Theory Change, Ancient Axiomatics, and Galileo’s Methodology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. The Structure of Theory Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Growth of Theories: Comments on the Structuralist Approach

      • Ilkka Niiniluoto

      Pages 3-47

   3. Logic and the Theory of Scientific Change

      • V. N. Sadovsky

      Pages 49-61

   4. What have they Done to Kuhn?

      • Zev Bechler

      Pages 63-86

   5. Comment on Zev Bechler’s Paper ‘What have they done to Kuhn?’

      • Robert E. Butts

      Pages 87-91

   6. Comments on Bechler, Niiniluoto and Sadovsky

      • Joseph D. Sneed

      Pages 93-104

   7. The Sociological and the Methodological in the Study of Changes in Science

      • B. G. Yudin

      Pages 105-109

3. The Early History of the Axiomatic Method

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111

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   2. Concerning the Ancient Greek Ideal of Theoretical Thought

      • M. V. Popovich

      Pages 113-124

   3. Was there an Eleatic Background to Pre-Euclidean Mathematics?

      • Karel Berka

      Pages 125-131

   4. Aristotelian Axiomatics and Geometrical Axiomatics

      • Jaakko Hintikka

      Pages 133-144

   5. On The Early History of Axiomatics: The Interaction of Mathematics and Philosophy in Greek Antiquity

      • Wilbur Richard Knorr

      Pages 145-186

   6. Some Remarks on the Controversy Between Prof. Knorr And Prof. Szabó

      • Filippo Franciosi

      Pages 187-191

   7. On The Early History of Axiomatics: A Reply To Some Criticisms

      • Wilbur Richard Knorr

      Pages 193-196

   8. Limitations of the Axiomatic Method in Ancient Greek Mathematical Sciences

      • Patrick Suppes

      Pages 197-213

   9. On Axiomatic and Genetic Construction of Mathematical Theories

      • S. S. Demidov

      Pages 215-221

   10. On The Role of Axiomatic Method in the Development of Ancient Mathematics

       • F. A. Medvedev

       Pages 223-225

4. The Philosophical Presuppositions and Shifting Interpretations of Galileo

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 227-227

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   2. Galilée Et La Mécanisation Du Systéme Du Monde

      • Maurice Clavelin

      Pages 229-251

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

  Jaakko Hintikka, David Gruender

• Dept. of Philosophy, University of Genoa, Italy

  Evandro Agazzi

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.

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