Science, politics, and social practice : essays on Marxism and science, philosophy of culture and the social sciences : in honor of Robert S. Cohen
"In Science, Politics and Social Practice (Volume II of Essays in honor of Robert S. Cohen), an international group of scholars - philosophers, sociologists, historians, and political scientists - discuss issues at the cutting edge of contemporary social and political thought, and its bearing on science. Several essays discuss the relations of Marxism to science, and specifically, to the philosophies of science of Carnap and Popper, as well as Soviet Marxism, and the effects of Stalinism on Soviet science. There are also essays on the philosophy and methodology of the social sciences, on questions of method and aim in historical narrative, on the issue of cultural relativism, and more."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©1995
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht [Netherlands], ©1995
ix, 395 pages ; 24 cm.
9780792329916, 9780792329893, 0792329910, 0792329899
30780241
A: Philosophical and Historical Issues in Contemporary Physics. Experiment vis-a-vis Theory in Superconductivity Research; J.L. Bromberg. Philosophy and the Birth of Quantum Theory; C. Chevalley. Identity Questions from Quantum Theory; M.L. Dalla Chiara, G. Toraldo di Francia. Some Reminiscences of Robert Cohen's Physics Department; D.S. Edmonds. Einstein in the Land of Nobel: an Episode in the Interplay of Science, Politics, Epistemology and Popular Culture; A. Elzinga. Did They just Misunderstood Each Other? Logical Empiricists and Bohr's Complementarity Argument; U. Roseberg. Physics, Community and the Crisis in Physical Theory; S.s. Schweber. B: Critical Questions in the Philosophy and History of the Natural Sciences. Contemporary Philosophy of Science as a Thinly Masked Antidemocratic Apologetics; J. Agassi. A Philosopher Looks at Science; Tian Yo Cao. Animal Mechanism and the Cartesian Vision of Nature; M. Grene. Michael Polanyi and the History of Science; G. Holton. Cosmological Outlooks and Technological Transfer: A Comparative View from Eastern Periphery; S. Nakyama. Some Questions concerning Limitations of the Range of Validity of Kuhn's Model of the History of Science; A. Polikarov. Historical Epistemology and Interdisciplinarity; J. Renn. American Creativity Research in a Bipolar World: A Look at One Chapter in World History and History of Science; M. Wallner. C: Logic, Language and Scientific Rationality. Rational and Nonrational Elements in the History of Science; K. Berka. Dirt and Crystal: Neurath on the Language of Science; R. Haller. What is Elementary Logic? Independence-Friendly Logic as the True Core Area of Logic; J. Hintikka. Physicalism in Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle; T.E. Uebel. D: History of Mathematics. Conic Sections and Burning Mirrors: An Example of the Application of Ancient and Classical Mathematics; R. Rashed. Some Sociological Problems in the History of Mathematics; D.J. Struik. Index.