Science in Reflection

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Limits of a Deductive Construal of the Function of Scientific Theories

   • Carl G. Hempel

   Pages 1-15

3. Limits of a Deductive Construal of the Function of Scientific Theories

   • Yemima Ben-Menachem

   Pages 17-22

4. Cognitive Limits of Science

   • Gunther Stent

   Pages 23-36

5. How Philosophy and Science Came to Differ

   • Lorenz Krüger

   Pages 37-50

6. The Nature and Scope of Rational-Choice Explanation

   • Jon Elster

   Pages 51-65

7. Rational-Choice Explanation: The Limits to Grounding

   • Marcelo Dascal

   Pages 67-79

8. Realism Versus Anti-Realism: What Is the’Issue?

   • L. Jonathan Cohen

   Pages 81-96

9. Epistemic and Semantic Reflections on Scientific Realism

   • Eddy M. Zemach

   Pages 97-101

10. Can a Naturalist Believe in Universals?

    • David M. Armstrong

    Pages 103-115

11. Can a Naturalist Believe in Universals?

    • Gilead Bar-Elli

    Pages 117-122

12. The Hermeneutical Status of the History of Science: The Views of Hélène Metzger

    • Gad Freudenthal

    Pages 123-144

13. The Hermeneutical Status of the History of Science: The Views of Hélène Metzger

    • Pierre Kerszberg

    Pages 145-150

14. The Era of Independent Inventors

    • Thomas P. Hughes

    Pages 151-168

15. Social Interests and the Organic Physics of 1847

    • Timothy Lenoir

    Pages 169-191

16. Social Interests and the Organic Physics of 1847

    • Joseph Ben-David

    Pages 193-200

17. The Earliest Missionaries of the Copenhagen Spirit

    • John L. Heilbron

    Pages 201-233

18. Back Matter

    Pages 235-237

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The Israel Colloquium for the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science presents before you its third volume of proceedings. The philosophy section of the volume has three main foci: the scientific explanation (Hempel and Ben-Menachem, Elster and Dascal); realism in science (Cohen and Zemach) and its implications for the problem of universals (Armstrong and Bar-Elli); and the question of demarcation: the dividing line between science and philosophy (KrUger), as well as the cognitive limits of science (Stent). There is no neat separation in this volume between essays on the history of science and those on the sociology of science, and perhaps properly so. Thus, Lenoir's contribution is a clear example of the way the two disciplines combine and interrelate. Joseph Ben-David's comment on this lecture was among the last things he wrote, knowing full well that his days were numbered. Reading his contribution imparts a strong sense of loss, the loss of a great sociologist and a wise man. Not only history, however, but also historiography is a subject for reflection in this volume (Freudenthal and Kerszberg). And, finally, a couple of articles convey the sense of fascination with science as a story (Heilbron, Hughes). We have by now come to expect from the investigations reported in the Israel Colloquium series not surface unity of theme and method, but rather an underlying common commitment and zest for the scientific enterprise at its best. The third volume hopes to join the first two in footing this bill.

• history of science
• realism
• science
• sociology of science

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