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Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 1982

ISBN (Hardback): 9789024732982

Full citation:

Guttorm Fløistad (ed), La philosophie contemporaine / Contemporary philosophy, Berlin, Springer, 1982

La philosophie contemporaine / Contemporary philosophy

Contents

Introduction

Guttorm Fløistad

1-17

The erklären-verstehen controversy in the philosophy of the natural and human sciences

Karl-Otto Apel

19-49

Causation and teleology in contemporary philosophy of science

Alexander Rosenberg

51-86

Paradigms

Theodore Kisiel

87-110

Rationality

Jon Elster

111-131

The revival of causality

Mario Bunge

133-155

Statistical explanation

Ilkka Niiniluoto

157-187

Simulation and self-organization of mind

Stein Bråten

189-218

Philosophy of quantum mechanics

Maria L. Dalla Chiara, P. A. Metelli

219-247

Some central problems in the philosophy of space and time

Roger B. Angel

249-279

Philosophy and biology

David L. Hull

281-316

Issues relating to the meaning of psychology as a science

Amedeo P. Giorgi

317-342

The right not to be hungry

Amartya Sen

343-360

Philosophy of technology

Friedrich Rapp

361-412

Le structuralisme francais

Peter Kemp

413-452

Hermeneutics

Richard Palmer

453-505