History of Philosophy of Science

From the reviews: "This volume features a selection of papers from the third biennial meeting of the History of Philosophy of Science Working Group ... . provides a fine sampling of recent studies in the history of philosophy of science. The papers are wide-ranging, engaging and informative. ... the scholarship of this volume is good ... . the volume contains a wealth of historical and philosophical arguments, and should be of interest to a wide audience of historians and philosophers of science ... ." (Jonathan Y. Tsou, British Society for History of Science, 2005)

• On the Notion of “Law”.- Hume on Sense Impressions and Objects.- Kant, Kuhn, and the Rationality of Science.- Neo-Kantian Origins of Modern Empiricism: on the Relation between Popper and the Vienna Circle.- Concerning some Philosophical Reasons for the Recourse to Mathematics in the Study of Physical Phenomena in the Thought of Newton and Leibniz.- Kant on the Apriority of Causal Laws.- Whewell and the Scientists: Science and Philosophy of Science in 19th Century Britain.- Brouwer’s Argument for the Unity of Scientific Theories.- The Role of Models in Boltzmann’s Lectures on Natural Philosophy (1903–1906).- Physical Pictures: Engineering Models circa 1914 and in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus.- The Modern History of Scientific Explanation.- From the Values of Scientific Philosophy to the Value Neutrality of the Philosophy of Science.- Helmholtz’s Methodology of Sensory Science, the Zeichentheorie, and Physical Models of Hearing Mechanisms.- Physics without Pictures? The Ostwald-Boltzmann Controversy, and Mach’s (Unnoticed) Middle-Way.- Ludwig Boltzmann’s Mathematical Argument for Atomism.- Hilbert’s Program to Axiomatize Physics (in Analogy to Geometry) and its Impact on Schlick, Carnap and other Members of the Vienna Circle.- Hopes and Disappointments in Hilbert’s Axiomatic “Foundations of Physics”.- Mathematical Physics and Philosophy of Physics (with Special Consideration of J. von Neumann’s Work).- How Metaphysical is “Deepening the Foundations”? Hahn and Frank on Hilbert’s Axiomatic Method.- The EPR Experiment: a Prelude to Bohr’s Reply to EPR.- The French Connection: Conventionalism and the Vienna Circle.- Carnap on Logic and Experience.- Affmities between Fleck and Neurath.- Critical Rationalism, Logical Positivism, and thePost-structuralist Conundrum: Reconsidering the Neurath-Popper Debate.- Philosophy of Biology around the Vienna Circle: Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Joseph Henry Woodger and Philipp Frank.- B.F. Skinner and P.W. Bridgman: the Frustration of a Wahlverwandtschaft.- Sociology of Science, Rule Following and Forms of Life.- The Philosopher without Qualities.- The Poverty of “Constructivist” History (and Policy Advice).- Vernunftkritik und Wissenschaft. Otto Neurath und der erste Wiener Kreis, Wien—New York: Springer 2000..- The Social Origins of Modern Science. Ed. by Diederick Raven, Wolfgang Krohn and Robert S. Cohen. Dordrecht—Boston—London: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2000 (= Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 200)..- Karl Popper: The Formative Years, 1902–1945; Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna, Cambridge University Press 2000..- Bolzano’s Philosophy and the Emergence of Modern Mathematics, Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam—Atlanta 2000..- “Wahrheit suchen und Wahrheit bekennen.” Alexius Meinong: Skizze seines Lebens, Amsterdam—Atlanta, GA: Rodopi 1999 (= Studien zur österreichischen Philosophie, Bd. 28)..- Einstein: The Formative Years, 1879–1909, Boston—Basel—Berlin: Birkhäuser 2000 (= Einstein Studies, vol. 8)..- Activities of the IVC.- Activities 2001.- Preview 2002.- Obituaries.- Marie Jahoda (1907–2001) (Christian Fleck).- Wesley C. Salmon (1925–2001) (Maria Carla Galavotti).- Paul Neurath (1911–2001) (Elisabeth Nemeth).- Index of Names.