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History of Philosophy of Science

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    Chapter 1 On the Notion of “Law”
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    Chapter 2 Hume on Sense Impressions and Objects
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    Chapter 3 Kant, Kuhn, and the Rationality of Science
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    Chapter 4 Neo-Kantian Origins of Modern Empiricism: On the Relation between Popper and the Vienna Circle
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    Chapter 5 Concerning Some Philosophical Reasons for the Recourse to Mathematics in the Study of Physical Phenomena in the Thought of Newton and Leibniz
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    Chapter 6 Kant on the Apriority of Causal Laws
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    Chapter 7 Whewell and the Scientists: Science and Philosophy of Science in 19th Century Britain
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    Chapter 8 Brouwer’s Argument for the Unity of Scientific Theories
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    Chapter 9 The Role of Models in Boltzmann’s
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    Chapter 10 Physical Pictures: Engineering Models Circa 1914 and in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus
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    Chapter 11 The Modern History of Scientific Explanation
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    Chapter 12 From the Values of Scientific Philosophy to the Value Neutrality of the Philosophy of Science
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    Chapter 13 Helmholtz’s Methodology of Sensory Science, the Zeichentheorie, and Physical Models of Hearing Mechanisms
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    Chapter 14 Physics without Pictures? The Ostwald-Boltzmann Controversy, and Mach’s (Unnoticed) Middle-Way
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    Chapter 15 Ludwig Boltzmann’s Mathematical Argument for Atomism
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    Chapter 16 Hilbert’s Program to Axiomatize Physics (in Analogy to Geometry) and Its Impact on Schlick, Carnap and Other Members of the Vienna Circle
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    Chapter 17 Hopes and Disappointments in Hilbert’s Axiomatic “Foundations of Physics”
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    Chapter 18 Mathematical Physics and Philosophy of Physics (with Special Consideration of J. von Neumann’s Work)
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    Chapter 19 How Metaphysical is “Deepening the Foundations”? — Hahn and Frank on Hilbert’s Axiomatic Method
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    Chapter 20 The EPR Experiment: A Prelude to Bohr’s Reply to EPR
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    Chapter 21 The French Connection: Conventionalism and the Vienna Circle
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    Chapter 22 Carnap on Logic and Experience
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    Chapter 23 Affinities between Fleck and Neurath
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    Chapter 24 Critical Rationalism, Logical Positivism, and the Poststructuralist Conundrum: Reconsidering the Neurath-Popper Debate
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    Chapter 25 Philosophy of Biology around the Vienna Circle: Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Joseph Henry Woodger and Philipp Frank
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    Chapter 26 B. F. Skinner and P.W. Bridgman: The Frustration of a Wahlverwandtschaft
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    Chapter 27 Sociology of Science, Rule Following and Forms of Life
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    Chapter 28 The Philosopher without Qualities
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    Chapter 29 The Poverty of “Constructivist” History (and Policy Advice)
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    Chapter 30 Vernunftkritik und Wissenschaft. Otto Neurath und der erste Wiener Kreis
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    Chapter 31 The Social Origins of Modern Science
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    Chapter 32 Karl Popper: The Formative Years, 1902–1945; Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna
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    Chapter 33 Bolzano’s Philosophy and the Emergence of Modern Mathematics
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    Chapter 34 “Wahrheit suchen und Wahrheit bekennen.” Alexius Meinong: Skizze seines Lebens
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    Chapter 35 Einstein: The Formative Years,1879–1909
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Title
History of Philosophy of Science
Published by
Springer Netherlands, January 2002
DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-1785-4
ISBNs
978-9-04-815976-5, 978-9-40-171785-4
Editors

Michael Heidelberger, Friedrich Stadler

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Unknown 18 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Postgraduate 4 22%
Student > Bachelor 4 22%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 17%
Other 1 6%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 1 6%
Other 3 17%
Unknown 2 11%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 17%
Arts and Humanities 2 11%
Philosophy 2 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 11%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 6%
Other 7 39%
Unknown 1 6%