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Experience, Reality, and Scientific Explanation

Workshop in Honour of Merrilee and Wesley Salmon

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Editors:
  1. Maria Carla Galavotti

    1. University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

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  2. Alessandro Pagnini

    1. University of Florence, Firenze, Italy

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Part of the book series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science (WONS, volume 61)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. The Reception of German Scientific Philosophy in North America: 1930–1962

    • Robert E. Butts
    Pages 1-14

  3. Immanenzgedanken and Knowledge as Unification. Scientific Philosophy and Philosophy of Science

    • Paolo Parrini
    Pages 15-37

  4. Wesley Salmon on Explanation, Probability and Rationality

    • Maria Carla Galavotti
    Pages 39-54

  5. Bayesian Confirmation

    • Roberto Festa
    Pages 55-87

  6. The Great Illusion: Ignorance, Informational Cascades, and the Persistence of Unpopular Norms

    • Cristina Bicchieri, Yoshitaka Fukui
    Pages 89-121

  7. On Hume’s Experimental Atheism

    • Alessandro Pagnini
    Pages 123-141

  8. It Happened at the Same Time: Salmon and the Conventionality of Distant Simultaneity

    • Martin Carrier
    Pages 143-161

  9. On Various Realisms in Quantum Theory

    • Michael Stöltzner
    Pages 163-186

  10. Wrongful Life: Logico-Empiricist Philosophy of Biology

    • Gereon Wolters
    Pages 187-208

  11. Comments

    • Merrilee H. Salmon, Wesley C. Salmon
    Pages 209-239

  12. Words of Appreciation

    • Wesley C. Salmon
    Pages 241-241

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 243-252
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About this book

The papers collected here comprise the proceedings of a Workshop in honor ofMerrilee and Wes Salmon, held in Florence on May 17-18, 1996. The aim of the meeting was to pay homage to these two American scholars, whose contact with Italian and European Universities and Institutes had a major influence on "Continental" thought in the field of epistemology and probability. In fact, Merrilee and Wes spent various periods lecturing at the Universities of Bologna, Florence, Rome, Trieste, Catania and Pisa, as well as in the University of Constance, where they helped to build a strong cultural "bridge" with the Pittsburgh Center for the Philosophy of Science. The Florence Center for the History and Philosophy of Science is particularly thankful to the Salmons for their ongoing cooperation and frequent visits. We must not forget that Wes Salmon was in the Florence Center and at the Philosophy Department of Florence, as visiting scholar, on many occasions, and that he made important contributions which have later appeared in Italian journals, such as Iride and Rivista di jilosojia. Merrilee was a speaker at the Conference on "Genetics, Linguistics, and Archaeology" (May 20-24,1991), organized by the Florence Center. Both Wes and Merrilee often enlivened the arguments of the initiatives they took part in.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

    Maria Carla Galavotti

  • University of Florence, Firenze, Italy

    Alessandro Pagnini

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Experience, Reality, and Scientific Explanation

  • Book Subtitle: Workshop in Honour of Merrilee and Wesley Salmon

  • Editors: Maria Carla Galavotti, Alessandro Pagnini

  • Series Title: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9191-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1999

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-5497-0Published: 31 December 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5145-5Published: 28 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-9191-1Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1566-659X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1974

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 252

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, Logic, Epistemology, Philosophy of Nature

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