Language and Scientific Research

Wenceslao J. Gonzalez is Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of A Coruña, Spain. He is a Full Member of the Académie International de Philosophie des Sciences and a Fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.

• 1 The Relevance of Language for Scientific Research.- Part I The Problem of Reference and Potentialities of the Language in Science.- 2 Semantics of Science and Theory of Reference: An Analysis of the Role of Language in Basic Science and Applied Science.-3 On the Role of Language in Scientific Research: Language as Analytic, Expressive, and Explanatory tool.- Part II Language and Change in Scientific Research: Evolution and Historicity.- 4 Scientific Inquiry and the Evolution of Language.- 5 Language, History and the Making of Accurate Observations.- Part III Scientific Language in the Context of Truth and Fiction.- 6 The Evolution of Truth and Belief.- 7 Models, Fictions and Artifacts.- Part IV Language in Mathematics and in Empirical Sciences.- 8 On Mathematical Language: Characteristics, Semiosis and Indispensability.- 9 Characterization of Scientific Prediction From Language: An Analysis of Nicholas Rescher’s Proposal.