Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VIII

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2. A Model of Mind-Body Relation in Terms of Modular Logic

   • Satosi Watanabe

   Pages 1-41

3. Comments

   • Ray Solomonoff

   Pages 42-45

4. Comments

   • Marcus Goodall

   Pages 46-47

5. The Relationship of Language to the Formation of Concepts

   • Eric H. Lenneberg

   Pages 48-54

6. The Logical Structure of Physics

   • Laszlo Tisza

   Pages 55-71

7. Discussion

   • Philipp G. Frank, Laszlo Tisza, Robert Maybury, Fritz Steckerl, William Wallace, Armand Siegel et al.

   Pages 72-76

8. Modal Logics I: Modalities and Intensional Languages

   • Ruth Barcan Marcus

   Pages 77-96

9. Comments

   • Willard Van Orman Quine

   Pages 97-104

10. Discussion

    • Ruth Barcan Marcus, Willard Van Orman Quine, Saul Kripke, John McCarthy, Dagfinn Follesdal

    Pages 105-116

11. Modal Logics II: Toward a Formal Analysis of Cultural Objects

    • Alan Ross Anderson, Omar Khayyam Moore

    Pages 117-143

12. Deterministic Interpretations of the Quantum Theory

    • Ralph Schiller

    Pages 144-155

13. Operational Aspects of Hidden-Variable Quantum Theories with a Postscript on the Impact of Recent Scientific Trends on Art

    • Armand Siegel

    Pages 156-173

14. Comments

    • Abner Shimony

    Pages 174-177

15. The Falsifiability of Theories: Total or Partial? A Contemporary Evaluation of the Duhem-Quine Thesis

    • Adolf Grünbaum

    Pages 178-195

16. Comments

    • Robert S. Cohen

    Pages 196-198

17. Perception and Language

    • Noam Chomsky

    Pages 199-205

18. Perception: Cause and Achievement

    • Sidney Morgenbesser

    Pages 206-212

The broad range of interdisciplinary concerns which are encompassed by the philosophy of science have this much in common: (I) they arise from reflection upon the fundamental concepts, the formal structures, and the methodology of the sciences; (2) they touch upon the characteristically philosophical questions of ontology and epistemology in a unique way, bringing to traditional conceptions the analytic apparatus of modern logic, and the new content and conceptual models of active scientific investigations. These sources are reflected in the present volume, which consists of the major portion of the papers presented to the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science in the academic year 1961-1962. There is no central theme nor any dominant approach in this colloquium. Initiated in 1960 as an inter-university interdisciplinary faculty group, the Colloqnium is intended to foster creative and regular exchange of research and opinion, to provide a forum for professional discussion in the philosophy of science, and to stimulate the development of academic programs in philosophy of science in the colleges and universities of metropolitan Boston. The base of the Colloquium is our philosophic and scientific community, as broad and heterodox as the academic, cultural and techno­ logical complex in and about this city. The Colloquium has been supported in its first full year, as an inter-institutional cooperative association, by a generous grant to Boston University from the U. S. National Science Foundation. We are most grateful for this help.

• Interpretation
• corpus
• epistemology
• interdisciplinary
• interpret
• logic
• methodology
• modal logic
• model
• opera
• philosophy
• philosophy of science
• present
• science
• structure

• Department of Philosophy, Boston University, Boston, USA

  Marx W. Wartofsky

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