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Physics, Philosophy, and the Scientific Community - Essays in the philosophy and history of the natural sciences and mathematics In honor of Robert S. Cohen (Hardcover, 1995 ed.)
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Physics, Philosophy, and the Scientific Community - Essays in the philosophy and history of the natural sciences and mathematics In honor of Robert S. Cohen (Hardcover, 1995 ed.)
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 163
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In three volumes, a distinguished group of scholars from a variety
of disciplines in the natural and social sciences, the humanities
and the arts contribute essays in honor of Robert S. Cohen, on the
occasion of his 70th birthday. The range of the essays, as well as
their originality, and their critical and historical depth, pay
tribute to the extraordinary scope of Professor Cohen's
intellectual interests, as a scientist-philosopher and a humanist,
and also to his engagement in the world of social and political
practice. The essays presented in Physics, Philosophy, and the
Scientific Community (Volume I of Essays in Honor of Robert S.
Cohen) focus on philosophical and historical issues in contemporary
physics: on the origins and conceptual foundations of quantum
mechanics, on the reception and understanding of Bohr's and
Einstein's work, on the emergence of quantum electrodynamics, and
on some of the sharp philosophical and scientific issues that arise
in current scientific practice (e.g. in superconductivity
research). In addition, several essays deal with critical issues
within the philosophy of science, both historical and contemporary:
e.g. with Cartesian notions of mechanism in the philosophy of
biology; with the language and logic of science - e.g. with new
insights concerning the issue of a physicalistic' language in the
arguments of Neurath, Carnap and Wittgenstein; with the notion of
elementary logic'; and with rational and non-rational elements in
the history of science. Two original contributions to the history
of mathematics and some studies in the comparative sociology of
science round off this outstanding collection.
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