Title | Structures and Norms in Science [electronic resource] : Volume Two of the Tenth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Florence, August 1995 / edited by Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara, Kees Doets, Daniele Mundici, Johan Van Benthem |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1997 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0538-7 |
Descript | XVIII, 494 p. online resource |
Inaugural address -- Trends in the foundation of physics -- Section 6 Methodology -- The empirical character of evidence -- Partiality, pursuit and practice -- Section 7 Probability, induction and decision theory -- Prior inferences for posterior judgements -- Game theory, rationality and evolution -- Section 8 History of logic, methodology and philosophy of science -- Anomalies and the revision of theory-elements: notes on the advance of Mercuryโs perihelion -- The prehistory of infinitary logic: 1885โ1955 -- Section 9 Ethics of science and technology -- Engineers, ethics and sustainable development -- Are there ethical reasons for being, or not being, a scientific realist -- Rights and autonomy of scientists: cases in the Peopleโs Republic of China -- On ethics and changing expertise in technology assessment -- Unpopular and precautionary science: towards a new ethics of science -- Testing models of natural systems: can it be done? -- Section 11 Philosophy of the physical sciences -- Macroscopic reality and the dynamical reduction program -- Section 12 Philosophy of biological sciences -- On conflicts between genetic and developmental viewpoints โ and their attempted resolution in molecular biology -- The โparamount power of selectionโ: from Darwin to Kauffman -- Environmental causes in ontogeny and an ethics of attention -- Section 13 Philosophy of cognitive sciences and AI -- Mental causation without the language of thought -- What is the problem of mental causation? -- Classical constituents in Smolenskyโs ICS architecture -- Section 14 Philosophy of linguistics -- Non-constituent coordination, wrapping, and multimodal categorial grammars -- Meaning sensitivity and grammatical structure -- Section 15 Philosophy of the social sciences -- Qualitative consistency masquerading as quantitative fit -- Why does evidence matter so little to economic theory -- Selection and attraction in cultural evolution -- Symposium 2 Semantics and semiotics -- Semantics and semiotics -- On meaning, logic and verbal language -- Semantics and semiotics -- Symposium 3 Logic and philosophy of science in the Far East -- Logic and philosophy of science in the Far East -- Logic in China -- Recent developments of logic, computer science, and philosophy of science in Japan -- Philosophy of science in Korea, 1950โ1995 -- Philosophy of science in Taiwan -- Table of contents Vol. I