Nature and Scientific Method

Introduction - vii
PART I: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES
1. Rom Harre, Causality and Reality - 3
2. Patrick A. Heelan, Hermeneutical Philosophy and the History of Science - 23
3. Robert Sokolowski, Explaining - 37
4. Jude P. Dougherty, Abstraction and Imagination in Human Understanding - 51
5. Francis J. Collingwood, Duhem’s Interpretation of Aristotle on Mathematics in Science - 63
6. Nicholas Rescher, Baffling Phenomena - 81
7. Mario Bunge, Basic Science Is Innocent; Applied Science and Technology Can Be Guilty - 95
PART II: HISTORICAL STUDIES
8. R. F. Hassing, Thomas Aquinas on Phys. VII. 1 and the Aristotelian Science of the Physical Continuum - 109
9. Jean de Groot, Philoponus on Separating the Three-Dimensional in Optics - 157
10. Jean Dietz moss, Ludovico Carbone’s Commentary on Aristotle’s De Caelo - 175
11. Richard J. Blackwell, Foscarini’s Defense of Copernicanism - 199
12. Edith Sylla, Galileo and Probable Arguments - 211
13. Richard H. Kennington, Bacon’s Critique of Ancient Philosophy in New Organon I - 235
14. Andrea Croce Birch, The Problem of Method in Newton’s Natural Philosophy - 253
15. Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Kant’s Metaphysics of Nature - 271
16. Edward H. Madden, The Reidian Tradition: Growth of the Causal Concept - 291
Publications of William A. Wallace, O.P. - 309
Contributors - 319
Index - 323