Spanish Studies in the Philosophy of Science

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
The Story of a Non-Discovery: Helmholtz And The Conservation Of Energy....Pages 1-18
Empirical Methods in Mathematics....Pages 19-55
Philosophy and Cosmology....Pages 57-88
The Incompleteness of Technics....Pages 89-102
Bayesian Induction and Statistical Inference....Pages 103-121
The Nature of Science and the Problem of Demarcation....Pages 123-142
Biological and Moral Altruism....Pages 143-151
The Ultimate Epistemological Consequences of the Darwinian Conception....Pages 153-178
The Present Concept of the Gene....Pages 179-199
The Philosophy of Technology Assessment....Pages 201-226
The Biologization of our Culture....Pages 227-242
Four Instrumental Proposals....Pages 243-257
Prototype-Based Judgements and Skepticism about Rationality in Naturalized Epistemology....Pages 259-273
The Role of Methodology in Models of Scientific Change....Pages 275-297
Prediction and Mathematics: The Wittgensteinian Approach....Pages 299-332
Scientific Progress....Pages 333-343
Back Matter....Pages 345-363