Models
Representation and the Scientific Understanding
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science; 48;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1979
- Publisher Springer Netherlands
- Date of Publication 31 October 1979
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9789027707369
- Binding Hardback
- See also 9789027709479
- No. of pages398 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 776 g
- Language English
- Illustrations XXVI, 398 p. 0
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Marx Wartofsky has been working for many years within an unusual confluence of philosophical problems. He brings to these intersecting problems his comprehensive intelligence, at once imaginative and rigorous, analytic and historical. He is a philosopher's philosopher, but also Everyman's. Wartofsky is philosopher of the natural and the social sciences, of perception, esthetics and the creative arts, of the 18th century French and the 19th century Germans, of politics and morality, ofthe methods and morals of medicine, and it is plain, of all human existence. To a colleague, he seems Jack-of-all-philosophical-trades, and master of them too. The reader soon will learn that Wartofsky is a genial, lucid and relaxed philosophical companion, deeply serious but without noticeable anxiety. I need not highlight these selected epistemological papers gathered as, and about, Models, since Wartofsky's own introductory remarks are helpful and stimulating in that respect. I need only, after 21 years of friendship and collaboration with him, warn the reader to beware of how profound and provocative these papers will show themselves to be beneath their good-humored and swiftly-flowing surface. And I must publicly note the pleasure with which I welcome Marx Wartofsky's volume to our Boston Studies. Boston University R.S.C. Center for the Philosophy and History of Science September 1979 vii TABLE OF CONTENTS EDITORIAL PREFACE VII xi AC K NOWLEDGEMENTS xiii INTRODUCTION The Model Muddle: Proposals for an Immodest Realism 1.
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1. The Model Muddle: Proposals for an Immodest Realism (1966).- 2. Reduction, Explanation and Ontology (1962).- 3. Models, Metaphysics and the Vagaries of Empiricism (1965).- 4. Metaphysics as Heuristic for Science (1965).- 5. Matter, Action and Interaction (1973).- 6. Towards a Critical Materialism (1971).- 7. The Relation Between Philosophy of Science and History of Science (1977).- 8. Telos and Technique: Models as Modes of Action (1968).- 9. From Praxis to Logos: Genetic Epistemology and Physics (1971).- 10. Pictures, Representation, and the Understanding (1972).- 11. Perception, Representation, and the Forms of Action: Towards an Historical Epistemology (1973).- 12. Rules and Representation: The Virtues of Constancy and Fidelity Put in Perspective (1978).- 13. Action and Passion: Spinoza’s Construction of a Scientific Psychology (1973).- 14. Nature, Number and Individuals: Motive and Method in Spinoza’s Philosophy (1978).- 15. Hume’s Concept of Identity and the Principium Individuationis (1961).- 16. Diderot and the Development of Materialist Monism (1953).- 17. Art and Technology: Conflicting Models of Education? The Uses of a Cultural Myth (1973).- 18. Art as Humanizing Praxis (1976).- Name Index.
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