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Correspondence, Invariance and Heuristics

Essays in Honour of Heinz Post

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  • © 1993

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  1. Steven French

    1. Southeast Missouri State University, Missouri, USA

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  2. Harmke Kamminga

    1. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 148)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Correspondence, Invariance and Heuristics: In Praise of Conservative Induction

    • H. R. Post
    Pages 1-43

  3. Correspondence and Reduction in Chemistry

    • Eric R. Scerri
    Pages 45-64

  4. Taking Antecedent Conditions Seriously: A Lesson in Heuristics from Biology

    • Harmke Kamminga
    Pages 65-82

  5. The Rise of the ‘Fifth Force’

    • Allan Franklin
    Pages 83-103

  6. Michael Faraday’s Thought: Discovery or Revelation?

    • Elspeth Crawford
    Pages 105-124

  7. Ideology, Heuristics and Rationality in the Context of Discovery

    • Noretta Koertge
    Pages 125-136

  8. Towards an Acceptable Theory of Acceptance: Partial Structures Inconsistency and Correspondence

    • Newton C. A. Da Costa, Steven French
    Pages 137-158

  9. Tales from the Classroom: The See-Saw

    • Avinash K. Puri
    Pages 159-169

  10. The Unnatural Nature of the Laws of Nature: Symmetry and Asymmetry

    • Giora Hon
    Pages 171-187

  11. Galilean Relativity and Galileo’s Relativity

    • Alan Chalmers
    Pages 189-205

  12. Pragmatic Circles in Relativistic Time Keeping

    • Clive Kilmister, Barrie Tonkinson
    Pages 207-225

  13. Correspondence, Invariance and Heuristics in the Emergence of Special Relativity

    • Harvey R. Brown
    Pages 227-260

  14. Underdetermination, Conventionalism and Realism: The Copenhagen vs. the Bohm Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

    • James T. Cushing
    Pages 261-278

  15. Measurement and Quantum Silence

    • Arthur Fine
    Pages 279-294

  16. To What Physics Corresponds

    • Simon Saunders
    Pages 295-325

  17. Is the End of Physics in Sight?

    • Michael Redhead
    Pages 327-341

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 343-363
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About this book

This volume is presented in honour of Heinz Post, who founded a distinc­ tive and distinguished school of philosophy of science at Chelsea College, University of London. The 'Chelsea tradition' in philosophy of science takes the content of science seriously, as exemplified by the papers presented here. The unifying theme of this work is that of 'Correspondence, Invariance and Heuristics', after the title of a classic and seminal paper by Heinz Post, published in 1971, which is reproduced in this volume with the kind permission of the editors and publishers of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Described by Paul Feyerabend in Against Method as "brilliant" and " . . . a partial antidote against the view which I try to defend" (1975, p. 61, fn. 17), this paper, peppered with illustrative examples from the history of science, brings to the fore some of Heinz Post's central concerns: the heuristic criteria used by scientists in constructing their theories, the intertheoretic relationships which these criteria reflect and, in particular, the nature of the correspondence that holds between a theory and its predecessors (and its suc­ cessors). The appearance of this volume more than twenty years later is an indica­ tion of the fruitfulness of Post's contribution: philosophers of science continue to explore the issues raised in his 1971 paper.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Southeast Missouri State University, Missouri, USA

    Steven French

  • University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Harmke Kamminga

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