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  • Physics, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: Essays in Honor of Adolf Gru?nbaum

    Physics, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis by Cohen, Robert S.; Laudan, R.;

    Essays in Honor of Adolf Gru?nbaum

    Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science; 76;

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    • Edition number Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983
    • Publisher Springer Netherlands
    • Date of Publication 19 October 2011
    • Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book

    • ISBN 9789400970571
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages339 pages
    • Size 223x152 mm
    • Weight 527 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations XVIII, 339 p.
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    To celebrate Adolf Griinbaum's sixtieth birthday by offering him this bouquet of essays written for this purpose was the happy task of an autonomous Editorial Committee: Wesley C. Salmon, Nicholas Rescher, Larry Laudan, Carl G. Hempel, and Robert S. Cohen. To present the book within the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science was altogether fitting and natural, for Griinbaum has' been friend and supporter of philosophy of science at Boston University for twenty-five years, and unofficial godfather to the Boston Colloquium. To regret that we could not include contributions from all his well-wishers, critical admirers and admiring critics, is only to regret that we did not have an encyclopedic space at the committee's disposal. But we, and all involved in this book, speak for all the others in the philo

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    Table of Contents:

    Geometry and Semantics: An Examination of Putnam?s Philosophy of Geometry.- The Epistemological Status of Recent Developments in Psychoanalytic Theory.- The Theory of Your Dreams.- Valuation and Objectivity in Science.- Simultaneity and Conventionality.- The Demise of the Demarcation Problem.- Gru?nbaum on Determinism and the Moral Life.- The Unpredictability of Future Science.- Freud?s Early Theories of Hysteria.- Clinical Trials: The Validation of Theory and Therapy.- Reflections on the Philosophy of Bohr, Heisenberg, and Schro?dinger.- Zeno?s Paradox of Measure.- Special Relativity from Measuring Rods.- Causality and Spacetime Structure in Relativity.- Calibration: A Frequency Justification for Personal Probability.- Bibliography of Adolf Gru?nbaum.- Index of Names.

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