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Logic, language, and the structure of scientific theories : proceedings of the Carnap-Reichenbach centennial, University of Konstanz, 21-24 May 1991
- Title
- Logic, language, and the structure of scientific theories : proceedings of the Carnap-Reichenbach centennial, University of Konstanz, 21-24 May 1991 / edited by Wesley Salmon and Gereon Wolters.
- Publication
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press ; [Konstanz] : Universitätsverlag Konstanz, c1994.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- x, 363 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Pittsburgh-Konstanz series in the philosophy and history of science
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Scientific philosophy : the other side / Gereon Wolters -- Geometry, convention, and the relativized a priori : Reichenbach, Schlick, and Carnap / Michael Friedman ; Comment / Joëlle Proust -- Einstein, Kant, and the origins of logical empiricism / Don Howard ; Comment : Einstein's disenchantment / Thomas Oberdan -- Scientific explanation and equivalent descriptions / Felix Mühlhölzer ; Comment : Reichenbach on realism / Wesley Salmon -- Descriptive and inductive simplicity / Ilkka Niiniluoto -- The problem of operational definitions / Andreas Kamlah ; Comment / Joëlle Proust -- Reichenbach on quantum mechanics / Itamar Pitowsky -- On Reichenbach's principle of the common cause / Wolfgang Spohn -- Carnap, Hempel, and Reichenbach on scientific realism / Wesley Salmon -- With Carnap, beyond Carnap : metaphysics, science, and the realism/instrumentalism controversy / Paolo Parrini ; Comment : Carnap on realism / Wesley Salmon -- Functionalist theories of meaning and the defense of analyticity / Richard Creath -- Carnap and Quine / Neil Tennant ; Comment / W. V. Quine.
- Call Number
- JFE 01-12575
- ISBN
- 3879404771 (acid-free paper)
- 0822937409
- LCCN
- 93047985
- OCLC
- 29548091
- Title
- Logic, language, and the structure of scientific theories : proceedings of the Carnap-Reichenbach centennial, University of Konstanz, 21-24 May 1991 / edited by Wesley Salmon and Gereon Wolters.
- Imprint
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press ; [Konstanz] : Universitätsverlag Konstanz, c1994.
- Series
- Pittsburgh-Konstanz series in the philosophy and history of science
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Salmon, Wesley C.Wolters, Gereon.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 01-12575