|
| Contents |
(Retrieval for display and downloading may take several minutes
depending on the number of pages and your connection speed) |
| BOOK I |
INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY
OF SCIENCE |
82 pages |
|
|
Chapter I -
Overview
1.01 Aim of Philosophy of Science
1.02 Computational Philosophy of
Science 1.03 Two Perspectives on
Language 1.04 Dimensions of Language
1.05 Classifications of Functional
Topics 1.06 Classification of Modern
Philosophies
Chapter II – Three Modern
Philosophies
2.01 Romanticism 2.02 Positivism
2.03 Contemporary Pragmatism
Chapter III - Philosophy of
Language
3.01 Synchronic and Diachronic
Analysis 3.02 Object Language and
Metalanguage 3.03 Dimensions of
Language 3.04 Syntactical Dimension
3.05 Syntactical Rules 3.06
Mathematical Language 3.07 Logical
Quantification in Mathematics 3.08
Semantical Dimension 3.09 Nominalist
vs. Conceptualist Semantics 3.10
Naturalistic vs. Artifactual
Semantics 3.11 Romantic Semantics
3.12 Positivist Semantics 3.13
Positivist Thesis of Meaning
Variance 3.14 Positivist
Analytic-Synthetic Dichotomy 3.15
Positivist Observation-Theory
Dichotomy 3.16 Contemporary
Pragmatist Semantics 3.17 Pragmatist
Semantics Illustrated 3.18 Rejection
of the Observation-Theory Dichotomy
3.19 Rejection of Meaning Invariance
3.20 Rejection of the
Analytic-Synthetic Dichotomy 3.21
Semantical Rules 3.22 Componential
vs. Wholistic Semantics 3.23
Componential Artifactual Semantics
Illustrated 3.24 Semantic Values
3.25 Univocal and Equivocal Terms
3.26 Signification and Supposition
3.27 Aside on Metaphor 3.28 Clear
and Vague Meaning 3.29 Semantics of
Mathematical Language 3.30
Semantical State Descriptions 3.31
Diachronic Comparative-Static
Analysis 3.32 Dynamic Diachronic
Analysis 3.33 Computational
Philosophy of Science 3.34 An
Interpretation Issue 3.35
Ontological Dimension 3.36
Metaphysical and Scientific Realism
3.37 Ontological Relativity Defined
3.38 Ontological Relativity
Illustrated 3.39 Causality 3.40
Ontology of Mathematical Language
3.41 Pragmatic Dimension 3.42
Semantic Definitions of Theory
Language 3.43 Pragmatic Definition
of Theory Language 3.44 Pragmatic
Definition of Test-Design Language
3.45 Pragmatic Definition of
Observation Language 3.46
Observation and Test Execution 3.47
Scientific Professions 3.48 Semantic
Individuation of Theories
Chapter IV – Philosophy of
Science Topics
4.01 Institutionalized Aim of
Science 4.02 Positivist Aim 4.03
Romantic Aim 4.04 More Recent Ideas
4.05 Aim of Maximizing “Explanatory
Coherence” 4.06 Contemporary
Pragmatist Aim 4.07 Institutional
Change 4.08 Philosophy’s Cultural
Lag 4.09 Cultural Lags among
Sciences 4.10 Scientific Discovery
4.11 Discovery Systems 4.12 Types of
Theory Development 4.13 Examples of
Successful Discovery Systems 4.14
Scientific Criticism 4.15 Logic of
Empirical Testing 4.16 Test Logic
Illustrated 4.17 Semantics of
Empirical Testing 4.18 Test-Design
Revision 4.19 Empirical
Underdetermination 4.20 Scientific
Pluralism 4.21 Scientific Truth 4.22
Nonempirical Criteria 4.23 The “Best
Explanation” Criteria 4.24
Nonempirical Linguistic Constraints
4.25 Cognition Constraint 4.26
Communication Constraint 4.27
Scientific Explanation
|
|
| BOOK II |
ERNST MACH AND PIERRE
DUHEM ON
PHYSICAL THEORY |
25 pages |
|
|
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
|
|
| BOOK III |
RUDOLF CARNAP
ON SEMANTICAL SYSTEMS
AND W.V.O. QUINE'S PRAGMATIST CRITIQUE |
75 pages |
|
| 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
|
|
| BOOK IV |
WERNER HEISENBERG
AND THE
SEMANTICS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS |
50 pages |
|
|
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
|
|
| BOOK V |
KARL POPPER
ON SCIENTIFIC CRITICISM
SEMANTICS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS |
40 pages |
|
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
|
| BOOK VI |
THOMAS KUHN
ON REVOLUTION AND
PAUL FEYERABEND ON ANARCHY |
100 pages |
|
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 |
|
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
|
| BOOK VIII |
HERBERT
SIMON, PAUL THAGARD AND OTHERS
ON DISCOVERY SYSTEMS |
165 pages |
|
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
|
| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
|
18 pages |
All books are downloadable in Adobe .pdf
Format.
