History of Philosophy of Science: New Trends and Perspectives

Front Matter....Pages I-X
On the Notion of “Law”....Pages 1-11
Hume on Sense Impressions and Objects....Pages 13-24
Kant, Kuhn, and the Rationality of Science....Pages 25-41
Neo-Kantian Origins of Modern Empiricism: On the Relation between Popper and the Vienna Circle....Pages 43-55
Concerning Some Philosophical Reasons for the Recourse to Mathematics in the Study of Physical Phenomena in the Thought of Newton and Leibniz....Pages 57-65
Kant on the Apriority of Causal Laws....Pages 67-80
Whewell and the Scientists: Science and Philosophy of Science in 19 th Century Britain....Pages 81-94
Brouwer’s Argument for the Unity of Scientific Theories....Pages 95-102
The Role of Models in Boltzmann’s....Pages 103-119
Physical Pictures: Engineering Models Circa 1914 and in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus ....Pages 121-135
The Modern History of Scientific Explanation....Pages 137-145
From the Values of Scientific Philosophy to the Value Neutrality of the Philosophy of Science....Pages 147-158
Helmholtz’s Methodology of Sensory Science, the Zeichentheorie , and Physical Models of Hearing Mechanisms....Pages 159-183
Physics without Pictures? The Ostwald-Boltzmann Controversy, and Mach’s (Unnoticed) Middle-Way....Pages 185-198
Ludwig Boltzmann’s Mathematical Argument for Atomism....Pages 199-211
Hilbert’s Program to Axiomatize Physics (in Analogy to Geometry) and Its Impact on Schlick, Carnap and Other Members of the Vienna Circle....Pages 213-224
Hopes and Disappointments in Hilbert’s Axiomatic “Foundations of Physics”....Pages 225-237
Mathematical Physics and Philosophy of Physics (with Special Consideration of J. von Neumann’s Work)....Pages 239-243
How Metaphysical is “Deepening the Foundations”? — Hahn and Frank on Hilbert’s Axiomatic Method....Pages 245-262
The EPR Experiment: A Prelude to Bohr’s Reply to EPR....Pages 263-275
The French Connection: Conventionalism and the Vienna Circle....Pages 277-286
Carnap on Logic and Experience....Pages 287-298
Affinities between Fleck and Neurath....Pages 299-306
Critical Rationalism, Logical Positivism, and the Poststructuralist Conundrum: Reconsidering the Neurath-Popper Debate....Pages 307-324
Philosophy of Biology around the Vienna Circle: Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Joseph Henry Woodger and Philipp Frank....Pages 325-333
B. F. Skinner and P.W. Bridgman: The Frustration of a Wahlverwandtschaft ....Pages 335-346
Sociology of Science, Rule Following and Forms of Life....Pages 347-367
The Philosopher without Qualities....Pages 369-377
The Poverty of “Constructivist” History (and Policy Advice)....Pages 379-389
Vernunftkritik und Wissenschaft. Otto Neurath und der erste Wiener Kreis....Pages 391-396
The Social Origins of Modern Science....Pages 396-398
Karl Popper: The Formative Years, 1902–1945; Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna....Pages 399-404
Bolzano’s Philosophy and the Emergence of Modern Mathematics....Pages 404-408
“Wahrheit suchen und Wahrheit bekennen.” Alexius Meinong: Skizze seines Lebens....Pages 408-413
Einstein: The Formative Years,1879–1909....Pages 413-417
Back Matter....Pages 419-441