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The unusual ambition of this volume is to engage scientists, historians, and philosophers in a common quest to delineate the structure of the creative thinking responsible for major advances in physical theory.

Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Allen G. Debus

Ever since Euclid's ancient geometry, we have thought of bodies occupying parts of this space (including our own bodies), the space of our practical orientations (our 'moving abouts'), as having three dimensions.

Philosophy of biology has a long and honourable history. They have shown that many stimulating problems emerge when analytic skills are turned towards the life-sciences, particularly if one does not feeI con strained to stay only with theoretical parts of biology, but can range over to more medical parts of the spectrum.

Incongruent counterparts are objects that are perfectly similar except for being mirror images of each other, such as left and right human hands.

Incongruent counterparts are objects that are perfectly similar except for being mirror images of each other, such as left and right human hands.

In July 2006, a major international conference was held at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada, to celebrate the career and work of a remarkable man of letters.

It includes essays and lectures on philosophical aspects of the European witch hunt, on scientific rationality and methodology, and on the relationships between science and philosophy exhibited in the writings of such historically significant figures as Leibniz, D'Alembert, Hume, Kant, Carnap and Kuhn.

Discusses the Kantian theory of scientific knowledge from the perspective of analytical philosophy and philosophy of empirical and mathematical sciences. This book is intended for research workers, specialists and scholars in the fields of epistemology, philosophy of science and history of philosophy.

It is a book about the Bernards of the world who would have us believe that there is a humanly uncreated world existing en Boi that freely dis closes its forever fixed ontology, even though they too must accept that -many of the worlds we make as we try to under stand ourselves are counterfeit.

The remaining four are based upon materials previously published in learned journals or anthologies. (However, these previously published papers have been revised and, generally, expanded for inclusion here.) Detailed acknowl edgement of prior publications is made in the notes to the relevant articles.

The concept of likeness to truth, like that of truth itself, is fundamental to a realist conception of inquiry.

These remarks preface two volumes consisting of the proceedings of the Third International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science.

Or even that in his path-breaking accounts of algebra, of !)escartes, of Kant and of Russell, he showed in new and profound ways how the histories of science and philosophy could be used to illuminate each other. Always curious, he delights in new facts and new experiences, and continually heightens the perception of those around him.

According to platonists, entities such as numbers, sets, propositions and properties are abstract objects. But abstract objects lack causal powers and a location in space and time, so how could we ever come to know of the existence of such impotent and remote objects?

This volume collects together a number of important papers concerning both the method of abstraction generally and the use of particular abstraction principles to reconstruct central areas of mathematics along logicist lines.

Ever since Euclid's ancient geometry, we have thought of bodies occupying parts of this space (including our own bodies), the space of our practical orientations (our 'moving abouts'), as having three dimensions.

Accordingly, some of the parts of a philosophical building will have to be taken from the literature on the subject as 'ready made' or 'semi-finished' elements, while others will be argued for in the course of building.

Proceedings of an International Research Colloquium held at the University of Western Ontario, 10-13 May 1973.

Proceedings of an International Research Colloquium held at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, 10-13 May 1973

Proceedings of an International Rersearch Colloquium held at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, 10-13 May, 1973

In 1973 a workshop was held at The University of Western Ontario on topics of common interest to philosophers and linguists. The editors thank the officers of The University of Western Ontario for making the workshop possible and Pauline Campbell for making the workshop work.

Music and Science in the Age of Galileo features twelve new essays by leading specialists in the fields of musicology, history of science, astronomy, philosophy, and instrument building that explore the relations between music and the scientific culture of Galileo's time.

With publication of the present volume, The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science enters its second phase.

But while Quine's program of naturalization called the attention of philosophers to empirical psychology, his conception of psychology was inspired by an austere behaviorism which shunned the mentalism of intentional psychology in the Brentanian and phenomenological tradition.

In 1973 a workshop was held at The University of Western Ontario on topics of common interest to philosophers and linguists. The editors thank the officers of The University of Western Ontario for making the workshop possible and Pauline Campbell for making the workshop work.

With publication of the present volume, The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science enters its second phase.