| The Scientific Enterprise: The Bar-Hillel Colloquium: Studies in History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science, Volume 4 Contributor(s): Ullmann-Margalit, Edna (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0792319923 ISBN-13: 9780792319924 Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1992 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | History - Philosophy | Movements - Pragmatism - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Dewey: 509 |
| LCCN: 92031007 |
| Series: Mathematics and Its Applications. East European Series |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6" W x 9" (1.40 lbs) 316 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The essays and commentaries presented here are intended to strike a balance between the disciplines to which the Bar-Hillel Colloquium (formerly the Israel Colloquium) is dedicated. The historical and sociological vantage point is addressed in Krammick's and Mali's treatment of Priestley, in Vicker's 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. |