Philosophy, science, and method : essays in honor of Ernest Nagel / Editors: Sidney Morgenbesser, Patrick Suppes [and] Morton White.

Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : St. Martin's Press, [1969]
Descriptionix, 613 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Science--Philosophy.

Other author/creatorNagel, Ernest, 1901-1985.
Other author/creatorMorgenbesser, Sidney, 1921-2004, editor.
Other author/creatorSuppes, Patrick, 1922-2014, editor.
Other author/creatorWhite, Morton, 1917-2016 editor.
Contents Nagel's lectures on Dewey's logic / Patrick Suppes -- Some difficulties in knowing / Stuart Hampshire -- On objective intensions and the law of inverse variation / R.M. Martin -- Confirmation of laws / Mary Hesse -- Induction and the aims of inquiry / Isaac Levi -- Concepts of statistical evidence / Allan Birnbaum -- Some half-baked thoughts about induction / Max Black -- On what there may be in the world / G. Feinberg -- On Cartesian and Darwinian aspects of biology / Theodosius Dobzhansky -- Reduction : ontological and linguistic facets / Carl G. Hempel -- The realist-instrumentalist controversy / Sidney Morgenbesser -- The identity thesis / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- Extensive measurement when concatenation is restricted and maximal elements may exist / R. Duncan Luce and A.A.J. Marley -- Causation and action / Morton White -- Some empirical assumptions in modern philosophy of language / Noam Chomsky --
Contents If matter could talk / Fritz Machlup -- Functionalism in social anthropology / Maurice Mandelbaum -- Legal theory : law, justice, ethics, and social morality / Wolfgang Friedmann -- Metaphors, analogies, models, and all that, in ethical theory / Abraham Edel -- Absolutism and human rights / Sidney Hook -- Justice and rationality / Charles Frankel -- Beyond pareto optimality / James S. Coleman -- Coercion / Robert Nozick -- Existentialism and death : a survey of some confusions and absurdities / Paul Edwards -- The quadrature by Lunes in the later middle ages / Marshall Clagett -- Isaac Newton's Principia, the Scriptures, and divine providence / I. Bernard Cohen -- The law of inertia : some remarks on its structure and significance / Arnold Koslow -- Kant's philosophy of arithmetic / Charles Parsons -- A Soviet philosopher's view of Peirce's pragmatism / Philip P. Wiener -- John D. Rockefeller and the historians / Sigmund Diamond.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Issued in other formOnline version: Philosophy, science, and method. New York, St. Martin's Press [1969]
LCCN 69017855

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