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Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2017

Series: Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook

ISBN (Hardback): 9783319532578

Full citation:

Friedrich Stadler (ed), Integrated history and philosophy of science, Berlin, Springer, 2017

Integrated history and philosophy of science

Contents

Metaphysics and the unity of science

two hundred years of controversy

Richard Creath

3-15

Saving models from phenomena

a cautionary tale from membrane and cell biology

Axel Gelfert, Jacob Mok

17-30

My touchstone puzzles

W.D. Hamilton's work on social wasps in the 1960s

Guido Caniglia

31-42

The first century of cell theory

from structural units to complex living systems

Jane Maienschein

43-54

"Beyond the conventional boundaries of physics"

on relating Ernst Mach's philosophy to his teaching and research in the 1870s and 1880s

Richard Staley

69-80

Scientific inference and the earth's interior

Dorothy Wrinch and Harold Jeffreys at Cambridge

Teru Miyake

81-91

Values, facts and methodologies

a case study in philosophy of economics

Thomas Uebel

93-107

Carnap's Weltanschauung and the Jugendbewegung

the story of an omitted chapter

Adam Tuboly

129-144