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The Scientific enterprise
- Title
- The Scientific enterprise / edited by Edna Ullmann-Margalit.
- Publication
- Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1992], ©1992.
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- Additional Authors
- Ullmann-Margalit, Edna.
- Description
- ix, 293 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "This is the fourth volume in the series of the Bar-Hillel Colloquium (formerly the Israel Colloquium)." "The essays and commentaries presented here are intended to strike a rather special balance between the disciplines to which the Colloquium is dedicated. The historical and sociological vantage point is addressed in Kramnick's and Mali's treatment of Priestley, in Vickers' and Feldhay's studies of the Renaissance occult, and in Warnke's and Barasch's work on the imagination. From a philosophical angle several concepts, all material to the methodology of science, are taken up: rule following, by Smart and Margalit, analysis, by Ackerman, explanation, by Taylor, and the role of mathematics in physics, by Levy-Leblond and Pitowsky. In addition, the volume contains the proceedings of two symposia dedicated to two towering scientific figures: one celebrates Bohr's centennial, and the other examines "the other" Newton." "The book will appeal to people whose interest or research is in the fields of philosophy, sociology, and history of science, technology and medicine, as well as those interested in Science Education."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- The Bar-Hillel colloquium ; v. 4
- Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 146
- Uniform Title
- Bar-Hillel colloquium ; v. 4.
- Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 146.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Eighteenth-Century Science and Radical Social Theory: The Case of Joseph Priestley's Scientific Liberalism / Isaac Kramnick. Science, Politics, and the New Science of Politics: A Comment / Joseph Mali. Critical Reactions to the Occult Sciences During the Renaissance / Brian Vickers. Critical Reactions to the Occult: A Comment / Rivka Feldhay. Works of the Imagination / Martin Warnke. Works of the Imagination: A Comment / Moshe Barasch. Wittgenstein, Following a Rule, and Scientific Psychology / J.J.C. Smart. How to Outsmart the Rules: A Comment / Avishhai Margalit. Why Does Physics Need Mathematics? / Jean-Marc Levy-Leblond. Why Does Physics Need Mathematics? A Comment / Itamar Pitowsky. Analysis and Its Paradoxes / Felicia Ackerman. Explanation and Practical Reason / Charles Taylor -- Symposium: "The Other Newton" -- The Theological and Alchemical Writings. Gravity and Alchemy / B.J.T. Dobbs. Isaac Newton: Theologian / Richard S. Westfall.
- Newton and the Origins of Fundamentalism / Richard H. Popkin -- Symposium: Niels Bohr Centennial. Man as Spectator and Actor in the Drama of Existence / Shmuel Sambursky. Bohr's Response to Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen / David Z. Albert. The Genesis of Bohr's Complementarity Principle and the Bohr-Heisenberg Dialogue / Mara Beller.
- ISBN
- 0792319923
- 9780792319924
- LCCN
- 92031007
- OCLC
- ocm26590669
- 26590669
- SCSB-2986697
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries