Models

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvi

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2. The Model Muddle: Proposals for an Immodest Realism

   • Marx W. Wartofsky

   Pages 1-11

3. Reduction, Explanation and Ontology

   • Marx W. Wartofsky

   Pages 12-23

4. Models, Metaphysics and the Vagaries of Empiricism

   • Marx W. Wartofsky

   Pages 24-39

5. Metaphysics as Heuristic for Science

   • Marx W. Wartofsky

   Pages 40-89

6. Matter, Action and Interaction

   • Marx W. Wartofsky

   Pages 90-103

7. Towards a Critical Materialism

   • Marx W. Wartofsky

   Pages 104-118

8. The Relation Between Philosophy of Science and History of Science

   • Marx W. Wartofsky

   Pages 119-139

9. Telos and Technique: Models as Modes of Action

   • Marx W. Wartofsky

   Pages 140-153

10. From Praxis to Logos: Genetic Epistemology and Physics

    • Marx W. Wartofsky

    Pages 154-174

11. Pictures, Representation, and the Understanding

    • Marx W. Wartofsky

    Pages 175-187

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

    • Marx W. Wartofsky

    Pages 188-210

13. Rules and Representation: The Virtues of Constancy and Fidelity Put in Perspective

    • Marx W. Wartofsky

    Pages 211-230

14. Action and Passion: Spinoza’s Construction of a Scientific Psychology

    • Marx W. Wartofsky

    Pages 231-254

15. Nature, Number and Individuals: Motive and Method in Spinoza’s Philosophy

    • Marx W. Wartofsky

    Pages 255-276

16. Hume’s Concept of Identity and the Principium Individuations

    • Marx W. Wartofsky

    Pages 277-296

17. Diderot and the Development of Materialist Monism

    • Marx W. Wartofsky

    Pages 297-337

18. Art and Technology: Conflicting Models of Education? The Uses of a Cultural Myth

    • Marx W. Wartofsky

    Pages 338-356

19. Art as Humanizing Praxis

    • Marx W. Wartofsky

    Pages 357-369

20. Back Matter

    Pages 371-398

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Marx Wartofsky has been working for many years within an unusual confluence of philosophical problems. He brings to these intersecting problems his comprehensive intelligence, at once imaginative and rigorous, analytic and historical. He is a philosopher's philosopher, but also Everyman's. Wartofsky is philosopher of the natural and the social sciences, of perception, esthetics and the creative arts, of the 18th century French and the 19th century Germans, of politics and morality, ofthe methods and morals of medicine, and it is plain, of all human existence. To a colleague, he seems Jack-of-all-philosophical-trades, and master of them too. The reader soon will learn that Wartofsky is a genial, lucid and relaxed philosophical companion, deeply serious but without noticeable anxiety. I need not highlight these selected epistemological papers gathered as, and about, Models, since Wartofsky's own introductory remarks are helpful and stimulating in that respect. I need only, after 21 years of friendship and collaboration with him, warn the reader to beware of how profound and provocative these papers will show themselves to be beneath their good-humored and swiftly-flowing surface. And I must publicly note the pleasure with which I welcome Marx Wartofsky's volume to our Boston Studies. Boston University R.S.C. Center for the Philosophy and History of Science September 1979 vii TABLE OF CONTENTS EDITORIAL PREFACE VII xi AC K NOWLEDGEMENTS xiii INTRODUCTION The Model Muddle: Proposals for an Immodest Realism 1.

• education
• historical epistemology
• history of science
• materialism
• monism
• philosophy of science
• reduction

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