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Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2002

Series: Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook

ISBN (Hardback): 9789048159765

Full citation:

Michael Heidelberger, Friedrich Stadler (eds), History of philosophy of science, Berlin, Springer, 2002

History of philosophy of science

Contents

Neo-Kantian origins of modern empiricism

on the relation between Popper and the Vienna circle

Lothar Schäfer

43-55

Whewell and the scientists

science and philosophy of science in 19th century Britain

Laura J. Snyder

81-94

Physical pictures

engineering models circa 1914 and in Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Susan G. Sterrett

121-135

Physics without pictures?

the Ostwald-Boltzmann controversy, and Mach's (unnoticed) middle-way

Matthias Neuber

185-198

How metaphysical is "deepening the foundations"?

Hahn and Frank on Hilbert's axiomatic method

Michael Stöltzner

245-262

The epr experiment

a prelude to Bohr's reply to EPR

Michael Dickson

263-275

The French connection

conventionalism and the Vienna circle

Anastasios Brenner

277-286

Philosophy of biology around the Vienna circle

Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Joseph Henry Woodger and Philipp Frank

Veronika Hofer

325-333

B. F. Skinner and P.W. Bridgman

the frustration of a Wahlverwandtschaft

Gerald Holton

335-346

Vernunftkritik und Wissenschaft

Otto Neurath und der erste Wiener Kreis

Thomas Uebel, Massimo Ferrari

391-396

Karl Popper

the formative years, 1902–1945; politics and philosophy in interwar vienna

Malachi Hacohen, Karl Milford

399-404

"Wahrheit suchen und Wahrheit bekennen"

Alexius Meinong, Skizze seines Lebens

Evelyn Dölling, Johann C. Marek

408-413

Einstein

the formative years,1879–1909

Don Howard, John Stachel, Tilman Sauer

413-417