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Probabilistic Thinking, Thermodynamics and the Interaction of the History and Philosophy of Science

Proceedings of the 1978 Pisa Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science Volume II

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1981

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Editors:
  1. Jaakko Hintikka

    1. Dept. of Philosophy, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA

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  2. David Gruender

    1. Dept. of Philosophy, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA

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  3. Evandro Agazzi

    1. Dept. of Philosophy, University of Genoa, Italy

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Table of contents (23 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Probability Theory and Probabilistic Thinking in the Classical Modern Period

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Why do We Find the Origin of a Calculus of Probabilities in the Seventeenth Century?

      • Ivo Schneider
      Pages 3-24

    3. Some Remarks on the Calculus of Probability in the Eighteenth Century

      • LuboÅ¡ Nový
      Pages 25-32

    4. Probability and the Problem of Induction

      • V. N. Kostiouk
      Pages 33-40

    5. Probabilities and Causes: On Life Tables, Causes of Death, and Etiological Diagnoses

      • Anne M. Fagot
      Pages 41-104

    6. From the Emergence of Probability to the Erosion of Determinism

      • Ian Hacking
      Pages 105-123

    7. John Venn’s Logic of Chance

      • Wesley C. Salmon
      Pages 125-138

    8. Robert Leslie Ellis and the Frequency Theory

      • Wesley C. Salmon
      Pages 139-143

  4. What Can the History and Philosophy of Science and Philosophy do for Each Other?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 239-239
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    2. What have the History and Philosophy of Science to do for one Another?

      • Evandro Agazzi
      Pages 241-248

    3. A Comment on E. Agazzi, ‘What have the History and Philosophy of Science to do for One Another’

      • L. A. Markova
      Pages 249-251

    4. Methodology and the Functional Identity of Science and Philosophy

      • Robert E. Butts
      Pages 253-270

    5. On Making History

      • J. D. North
      Pages 271-282
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About this book

The two volumes to which this is apreface consist of the Proceedings of the Second International Conference on History and Philosophy of Science. The Conference was organized by the Joint Commission of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science (IUHPS) under the auspices of the IUHPS, the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science, and the Domus Galilaeana of Pisa, headed by Professor Vincenzo Cappelletti. Domus Galilaeana also served as the host institution, with some help from the University of Pisa. The Conference took place in Pisa, Italy, on September 4-8, 1978. The editors of these two volumes of the Proceedings of the Pisa Conference acknowledge with gratitude the help by the different sponsoring organizations, and in the first place that by both Divisions of the IUHPS, which made the Conference possible. A special recognition is due to Professor Evandro Agazzi, President of the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science, who was co­ opted as an additional member of the Organizing Committee. This committee was otherwise identical with the Joint Commission, whose members were initially John Murdoch, John North, Arpad Szab6, Robert Butts, Jaakko Hintikka, and Vadim Sadovsky. Later, Erwin Hiebert and Lubos Novy were appointed as additional members.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. of Philosophy, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA

    Jaakko Hintikka, David Gruender

  • Dept. of Philosophy, University of Genoa, Italy

    Evandro Agazzi

About the editors

Jaakko Hintikka is the author or co-author of thirty volumes and of some 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, philosophy of science, history of ideas and history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Peirce, The Bloomsbury Group, Husserl and Wittgenstein. He has also been active in international scholarly organizations, most recently as the First Vice-President of FISP, Vice-President of IIP and Co-Chair of the American Organizing Committee of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Synthese and the Managing Editor of Synthese Library since 1965.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Probabilistic Thinking, Thermodynamics and the Interaction of the History and Philosophy of Science

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the 1978 Pisa Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science Volume II

  • Editors: Jaakko Hintikka, David Gruender, Evandro Agazzi

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2766-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1981

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1127-4Published: 31 December 1980

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8361-6Published: 25 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-2766-2Published: 17 April 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 338

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, History, general, Logic

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