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A collection of essays that pay tribute to the Professor Cohen's intellectual interests, as a scientist-philosopher and a humanist, and also to his engagement in the world of social and political practice. These essays focus on philosophical and historical issues in contemporary physics, and deal with issues within the philosophy of science.
Contents
A: Philosophical and Historical Issues in Contemporary Physics. Experiment vis-a-vis Theory in Superconductivity Research; J.L. Bromberg. Philosophy and the Birth of Quantum Theory; C. Chevalley. Identity Questions from Quantum Theory; M.L. Dalla Chiara, G. Toraldo di Francia. Some Reminiscences of Robert Cohen's Physics Department; D.S. Edmonds. Einstein in the Land of Nobel: an Episode in the Interplay of Science, Politics, Epistemology and Popular Culture; A. Elzinga. Did They just Misunderstood Each Other? Logical Empiricists and Bohr's Complementarity Argument; U. Roseberg. Physics, Community and the Crisis in Physical Theory; S.s. Schweber. B: Critical Questions in the Philosophy and History of the Natural Sciences. Contemporary Philosophy of Science as a Thinly Masked Antidemocratic Apologetics; J. Agassi. A Philosopher Looks at Science; Tian Yo Cao. Animal Mechanism and the Cartesian Vision of Nature; M. Grene. Michael Polanyi and the History of Science; G. Holton. Cosmological Outlooks and Technological Transfer: A Comparative View from Eastern Periphery; S. Nakyama. Some Questions concerning Limitations of the Range of Validity of Kuhn's Model of the History of Science; A. Polikarov. Historical Epistemology and Interdisciplinarity; J. Renn. American Creativity Research in a Bipolar World: A Look at One Chapter in World History and History of Science; M. Wallner. C: Logic, Language and Scientific Rationality. Rational and Nonrational Elements in the History of Science; K. Berka. Dirt and Crystal: Neurath on the Language of Science; R. Haller. What is Elementary Logic? Independence-Friendly Logic as the True Core Area of Logic; J. Hintikka. Physicalism in Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle; T.E. Uebel. D: History of Mathematics. Conic Sections and Burning Mirrors: An Example of the Application of Ancient and Classical Mathematics; R. Rashed. Some Sociological Problems in the History of Mathematics; D.J. Struik. Index.
