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Scientific Philosophy Today

Essays in Honor of Mario Bunge

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  • © 1982

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Editors:
  1. Joseph Agassi

    1. Boston University, USA
      Tel Aviv University, Israel

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  2. Robert S. Cohen

    1. Boston University, USA

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 67)

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Some Remarks on Ontology

    • Leo Apostel
    Pages 1-44

  3. A Kind of Collapse in a Simple Spacetime Model

    • Máximo García-Sucre
    Pages 45-69

  4. Poetic Imagination and Economy: Ernst Mach as Theorist of Science

    • Rudolf Haller
    Pages 71-84

  5. Some Thoughts on the Ideal of Exactness in Science and Philosophy

    • Peter P. Kirschenmann
    Pages 85-98

  6. On Hypotheses and Hypotheticism

    • WÅ‚adysÅ‚aw Krajewski
    Pages 99-109

  7. The Influence of Heraclitus on Modern Mathematics

    • J. Lambek
    Pages 111-121

  8. Free Intuitionistic Logic: A Formal Sketch

    • Hugues Leblanc
    Pages 123-138

  9. Some Lessons in the Sun

    • Fernand Lemay
    Pages 139-150

  10. Interpretative Action Constructs

    • Hans Lenk
    Pages 151-157

  11. Is Realistic History of Science Possible?

    • Lynn M. Lindholm
    Pages 159-186

  12. Physics and the Doctrine of Reductionism

    • Henry Margenau
    Pages 187-199

  13. Symbolism and Chance

    • John Maynard Smith
    Pages 201-206

  14. A Study in Protophysics

    • Carlos-Ulises Moulines
    Pages 207-224

  15. Materialist Foundations of Critical Rationalism

    • Miguel A. Quintanilla
    Pages 225-237

  16. Analytic Philosophy as the Confrontation Between Wittgensteinians and Popper

    • Gerard Radnitzky
    Pages 239-286

  17. Distrust of Reason

    • Friedrich Rapp
    Pages 287-298

  18. Teleology Redux

    • Michael Ruse
    Pages 299-309

  19. Invariance and Covariance

    • Erhard Scheibe
    Pages 311-331

  20. Molecular Phylogenetics: Biological Parsimony and Methodological Extravagance

    • Abel Schejter, Joseph Agassi
    Pages 333-356
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About this book

This volume is dedicated to Mario Bunge in honor of his sixtieth birthday. Mario Bunge is a philosopher of great repute, whose enormous output includes dozens of books in several languages, which will culminate with his Treatise on Basic Philosophy projected in seven volumes, four of which have already appeared [Reidel, I 974ff. ]. He is known for his works on research methods, the foundations of physics, biology, the social sciences, the diverse applications of mathematical methods and of systems analysis, and more. Bunge stands for exact philosophy, classical liberal social philosophy, rationalism and enlightenment. He is brave, even relentless, in his attacks on subjectivism, mentalism, and spiritualism, as well as on positivism, mechanism, and dialectics. He believes in logic and clarity, in science and open-mindedness - not as the philosopher's equivalent to the poli­ tician's rhetoric of motherhood and apple pie, but as a matter of everyday practice, as qualities to cultivate daily in our pursuit of the life worth living. Bunge's philosophy often has the quality of Columbus's egg, and he is prone to come to swift and decisive conclusions on the basis of argu­ ments which seem to him valid; he will not be perturbed by the fact that most of the advanced thinkers in the field hold different views.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Boston University, USA

    Joseph Agassi, Robert S. Cohen

  • Tel Aviv University, Israel

    Joseph Agassi

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Scientific Philosophy Today

  • Book Subtitle: Essays in Honor of Mario Bunge

  • Editors: Joseph Agassi, Robert S. Cohen

  • Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8462-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1982

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1262-2Published: 31 December 1981

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1263-9Published: 31 December 1981

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-8462-2Published: 29 June 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 518

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science

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