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Science in Reflection

The Israel Colloquium: Studies in History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science Volume 3

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  1. Edna Ullmann-Margalit
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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 110)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  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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About this book

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Science in Reflection

  • Book Subtitle: The Israel Colloquium: Studies in History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science Volume 3

  • Editors: Edna Ullmann-Margalit

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

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2957-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1988

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2712-1Published: 31 July 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2713-8Published: 31 July 1988

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-2957-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 238

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science

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