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| BOOK I |
INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY
OF SCIENCE |
50 pages |
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Organizational Overview
Romanticism Positivism
Contemporary Pragmatism
Computational Philosophy of
Science
Synchronic Metalinguistic
Analysis
Syntax
Syntactical Rules
Semantics
Traditional Positivist
Semantics
The Positivist
Analytic–Synthetic Semantical
Dichotomy
The Positivist
Theory-Observation Semantical
Dichotomy
Contemporary Pragmatist
Semantics
Rejection of the Positivist
Observation-Theory Dichotomy
Rejection of Positivist Meaning
Invariance Thesis
Rejection of the Positivist
Analytic-Synthetic Dichotomy
Traditional Romanticist
Semantics
Semantical Rules
Univocal and Equivocal Terms
Relativized Semantics
Clear and Vague Meaning
Analysis of Semantical Change
vs “Holism”
Semantical State Descriptions
Scientific Realism
Relativized Ontology
Causality Pragmatics and Theory Language Pragmatic Definition of the Language
of Test Design and Observation
Semantic Individuation of
Theories
Diachronic Comparative Static
Semantical Analysis
Mathematical Language in
Science
Universal Quantification in
Mathematical Language in Science
Semantics of Mathematical
Language in Science
Ontology of Mathematical
Language in Science
Aside on the Ontological Issue
in Quantum Theory
Dynamic Diachronic
Metalinguistic Analysis The Institutionalized Aim of Science
Institutional Change
Scientific Discovery
Scientific Criticism
The Logic of Testing
Empirical Decidability and
Semantics
Empirical Underdetermination
Scientific Pluralism
Nonempirical Linguistic
Constraints
Scientific Explanation
Summary
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| BOOK II |
ERNST MACH AND PIERRE
DUHEM ON
PHYSICAL THEORY |
25 pages |
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Mach's
Phenomenalism
Mach's Philosophy of Science
Mach's History of Mechanics
Duhem on Physical Theory and
Metaphysics
Duhem's Stratified Semantics
for Physics
Duhem's Philosophy of Science
Duhem's History of Physics
The New Physics vs the Old
Philosophy
Comment and Conclusion
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| BOOK III |
RUDOLF CARNAP
ON SEMANTICAL SYSTEMS
AND W.V.O. QUINE'S PRAGMATIST CRITIQUE |
75 pages |
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| Logical
Constructionalism
Einstein and Mathematical vs.
Physical Geometry
The Aufbau
and "Rational Reconstruction"
Logical Syntax of Language
Semantical Systems: Definitions and
Characteristics
Semantical Systems: Ontological
vs. Linguistic Issues
Semantical Systems: Physics and
the Reduction of Theories
Semantical Systems: Probability
and Induction Semantical Systems: Information
Theory
Shreider's Semantic Theory of
Information
The Philosophy of Science
Hempel's Critique of Analyticity
Carnap's Reply to Hempel
Quine's Pragmatist Critiques
Quine's Critique of Reductionism
Quine's Critique of Analyticity
Quine's Rejection of First
Philosophy
Comment and Conclusion
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| BOOK IV |
WERNER HEISENBERG
AND THE
SEMANTICS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS |
50 pages |
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Heisenberg's Discovery and Einstein's Semantical Views
Heisenberg's Discovery and Einstein's Ontological Criteria
Bohr's Influence on Heisenberg and Issues with Einstein
Semantical Revision and Heisenberg’s Doctrine of Closed-off Theories
Bohr's "Forms of Perception" and Neo-Kantianism
On Scientific Revolutions
Heisenberg’s Philosophy of Science
Comment and Conclusion
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| BOOK V |
KARL POPPER
ON SCIENTIFIC CRITICISM
SEMANTICS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS |
40 pages |
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Einstein's Influence and the Falsificationist
Thesis of Criticism, Explanation, Information, and the Growth of Science
Against Psychologism, Induction, and Naturalistic Semantics
On Computers, Induction Machines, and Scientific Discovery
The Schism in Physics and Metaphysical Research Programmes
Lande's New Foundations of Quantum
Physics Popper's
Particle-Propensity Interpretation of Quantum Theory On Crucial Experiments and Scientific Revolutions
The Philosophy of Science
Comment and Conclusion
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| BOOK VI |
THOMAS KUHN
ON REVOLUTION AND
PAUL FEYERABEND ON ANARCHY |
100 pages |
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Conant On Prejudice And The Dynamic View Of Science
Kuhn’s Aristotle Experience
Kuhn on the Copernican Revolution
Kuhn on the Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The Evolution of Kuhn’s Philosophy
Popper's Criticism of Kuhn’s Normal Science Thesis
Feyerabend on Theory Proliferation vs. Consensus Paradigm
Shapere's Criticism of Kuhn's Concept of Paradigm
Kuhn Replies Kuhn, Normal Science, and the Academic Sociologists
Kuhn’s Linguistic Analysis of Incommensurability
Kuhn's Philosophy of Science
Nagel and Feyerabend on Meaning Variance The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Feyerabend on Semantic
Incommensurability Feyerabend on Scientific Anarchy
Feyerabend on Quantum Theory
Feyerabend on Relativism, Historicism, and Realism
Feyerabend's Criticism of Popper
Feyerabend's Philosophy of Science
Comments and Conclusion |
| BOOK VII |
RUSSELL
HANSON, DAVID BOHM, AND OTHERS
ON THE SEMANTICS OF DISCOVERY |
80 pages |
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Bohm's
Early Copenhagen Views
Bohm's Agenda for Future Microphysics
Bohm's Hidden-Variable Interpretation of Quantum Theory
Bohm’s Critique of Heisenberg’s Copenhagen Interpretation
Bohm and Bell on the EPR Experiment and Nonlocality
Bohm on Perception and Metaphor in Scientific Discovery
Bohm on Mathematics and Scientific Discovery Bohm’s Philosophy of Science Hanson on the Copenhagen
Interpretation and Scientific Discovery
Peirce, Retroductive Logic, and Semantical Constraints in
Discovery Hanson on Perception, Observation and
Theory Hanson's
Philosophy of Science
Hesse on Models and Analogy
Hesse on Metaphor
Comment and Conclusion
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| BOOK VIII |
HERBERT
SIMON, PAUL THAGARD AND OTHERS
ON DISCOVERY SYSTEMS |
165 pages |
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Thagard’s Psychologistic
Computational Philosophy of Science
Thagard on Conceptual Change, Scientific Revolutions, and System
PI Thagard
on Discovery by Analogy and Systems ACME and ARCS
Thagard on Criticism by “Explanatory Coherence”
Thagard on Explanation and the Aim of Science
Herbert Simon and Logic Theorist
Neoclassical Maximizing Rationality and Weber's Ideal Types
Simon's Postulate of Bounded Rationality and "Satisficing"
Bounded Rationality, Institutionalism, and Functionalism Human Problem Solving, Cognitive
Psychology and Heuristics
On Scientific Discovery and Philosophy of Science
The Theory of Discovery Systems
BACON and Other Discovery Systems
Simon's Philosophy of Science
Muth's Rational Expectations "Hypothesis" Haavelmo's Structural-Equations
Agenda And Its Early Critics
Mitchell’s Institutionalist Critique
Muth’s Rationalist Expectations Agenda
Rejection of Expectations Data and Evolution of VAR Models Litterman's BVAR Models and Discovery
System Hickey's
Metascience or "Logical Pragmatism"
Hickey’s Linguistic Analysis
Hickey’s Functional Analysis
Hickey's METAMODEL Discovery System Parsons’
Romantic Sociology
Habermas on Weber
Merton’s Critique of Parsons
Lundberg’s Positivist Sociology
The METAMODEL System Applied to Sociology
A Pragmatist Critique of Academic Sociology’s Weltanschauung
The “Last Sociologist”
Sonquist on Simulating the Research Analyst with AID
Comment and Conclusion
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