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Philosophical Foundations of Science

Proceedings of Section L, 1969, American Association for the Advancement of Science

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  1. Raymond J. Seeger
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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 11)

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Table of contents (28 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-IX
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  2. 450th Anniversary of the Death of Leonardo da Vinci

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. An Aspect of Leonardo’s Painting

      • John Shapley
      Pages 3-16

    3. Leonardo Da Vinci and the Sublimatory Process

      • Raymond S. Stites
      Pages 17-40

    4. On the Physical Insights of Leonardo Da Vinci

      • Raymond J. Seeger
      Pages 41-53

    5. Leonardo as Military Engineer

      • Bern Dibner
      Pages 55-95

  3. Physics and the Explanation of Life

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
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    2. Physics and the Explanation of Life

      • Eugene P. Wigner
      Pages 119-132

    3. New Concepts in the Evolution of Complexity

      • J. Bronowski
      Pages 133-151

  4. The George Sarton Memorial Lecture, 1969

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153
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    2. Boltzmann, Monocycles and Mechanical Explanation

      • Martin J. Klein
      Pages 155-175

  5. Current Problems of Cosmology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177
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    2. Introduction to the Symposium on Cosmology

      • John Stachel
      Pages 179-180

    3. Cosmology as a Science

      • Peter G. Bergmann
      Pages 181-188

    4. Open or Closed?

      • Philip Morrison
      Pages 189-202

    5. Cosmic Evolution

      • David Layzer
      Pages 203-213

    6. Highly Condensed Objects

      • Fred Hoyle
      Pages 215-226

    7. The Case for a Hierarchical Cosmology

      • G. De Vaucouleurs
      Pages 227-256

    8. From Mendeléev’s Atom to the Collapsing Star

      • John Archibald Wheeler
      Pages 257-301
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About this book

At the 1969 annual meeting of the American Association for the Ad­ vancement ofScience, held in Boston on December 27-29, a sequence of symposia on the philosophical foundations of science was organized jointly by Section L of the Association and the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science. Section L is devoted to the history, philos­ ophy, logic and sociology of science, with broad connotations extended both to 'science' and to 'philosophy'. With collaboration generously extended by other and more specialized Sections of the AAAS, the Section L program took an unusually rich range of topics, and indeed the audiences were large, and the discussions lively. This book, regrettably delayed in publication, contains the major papers from those symposia of 1969. In addition, it contains the distin­ guished George Sarton Memorial Lecture of that meeting, 'Boltzmann, Monocycles and Mechanical Explanation' by Martin J. Klein. Some additions and omissions should be noted: In Part 1, dedicated to the 450th anniversary of the birth of Leonardo da Vinci, we have been una bie to include a contrihution by Elmer Belt who was prevented by storms from participating. In Part II, on physics and the explanation of life, we were unable to persuade Isaac Asimov to overcome his modesty about the historical remarks he made under the title 'Arrhenius Revisited'.
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Philosophical Foundations of Science

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of Section L, 1969, American Association for the Advancement of Science

  • Editors: Raymond J. Seeger, Robert S. Cohen

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

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2126-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1974

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0390-3Published: 31 July 1974

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0376-7Published: 31 July 1974

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-2126-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 551

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science

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