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Spanish Studies in the Philosophy of Science

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  • © 1996

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Editors:
  1. Gonzalo Munévar

    1. The Evergreen State College, Olympia, USA

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 186)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. The Story of a Non-Discovery: Helmholtz And The Conservation Of Energy

    • Javier Ordóñez
    Pages 1-18

  3. Empirical Methods in Mathematics

    • Javier Echeverría
    Pages 19-55

  4. Philosophy and Cosmology

    • Jesús Mosterín
    Pages 57-88

  5. The Incompleteness of Technics

    • Miguel A. Quintanilla
    Pages 89-102

  6. Bayesian Induction and Statistical Inference

    • Andrés Rivadulla
    Pages 103-121

  7. The Nature of Science and the Problem of Demarcation

    • Francisco J. Ayala
    Pages 123-142

  8. Biological and Moral Altruism

    • Camilo J. Cela Conde
    Pages 143-151

  9. The Ultimate Epistemological Consequences of the Darwinian Conception

    • Carlos Castrodeza
    Pages 153-178

  10. The Present Concept of the Gene

    • Antonio Fontdevila
    Pages 179-199

  11. The Philosophy of Technology Assessment

    • Manuel Medina
    Pages 201-226

  12. The Biologization of our Culture

    • Nicanor Ursúa
    Pages 227-242

  13. Four Instrumental Proposals

    • Juan Carlos García-Bermejo Ochoa
    Pages 243-257

  14. Prototype-Based Judgements and Skepticism about Rationality in Naturalized Epistemology

    • Fernando Broncano
    Pages 259-273

  15. The Role of Methodology in Models of Scientific Change

    • Anna Estany
    Pages 275-297

  16. Prediction and Mathematics: The Wittgensteinian Approach

    • Wenceslao J. González
    Pages 299-332

  17. Scientific Progress

    • Juan Vázquez
    Pages 333-343

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 345-363
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An anthology of contemporary philosophy of science in Spain. Essays on 19th Century physics, the new cosmology, philosophy of biology, scientific rationality, philosophy of mathematics, phenomenology's account of scientific progress, science and ethics, philosophy of economics, methodology, and the philosophy of technology.

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  • The Evergreen State College, Olympia, USA

    Gonzalo Munévar

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