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1 online resource |
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Boston studies in the philosophy and history of science, 0068-0346 ; v. 273 |
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Boston studies in the philosophy and history of science ; v. 273.
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| Contents |
Introductory Chapters -- The Berlin Group and the Vienna Circle: Affinities and Divergences / Nikolay Milkov -- The Berlin Group and the USA: A Narrative of Personal Interactions / Nicholas Rescher -- Historical and Theoretical Context -- J.F. Fries' Philosophy of Science, the New Friesian School and the Berlin Group: On Divergent Scientific Philosophies, Difficult Relations and Missed Opportunities / Helmut Pulte -- Ernst Cassirer, Kurt Lewin, and Hans Reichenbach / Jeremy Heis -- Hans Reichenbach -- Genidentity and Topology of Time: Kurt Lewin and Hans Reichenbach / Flavia Padovani -- Did Reichenbach Anticipate Quantum Mechanical Indeterminism? / Michael Stöltzner -- Everybody Has the Right to Do What He Wants: Hans Reichenbach's Volitionism and Its Historical Roots / Andreas Kamlah -- Walter Dubislav -- Dubislav and Classical Monadic Quantificational Logic / Christian Thiel -- "Demonstrations", Not "Deductions": Walter Dubislav on Transcendental Arguments / Temilo van Zantwijk -- Dubislav and Bolzano / Anita Kasabova -- Kurt Grelling -- The Third Man: Kurt Grelling and the Berlin Group / Volker Peckhaus -- Gestalt, Equivalency, and Functional Dependency: Kurt Grelling's Formal Ontology / Arkadiusz Chrudzimski -- Paul Oppenheim and Carl Hempel -- Paul Oppenheim on Order--The Career of a Logico-Philosophical Concept / Paul Ziche, Thomas Müller -- Carl Hempel: Whose Philosopher? / Nikolay Milkov -- Hempel, Carnap, and the Covering Law Model / Erich H. Reck |
| Summary |
The Berlin Group for scientific philosophy was active between 1928 and 1933 and was closely related to the Vienna Circle. In 1930, the leaders of the two Groups, Hans Reichenbach and Rudolf Carnap, launched the journal Erkenntnis. However, between the Berlin Group and the Vienna Circle, there was not only close relatedness but also significant difference. Above all, while the Berlin Group explored philosophical problems of the actual practice of science, the Vienna Circle, closely following Wittgenstein, was more interested in problems of the language of science. The book includes first discussion ever (in three chapters) on Walter Dubislav's logic and philosophy. Two chapters are devoted to another author scarcely explored in English, Kurt Grelling, and another one to Paul Oppenheim who became an important figure in the philosophy of science in the USA in the 1940s-1960s. Finally, the book discusses the precursor of the Nord-German tradition of scientific philosophy, Jacob Friedrich Fries |
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Science -- Philosophy |
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Philosophy |
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Philosophy of Science |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Science -- Philosophy.
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SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
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Droit.
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Sciences sociales.
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Sciences humaines.
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Science -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Milkov, Nikolay, 1953-
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Peckhaus, Volker
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| ISBN |
9789400754850 |
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940075485X |
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