classes, and Single Case ‘Probabilities’

    • James H. Fetzer
    Pages 187-219

  7. Reichenbach’s Entanglements

    • Clark Glymour
    Pages 221-237

  8. Reichenbach on Convention

    • Keith Lehrer
    Pages 239-250

  9. Hans Reichenbach’s Relativity of Geometry

    • Andreas Kamlah
    Pages 251-265

  10. Elective Affinities: Weyl and Reichenbach

    • J. Alberto Coffa
    Pages 267-304

  11. Reichenbach and Conventionalism

    • Laurent A. Beauregard
    Pages 305-320

  12. The Geometry of the Rotating Disk in the Special Theory of Relativity

    • Adolf Grünbaum, Allen I. Janis
    Pages 321-339

  13. Two Lectures on the Direction of Time

    • O. Costa de Beauregard
    Pages 341-366

  14. What Might be Right about the Causal Theory of Time

    • Lawrence Sklar
    Pages 367-383

  15. Concerning a Probabilistic Theory of Causation Adequate for the Causal Theory of Time

    • Philip von Bretzel
    Pages 385-402

  16. Why Ask, ‘Why?’? An Inquiry Concerning Scientific Explanation

    • Wesley C. Salmon
    Pages 403-425

  17. Hans Reichenbach on the Logic of Quantum Mechanics

    • Donald Richard Nilson
    Pages 427-474

  18. Reichenbach and the Logic of Quantum Mechanics

    • Gary M. Hardegree
    Pages 475-512

  19. Reichenbach and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

    • Gary M. Hardegree
    Pages 513-566

  20. Causal Anomalies and the Completeness of Quantum Theory

    • Roger Jones
    Pages 567-604
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About this book

Logical empiricism - not to be confused with logical positivism (see pp. 40-44) - is a movement which has left an indelible mark on twentieth­ century philosophy; Hans Reichenbach (1891-1953) was one of its found­ ers and one of its most productive advocates. His sudden and untimely death in 1953 halted his work when he was at the height of his intellectual powers; nevertheless, he bequeathed to us a handsome philosophical inheritance. At the present time, twenty-five years later, we can survey our heritage and see to what extent we have been enriched. The present collection of essays constitutes an effort to do just that - to exhibit the scope and unity of Reichenbach's philosophy, and its relevance to current philosophical issues. There is no Nobel Prize in philosophy - the closest analogue is a volume in The Library of Living Philosophers, an honor which, like the Nobel Prize, cannot be awarded posthumously. Among 'scientific philosophers,' Rudolf Carnap, Albert Einstein, Karl Popper, and Bertrand Russell have been so honored. Had Reichenbach lived longer, he would have shared the honor with Carnap, for at the time of his death a volume on Logical Empiricism, treating the works of Carnap and Reichenbach, was in its early stages of preparation. In the volume which emerged, Carnap wrote, "In 1953, when Reichenbach's creative activity was suddenly ended by his premature death, our movement lost one of its most active leaders.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Arizona, USA

    Wesley C. Salmon

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Hans Reichenbach: Logical Empiricist

  • Editors: Wesley C. Salmon

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9404-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1979

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0958-5Published: 31 July 1979

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-009-9406-5Published: 13 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-9404-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 793

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, History, general

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