The Kaleidoscope of Science

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. On the Empirical Application of Mathematics and Some of its Philosophical Aspects

   • Stephan Körner

   Pages 1-11

3. On the Empirical Application of Mathematics A Comment

   • Haim Gaifman

   Pages 13-16

4. Meaning and Our Mental Life

   • Hilary Putnam

   Pages 17-32

5. Meaning and Our Mental Life A Comment

   • Eddy M. Zemach

   Pages 33-37

6. The Persecution of Absolutes: On the Kantian and Neo-Kantian Theories of Science

   • Amos Funkenstein

   Pages 39-63

7. Origin and Spontaneity A Comment

   • Nathan Rotenstreich

   Pages 65-73

8. Cognitive Illusions in Judgment and Choice

   • Amos Tversky

   Pages 75-87

9. The Past of an Illusion A Comment

   • Avishai Margalit

   Pages 89-94

10. Molecular Genetics and the Falsifiability of Evolution

    • Bernard D. Davis

    Pages 95-110

11. On Experimental Approaches and Evolution A Comment

    • Yadin Dudai

    Pages 111-115

12. Darwin’s Principle of Divergence as Internal Dialogue

    • David Kohn

    Pages 117-132

13. On Darwin’s Principle of Divergence A Comment

    • Silvan S. Schweber

    Pages 133-136

14. Molecular versus Biological Evolution and Programming

    • Henri Atlan

    Pages 137-145

15. Gamow’s Theory of Alpha-Decay

    • Roger H. Stuewer

    Pages 147-186

16. On Gamow’s Theory of Alpha-Decay A Comment

    • Harry J. Lipkin

    Pages 187-192

17. The Group Construction of Scientific Knowledge: Gentlemen-Specialists and the Devonian Controversy

    • Martin J. S. Rudwick

    Pages 193-217

18. On the Devonian Controversy A Comment

    • Silvan S. Schweber

    Pages 219-223

19. Knowledge and Power in the Sciences

    • Everett Mendelsohn

    Pages 225-240

20. Knowledge and Power in the Sciences A Comment

    • Yaron Ezrahi

    Pages 241-245

This collection is the first proceedings volume of the lectures delivered within the framework of the Israel Colloquium for the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science, in its year of inauguration 1981-82. It thus marks the beginning of a new venture. Rather than attempting to express an ideology of the l}nity of science, this collection in fact aims at presenting a kaleidoscopic picture of the variety of views about science and within science. Three main disciplines come together in this volume. The first of scientists, the second of historians and sociologists of science, the third of philosophers interested in science. The scientists try to present the scientific body of knowledge in areas where the scientific adventure kindles the imagination of the culture of our time. At the same of course, they register their own reflections on the nature of this body time, of knowledge and on its likely course of future development. For the historians and sociologists, in contrast, science is there to be studied diachronically, as a process, on the one hand, and synchronically, as a social institution, on the other. As for the phil9sophers, finally, their contribution to this series is not meant to remain within the confines of what is usually seen as the philosophy of science proper, or to be limited to the analysis of the scientific mode of reasoning and thinking: it is allowed, indeed encouraged, to encompass alter­ native, and on occasion even competing, modes of thought.

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