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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 / edited by Wesley Salmon and Gereon Wolters.
- 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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- Description
- x, 363 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Logic, Language, and the Structure of Scientific Theories, the second book in the Pittsburgh-Konstanz Series, marks the centennial of the births of Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach. Original essays by internationally distinguished scholars range from epistemology and philosophy of language to logic, semantics, the philosophy of physics and mathematics. In the realm of philosophy of physics it focuses upon such topics as space, time, and causality, which play fundamental roles in relativity theory and quantum mechanics. --Publisher description.
- 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
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings
- History
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0822937409
- 3879404771 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^93047985^
- OCLC
- 29548091
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library