Science in reflection

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Science in reflection

the Israel colloquium: studies in history, philosophy, and sociology of science volume 3

edited byEdna Ullmann-Margalit

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Limits of a deductive construal of the function of scientific theories Carl Gustav Hempel

pp.1-15

Limits of a deductive construal of the function of scientific theories Yemima Ben-Menachem

pp.17-22

Cognitive limits of science Gunther Stent

pp.23-36

How philosophy and science came to differ Lorenz Krüger

pp.37-50

The nature and scope of rational-choice explanation Jon Elster

pp.51-65

Rational-choice explanation

the limits to grounding

Marcelo Dascal

pp.67-79

Realism versus anti-realism

what is the issue?

pp.81-96

Epistemic and semantic reflections on scientific realism Eddy M. Zemach

pp.97-101

Can a naturalist believe in universals? David Malet Armstrong

pp.103-115

Can a naturalist believe in universals? Gilead Bar-Elli

pp.117-122

The hermeneutical status of the history of science

the views of Hélène Metzger

Gad Freudenthal

pp.123-144

The hermeneutical status of the history of science

the views of Hélène Metzger

Pierre Kerszberg

pp.145-150

The era of independent inventors Thomas P. Hughes

pp.151-168

Social interests and the organic physics of 1847 Timothy Lenoir

pp.169-191

Social interests and the organic physics of 1847 Joseph Ben-David

pp.193-200

The earliest missionaries of the Copenhagen spirit John L. Heilbron

pp.201-233

Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Dordrecht

Year: 1988

Pages: 237

ISBN (hardback): 978-90-277-2713-8

ISBN (digital): 978-94-009-2957-9

Full citation:

Ullmann-Margalit Edna (1988) Science in reflection: the Israel colloquium: studies in history, philosophy, and sociology of science volume 3. Dordrecht, Springer.