Methodology, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science

Essays in Honour of Wolfgang Stegmüller on the Occasion of his 60th B irth day, June 3rd, 1983. Reprinted from the Journal Erkenntnis, Vol. 19, Nos 1,2 and 3

440 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Content.- Theory and Measurement.- Vom Henker, vom Lügner und von ihrem Ende.- On the Current Status of the Issue of Scientific Realism.- Situation Semantics and the "Slingshot" Argument.- Notes on the Well-Made World.- Logical Foundations of Psychoanalytic Theory.- Friedlands Sterne oder Facta und Ficta.- Mathematics, the Empirical Facts, and Logical Necessity.- Quines Ontologiekriterium.- Zufall und Notwendigkeit in Wittgensteins Tractatus.- Moralbegründung ohne Metaphysik.- Probability as a Quasi-Theoretical Concept - J.V. Kries' Sophisticated Account after a Century.- Valuations for Direct Propositional Logic.- Logical Semantics for Natural Language.- On How the Distinction between History and Philosophy of Science Should Not Be Drawn.- Vagueness and Alternative Logic.- The Rationalist Theory of Double Causality as an Object of Hume's Criticism.- A Modest Concept of Moral Sense Perception.- Structuralism and Scientific Realism.- Deterministic and Probabilistic Reasons and Causes.- The Meaning of Probability Statements.- Normative Principles of Rational Communication.- Persönliche Anmerkungen.

• Themen: Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften Naturwissenschaften, allgemein Wissenschaftsphilosophie und -theorie
• ISBN: 9789048183890
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.12.2010
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Springer
• Herausgegeben von: Carl G. Hempel, Wilhelm K. Essler, H. Putnam