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Models

Representation and the Scientific Understanding

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  • © 1979

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  1. Marx W. Wartofsky
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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 48)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  2. The Model Muddle: Proposals for an Immodest Realism

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    Pages 1-11

  3. Reduction, Explanation and Ontology

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    Pages 12-23

  4. Models, Metaphysics and the Vagaries of Empiricism

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    Pages 24-39

  5. Metaphysics as Heuristic for Science

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    Pages 40-89

  6. Matter, Action and Interaction

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    Pages 90-103

  7. Towards a Critical Materialism

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    Pages 104-118

  8. The Relation Between Philosophy of Science and History of Science

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    Pages 119-139

  9. Telos and Technique: Models as Modes of Action

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    Pages 140-153

  10. From Praxis to Logos: Genetic Epistemology and Physics

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    Pages 154-174

  11. Pictures, Representation, and the Understanding

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    Pages 175-187

  12. Perception, Representation, and the Forms of Action: Towards an Historical Epistemology

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    Pages 188-210

  13. Rules and Representation: The Virtues of Constancy and Fidelity Put in Perspective

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    Pages 211-230

  14. Action and Passion: Spinoza’s Construction of a Scientific Psychology

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    Pages 231-254

  15. Nature, Number and Individuals: Motive and Method in Spinoza’s Philosophy

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    Pages 255-276

  16. Hume’s Concept of Identity and the Principium Individuations

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    Pages 277-296

  17. Diderot and the Development of Materialist Monism

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    Pages 297-337

  18. Art and Technology: Conflicting Models of Education? The Uses of a Cultural Myth

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    Pages 338-356

  19. Art as Humanizing Praxis

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    Pages 357-369

  20. Back Matter

    Pages 371-398
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About this book

Marx Wartofsky has been working for many years within an unusual confluence of philosophical problems. He brings to these intersecting problems his comprehensive intelligence, at once imaginative and rigorous, analytic and historical. He is a philosopher's philosopher, but also Everyman's. Wartofsky is philosopher of the natural and the social sciences, of perception, esthetics and the creative arts, of the 18th century French and the 19th century Germans, of politics and morality, ofthe methods and morals of medicine, and it is plain, of all human existence. To a colleague, he seems Jack-of-all-philosophical-trades, and master of them too. The reader soon will learn that Wartofsky is a genial, lucid and relaxed philosophical companion, deeply serious but without noticeable anxiety. I need not highlight these selected epistemological papers gathered as, and about, Models, since Wartofsky's own introductory remarks are helpful and stimulating in that respect. I need only, after 21 years of friendship and collaboration with him, warn the reader to beware of how profound and provocative these papers will show themselves to be beneath their good-humored and swiftly-flowing surface. And I must publicly note the pleasure with which I welcome Marx Wartofsky's volume to our Boston Studies. Boston University R.S.C. Center for the Philosophy and History of Science September 1979 vii TABLE OF CONTENTS EDITORIAL PREFACE VII xi AC K NOWLEDGEMENTS xiii INTRODUCTION The Model Muddle: Proposals for an Immodest Realism 1.

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