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A Portrait of Twenty-five Years

Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science 1960–1985

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  • © 1985

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Editors:
  1. Robert S. Cohen

    1. Boston University, USA

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  2. Marx W. Wartofsky

    1. Baruch College, The City University of New York, USA

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. The Falsifiability of Theories: Total or Partial? A Contemporary Evaluation of the Duhem-Quine Thesis

    • Adolf Grünbaum
    Pages 1-18

  3. On Science and Phenomenology

    • Herbert Marcuse
    Pages 19-30

  4. Recent Contributions to the Theory of Innate Ideas

    • Noam Chomsky
    Pages 31-40

  5. The ‘Innateness Hypothesis’ and Explanatory Models in Linguistics

    • Hilary Putnam
    Pages 41-51

  6. The Epistemological Argument

    • Nelson Goodman
    Pages 52-57

  7. Conceptual Revolutions in Science

    • Stephen Toulmin
    Pages 58-74

  8. Is Logic Empirical?

    • Hilary Putnam
    Pages 75-100

  9. Empiricism at Bay?

    • Herbert Feigl
    Pages 101-120

  10. Empiricism at Sea

    • Ernan McMullin
    Pages 121-132

  11. Teleological and Teleonomic, a New Analysis

    • Ernst Mayr
    Pages 133-159

  12. A Note on the Concept of Scientific Practice

    • John Stachel
    Pages 160-176

  13. Explanation and Evolution

    • Marjorie Grene
    Pages 177-197

  14. Constraints on Science

    • Robert S. Cohen
    Pages 198-205

  15. Complex Scientific Problems

    • P. L. Kapitza
    Pages 206-208

  16. Experiment, Theory, Practice

    • P. L. Kapitza
    Pages 209-214

  17. Perception, Representation, and the Forms of Action: Towards an Historical Epistemology

    • Marx W. Wartofsky
    Pages 215-237

  18. Analysis as a Method of Discovery During the Scientific Revolution

    • Noretta Koertge
    Pages 238-256

  19. Biological competition: Decision rules, pattern formation, and oscillations

    • Stephen Grossberg
    Pages 257-276

  20. Valuation and Objectivity in Science

    • Carl G. Hempel
    Pages 277-304
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About this book

The Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science began 2S years ago as an interdisciplinary, interuniversity collaboration of friends and colleagues in philosophy, logic, the natural sciences and the social sciences, psychology, religious studies, arts and literature, and often the celebrated man-in-the­ street. Boston University came to be the home base. Within a few years, pro­ ceedings were seen to be candidates for publication, first suggested by Gerald Holton for the journal Synthese within the Synthese Library, both from the D. Reidel Publishing Company of Dordrecht, then and now in Boston and Lancaster too. Our colloquium was inheritor of the Institute for the Unity of Science, itself the American transplant of the Vienna Circle, and we were repeatedly honored by encouragement and participation of the Institute's central figure, Philipp Frank. The proceedings were selected, edited, revised in the light of the discussions at our colloquia, and then other volumes were added which were derived from other symposia, in Boston or elsewhere. A friendly autonomy, in­ dependent of the Synthese Library proper, existed for more than a decade and then the Boston Studies became fully separate. We were grateful to Jaakko Hintikka for his continued encouragement within that Library. The series Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science was conceived in the broadest framework of interdisciplinary and international concerns. Natural scientists, mathematicians, social scientists and philosophers have contributed to the series, as have historians and sociologists of science, linguists, psychologists, physicians, and literary critics.    

Editors and Affiliations

  • Boston University, USA

    Robert S. Cohen

  • Baruch College, The City University of New York, USA

    Marx W. Wartofsky

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: A Portrait of Twenty-five Years

  • Book Subtitle: Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science 1960–1985

  • Editors: Robert S. Cohen, Marx W. Wartofsky

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

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5345-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1971-3Published: 31 July 1985

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-5345-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 327

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science

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