Logic, Language, and the Structure of Scientific Theories
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Logic, Language, and the Structure of Scientific Theories

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Logic, Language, and the Structure of Scientific Theories

About this book

Logic, Language, and the Structure of Scientific Theories, the second book in the Pittsburgh-Konstanz Series, marks the centennial of the births of Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach. Original essays by internationally distinguished scholars range from epistemology and philosophy of language to logic, semantics, the philosophy of physics and mathematics. In the realm of philosophy of physics it focuses upon such topics as space, time, and causality, which play fundamental roles in relativity theory and quantum mechanics.

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Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Year
1994
Print ISBN
9780822937401
eBook ISBN
9780822970354
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy History & Theory

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. 1. Scientific Philosophy: The Other Side | Gereon Wolters
  4. 2. Geometry, Convention, and the Relativized A Priori: Reichenbach, Schlick, and Carnap | Michael Friedman
  5. Comment | Joelle Proust
  6. 3. Einstein, Kant, and the Origins of Logical Empiricism | Don Howard
  7. Comment: Einstein's Disenchantment | Thomas Oberdan
  8. 4. Scientific Explanation and Equivalent Descriptions | Felix Miihlholzer
  9. Comment: Reichenbach on Realism | Wesley Salmon
  10. 5. Descriptive and Inductive Simplicity | Ilkka Niiniluoto
  11. 6. The Problem of Operational Definitions | Andreas Kamiah
  12. Comment | Joelle Proust
  13. 7. Reichenbach on Quantum Mechanics | Itamar Pitowsky
  14. 8. On Reichenbach's Principle of the Common Cause | Wolfgang Spohn
  15. 9. Camap, Hempel, and Reichenbach on Scientific Realism | Wesley Salmon
  16. 10. With Camap, Beyond Camap: Metaphysics, Science, and the Realism/Instrumentalism Controversy | Paolo Parrini
  17. Comment: Camap on Realism | Wesley Salmon
  18. 11. Functionalist Theories of Meaning and the Defense of Analyticity | Richard Creath
  19. 12. Camap and Quine | Neil Tennant
  20. Comment | W. V. Quine
  21. Index

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