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Science at century's end : philosophical questions on the progress and limits of science

Title
Science at century's end : philosophical questions on the progress and limits of science / edited by Martin Carrier, Gerald J. Massey, and Laura Ruetsche.
Publication
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2000], ©2000.

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Additional Authors
  • Carrier, Martin.
  • Massey, Gerald J.
  • Ruetsche, Laura.
  • Pittsburgh-Konstanz Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science (4th : 1997 : University of Pittsburgh)
Description
xii, 385 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Pittsburgh-Konstanz series in the philosophy and history of science
Uniform Title
Pittsburgh-Konstanz series in the philosophy and history of science.
Subject
Note
  • "Fourth Pittsburgh-Konstanz Colloquium held in Pittsburgh, October 3-7, 1997"--Pref.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Introduction: Science at the End of the Century: Prospects and Limits of Science / Martin Carrier, Gerald J. Massey and Laura Ruetsche -- 1. Extending Ourselves / Paul Humphreys -- 2. The Limits of Generative Atomism: Comment on Paul Humphreys's "Extending Ourselves" / Peter McLaughlin -- 3. The Limits of Natural Science: Rescher's View / Robert Almeder -- 4. Toward the Pale: Cosmological Darwinism and The Limits of Science / Laura Ruetsche -- 5. Nicholas Rescher on the Limits of Science / Jurgen Mittelstrass -- 6. Limits of Science: Replies and Comments / Nicholas Rescher -- 7. How to Pile Up Fundamental Truths Incessantly: On the Prospect of Reconciling Scientific Realism with Unending Progress / Martin Carrier -- 8. Can Computers Overcome Our Limitations? / Nicholas Rescher -- 9. Limits of Self-Observation / Thomas Breuer -- 10. Blinded to History? Science and the Constancy of Nature / Alfred Nordmann --
  • 11. On Kinds of Timelessness: Comment on Nordmann / Richard Raatzsch -- 12. Metaphors and Theoretical Terms: Problems in Referring to the Mental / Hans Julius Schneider -- 13. Unity and the Limits of Science / Margaret Morrison -- 14. Limits and the Future of Quantum Theory / Gordon N. Fleming -- 15. Limits to Biological Knowledge / Alex Rosenberg -- 16. A Physicist's Comment to Rosenberg / Michael Stoltzner -- 17. The Limits of Experimental Method: Experimenting on an Entangled System: The Case of Biophysics / Giora Hon -- 18. On Some Alleged Differences between Physics and Biology / Andreas Hutternann -- 19. Models of Error and the Limits of Experimental Testing / Deborah G. Mayo -- 20. Inductive Logic and the Growth of Methodological Knowledge: Comment on Mayo / Bernd Buldt -- 21. On Modeling and Simulations as Instruments for the Study of Complex Systems / Manfred Stockler.
ISBN
082294121X (alk. paper)
LCCN
99050941
OCLC
  • ocm43329025
  • SCSB-3868652
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries