
Philosophical Problems of the Internal and External Worlds
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John Earman is University Professor in the History and Philosopy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of numerous books including: Hume's Abject Failure: The Argument Against Miracles; World Enough and Space-time: Absolute vs. Relational Theories of Space and Time; Bayes or Bust: A Critical Examination of Bayesian Confirmation Theory; Bangs, Crunches, Whimpers and Shrieks: Singularities and Acausalities in Relativistic Spacetimes.
Allen Janis (Editor)
Allen I. Janis is professor emeritus in the department of physics and astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh.
Gerald J. Massey (Editor)
Gerald J. Massey is Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. From 1988 to 1997 he was director of the University of Pittsburgh's renowned Center for Philosophy of Science. For the past several years he has been investigating the philosophical implications of the sciences of animals in an effort to create a new field that he calls philosophical ethology. In 1997, German President Roman Herzog conferred on him the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse) for his contributions to German-American Philosophy.
Nicholas Rescher (Editor)
Nicholas Rescher was Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh and co-chairman of the Center for Philosophy of Science. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he served as president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, the Leibniz Society of North America, the Charles S. Peirce Society, the American Catholic Philosophical Association, and the Metaphysical Society of America. Rescher was the author or editor of more than one hundred books, including Ignorance (On the Wider Implications of Deficient Knowledge), Philosophical Inquiries: An Introduction to Problems of Philosophy, and A Journey through Philosophy in 101 Anecdotes.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Space, Time, Cosmology
- 1. Physical Force or Geometrical Curvature? : Einstein, Grünbaum, and the Measurability of Physical Geometry / Martin Carrier
- 2. Substantivalism and the Hole Argument / Carl Hoefer and Nancy Cartwright
- 3. The Cosmic Censorship Hypothesis / John Earman
- 4. From Time to Time: Remarks on the Difference Between the Time of Nature and the Time of Man / Jurgen Mittelstrass
- 5. The Conventionality of Simultaneity / Michael Redhead
- 6. The Meaning of General Covariance: The Hole Story / John Stachel
- Scientific Rationality and Methodology
- 7. Sciences and Pseudosciences: An Attempt at a New Form of Demarcation / Robert E. Butts
- 8. The End of Epistemology? / Paul Feyerabend
- 9. Seven Theses on Thought Experiments / Paul Humphreys
- 10. On the Alleged Temporal Anisotropy of Explanation: A Letter to Professor Adolf Grünbaum / Wesley C. Salmon
- 11. A New Theory of Reduction in Physics / Erhard Scheibe
- 12. Analogy by Similarity in Hyper-Carnapian Inductive Logic / Brian Skyrms
- 13. Capacities and Invariance / James Woodward
- 14. Falsification, Rationality, and the Duhem Problem: Grünbaum versus Bayes / John Worrall
- Philosophy of Psychiatry
- 15. The Dynamics of Theory Change in Psychoanalysis / Morris Eagle
- 16. Philosophers on Freudianism: An Examination of Replies to Grünbaum's Foundations / Edward Erwin
- 17. How Freud Left Science / Clark Glymour
- 18. Isomorphism and the Modeling of Brain-Mind State / 1- Allan Hobson
- 19. Psychoanalytic Conceptions of the Borderline Personality: A Sociocultural Alternative / Theodore Millon
- 20. On a Contribution to a Future Scientific Study of Dream Interpretation / Rosemarie Sand
- Freedom and Determinism
- Science and Religion
- 21. Indeterminism and the Freedom of the Will / Arthur Fine
- 22. Adolf Grünbaum and the Compatibilist Thesis / John Watkins
- 23. Creation, Conservation, and the Big Bang / Philip L. Quinn
- Moral Problems
- 24. Moral Obligation and the Refugee / Nicholas Rescher
- Name Index
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