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The Scientific Enterprise

The Bar-Hillel Colloquium: Studies in History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science, Volume 4

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  1. Edna Ullmann-Margalit
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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 146)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Symposium Niels Bohr Centennial

    1. The Genesis of Bohr’s Complementarity Principle and the Bohr-Heisenberg Dialogue

      • Mara Beller
      Pages 273-293

  2. Back Matter

    Pages 295-302
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About this book

The volume before us is the fourth in the series of proceedings of what used to be the Israel Colloquium for the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science. This Colloquium has in the meantime been renamed. It now bears the name of Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (1915-1975). Bar-Hillel was an eminent philosopher of science, language, and cognition, as well as a fearless fighter for enlightenment and a passionate teacher who had a durable influence on Israeli philosophical life. The essays collected in this volume have of course this much in common, that they are all in, of, and pertaining to science. They also share the property of having all been delivered before live, and often lively, audiences in Jerusalem and in Tel Aviv, in the years 1984-1986. As is customary in the volumes of this series, the essays and commentaries presented here are intended to strike a rather special balance between the disciplines to which the Colloquium is dedicated. The historical and sociological vantage point is addressed in Kramnick's and Mali's treatment of Priestley, in Vickers' and Feldhay's studies of the Renaissance occult, and in Warnke's and Barasch's work on the imagination. From a philosophical angle several concepts, all material to the methodology of science, are taken up: rule following, by Smart and Margalit; analysis, by Ackerman; explanation, by Taylor; and the role of mathematics in physics, by Levy-Leblond and Pitowsky.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Scientific Enterprise

  • Book Subtitle: The Bar-Hillel Colloquium: Studies in History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science, Volume 4

  • Editors: Edna Ullmann-Margalit

  • Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2688-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1992

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1992-4Published: 31 October 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5190-3Published: 26 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-2688-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 302

  • Topics: Pragmatism, History, general, Philosophy of Technology

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