Table of Contents
A. History of Philosophy of Science - New Trends and Perspectives. I. On the Notion of ‘Law'; M.L.D. Chiara, R. Giuntini. Hume on Sense Impressions and Objects; M. Frasca-Spada. Kant, Kuhn, and the Rationality of Science; M. Friedman. Neo-Kantian Origins of Modern Empiricism: on the Relation between Popper and the Vienna Circle; L. Schaäfer. II. Concerning some Philosophical Reasons for the Recourse of Mathematics in the Study of Physical Phenomena in the Thought of Newton and Leibniz; W. Simonsen. Kant on the Apriority of Causal Laws; L. Anderson. Whewell and the Scientists: Science and Philosophy of Science in 19th Century Britain; L.J. Snyder. Brouwer's Argument for the Unity of Scientific Theories; M. Van Atten. The Role of Models in Boltzmann's Lectures on Natural Philosophy (1903-1906); N. De Courtenay. Physical Pictures: Engineering Models circa 1914 and in Wittgenstein's Tractatus; S.G. Sterrett. The Modern History of Scientific Explanation; G. Hardcastle. From the Values of Scientific Philosphy to the Value Neutrality of the Philosophy of Science; D.J. Stump. III. Helmholtz's Methodology of Sensory Science, the Zeichentheorie, and Physical Models of Hearing Mechanisms; P.J. McDonald. Physics without Pictures? The Ostwald-Boltzmann Controversy, and Mach's (Unnoticed) Middle-Way; M. Neuber. Ludwig Boltzmann's Mathematical Argument for Atomism; T. Wilholt; IV. Hilbert's Program to Axiomatize Physics (in Analogy to Geometry) and its Impact on Schlick, Carnap and other Members of the Vienna Circle; U. Majer. Hopes and Disappointments in Hilbert's Axiomatic ‘Foundations of Physics'; T. Sauer. Mathematical Physics and Philosophy of Physics (with SpecialConsideration of J. von Neumann's Work); M. Rédei. How Metaphysical is ‘Deepening the Foundations'> Hahn and Frank on Hilbert's Axiomatic Method; M. Stöltzner. The EPR Experiment: a Prelude to Borh's Reply to EPR; M. Dickson. V. The French Connection: Conventionalism and the Vienna Circle; A. Brenner. Carnap on Logic and Experience; W. Houkes. Affinities between Fleck and Neurath; A. Koterski. Critical Rationalism, Logical Positivism, and the Post-structuralist Conundrum: Reconsidering the Neurath-Popper Debate; M. Hacohen. Philosophy of Biology around the Vienna Circle: Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Joseph Henry Woodger and Philip Frank; V. Hofer. B. General Part. Report – Documentation. B.F. Skinner and P.W. Bridgman: the Frustration of a Wahlverwandtschaft; G. Holton. Sociology of Science, Rule Following and Forms of Life; D. Stern. Review Essays. The Philosopher without Qualities; A.W. Carus. The Poverty of ‘Constructivist' History (and Policy Advice); T. Uebel. Reviews. Vernunftkritik und Wissenschaft. Otto Neurath und der erste Wiener Kreis; T. Uebel. The Social Origins of Modern Science; E. Zilsel. Karl Popper: The formative Years 1902-1545; Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienne; M. Hacohen. Bolzano's Philosophy and the Emergence of Modern Mathematics; P. Rusnock. ‘Wahrheit suchen und Wahrheit bekennen.' Alexius Meinong: Skizze seines Lebens, E. Dölling. Einstein: The Formative Years 1879-1909; D. Howard, J. Stachel. Activities of the IVC. Activities 2001. Preview 2002. Obituaries. Index of Names.
