Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science VI
Published on 1. January 1982
871 pages
978-0-08-096030-2 (ISBN)
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Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science VI presents the results of recent research into the foundations of science. The volume contains invited papers presented at the Congress, covering the areas of Logic, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Biological Sciences and the Humanities.
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Content
- Front Cover
- Logic, Methodology and Philoshy of Scinence VI
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Officers of the Division
- Steering Committee
- Organising Committee
- List of Donors
- PART 0. PLENARY LECTURES
- Chapter 1. The Rôle of Mathematics in Present-Day Science
- Chapter 2. "Scientific" History and Traditional History
- Chapter 3. The Rôle of Mathematics in Economics
- Chapter 4. Work of Paul Bernays and Kurt Gödel
- PART 1. PROOF THEORY AND FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS
- Chapter 5. A Survey of p1/2-logic
- Chapter 6. Logical Approach to Programming
- Chapter 7. Admissibility in Proof Theory
- a Survey
- Chapter 8. Symposium on Constructivity in Mathematics:Introductory Remarks
- Chapter 9. Applications of Constructivity
- Chapter 10. Constructive Mathematics and Computer Programming
- PART 2. MODEL THEORY AND ITS APPLICATIONS
- Chapter 11. Crumbly Spaces
- Chapter 12. Residue Fields of Models of P
- Chapter 13. Number of Models in Complete Varieties
- Chapter 14. On Algebraically Closed Models of Theories of Commutative Rings
- PART 3. RECURSION THEORY AND THEORY OF COMPUTATION
- Chapter 15. Small Degrees in Ordinary Recursion Theory
- Chapter 16. Non-Obtainable Continuous Functionals
- Chapter 17. Dynamic Logic
- Chapter 18. Four Test Problems in Generalized Recursion Theory
- PART 4. AXIOMATIC SET THEORY
- Chapter 19. Ordinal Games and Their Applications
- Chapter 20. The Simplest Counterexample to Compactness in the Constructible Universe
- PART 5. PHILOSOPHICAL LOGIC
- Chapter 21. Anderson and Belnap, and Lewy on Entailment
- Chapter 22. Truth-Value Gaps
- Chapter 23. Semantics of Generalized State Descriptions
- Chapter 24. Referential Matrix Semantics for Propositional Calculi
- PART 6. GENERAL METHODOLOGY OF SCIENCE
- Chapter 25. Realism in the Natural Sciences
- Chapter 26. Possible Worlds and the Ontology of a Scientific Theory
- Chapter 27. Difficulties for Realism in the Philosophy of Science
- Chapter 28. Metatheoretical Dilemmas of the Social Sciences. The Case of Sociology
- PART 7. FOUNDATIONS OF PROBABILITY AND INDUCTION
- Chapter 29. Probability: The Different Views and Terminologies in a Critical Analysis
- Chapter 30. Paradoxes of Conglomerability and Fiducial Inference
- Chapter 31. Review and Analysis of Some Inconsistencies Related to Improper Priors and Finite Additivity
- PART 8. FOUNDATIONS AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES
- Chapter 32. On the Problem of Irreversibility in Theoretical Physics
- Chapter 33. Probability in Classical and Quantum Physics
- Chapter 34. The Scope and Limits of Scientific Change
- PART 9. FOUNDATIONS AND PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY
- Chapter 35. Aspects of Theory Construction in Biology
- Chapter 36. The Reality of Biological Species: A Conceptualistic and a Systemic Approach
- Chapter 37. Some Connections Between Ascriptions of Goals and Assumptions of Adaptiveness
- PART 10. FOUNDATIONS AND PHILOSOPHY OF PSYCHOLOGY
- Chapter 38. Functionalism
- Chapter 39. The Implications of Land's Theory of Colour Vision
- Chapter 40. Intentionality and Behaviorism
- Chapter 41. New Perspectives on Cognitive Psychology
- PART 11. FOUNDATIONS AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
- Chapter 42. The Equilibrium Concept in Economics
- Chapter 43. Symposium on the Theory of Rights and the Theory of Social Choice
- Chapter 44. Liberalism, Independent Rights and the Pareto Principle
- PART 12. FOUNDATIONS AND PHILOSOPHY OF LINGUISTICS
- Chapter 45. Mathematical Analysis of Language
- Chapter 46. Formal Capacity of Montague Grammars
- Chapter 47. On Logico-Linguistics : Structure, Transformation and Paraphrase
- Chapter 48. Sociolinguistic Method and Linguistic Theory
- PART 13. HISTORY OF LOGIC, METHODOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
- Chapter 49. On tbe Methodological Problems of the History of Science: An Analytical Approach
- Chapter 50. On the Change of the Interrelations Between Science and Epistemology of Science in the Process of their Historical Developement
- Chapter 51. On the Origin and Subsequent Applications of the Concept of the Lindenbaum Algebra
- Chapter 52. Frege's Notion of "Bedeutung"
- Chapter 53. From Leibniz to Frege: Mathematical Logic between 1679 and 1879
- PART 14. FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE ETHICS OF SCIENCE
- Chapter 54. Rational Allocation of Resources to Scientific Research
- Chapter 55. Comments on Patrick Suppes's 'Rational Allocation of Resources to Scientific Research'
- Chapter 56. Allocation of the Resources to Scientific Research. A Comment to the Report by P. Suppes
- Chapter 57. On Genetic Engineering, the Epistemology of Risk, and the Value of Life
- Chapter 58. Alleged Threats from Genetics
- Programme
- Index of Names
