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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, 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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Yes, you can access Logic, Language, and the Structure of Scientific Theories by Wesley C. Salmon,Gereon Wolters in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Philosophy & Philosophy History & Theory. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Scientific Philosophy: The Other Side | Gereon Wolters
- 2. Geometry, Convention, and the Relativized A Priori: Reichenbach, Schlick, and Carnap | Michael Friedman
- Comment | Joelle Proust
- 3. Einstein, Kant, and the Origins of Logical Empiricism | Don Howard
- Comment: Einstein's Disenchantment | Thomas Oberdan
- 4. Scientific Explanation and Equivalent Descriptions | Felix Miihlholzer
- Comment: Reichenbach on Realism | Wesley Salmon
- 5. Descriptive and Inductive Simplicity | Ilkka Niiniluoto
- 6. The Problem of Operational Definitions | Andreas Kamiah
- Comment | Joelle Proust
- 7. Reichenbach on Quantum Mechanics | Itamar Pitowsky
- 8. On Reichenbach's Principle of the Common Cause | Wolfgang Spohn
- 9. Camap, Hempel, and Reichenbach on Scientific Realism | Wesley Salmon
- 10. With Camap, Beyond Camap: Metaphysics, Science, and the Realism/Instrumentalism Controversy | Paolo Parrini
- Comment: Camap on Realism | Wesley Salmon
- 11. Functionalist Theories of Meaning and the Defense of Analyticity | Richard Creath
- 12. Camap and Quine | Neil Tennant
- Comment | W. V. Quine
- Index