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Essays in Honor of Carl G. Hempel

A Tribute on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday

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Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 24)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Reminiscences of Peter

    • Paul Oppenheim
    Pages 1-4

  3. Natural Kinds

    • W. V. Quine
    Pages 5-23

  4. Inductive Independence and the Paradoxes of Confirmation

    • Jaakko Hintikka
    Pages 24-46

  5. Partial Entailment as a Basis for Inductive Logic

    • Wesley C. Salmon
    Pages 47-82

  6. Are There Non-Deductive Logics?

    • Wilfrid Sellars
    Pages 83-103

  7. Statistical Explanation vs. Statistical Inference

    • Richard C. Jeffrey
    Pages 104-113

  8. Newcomb’s Problem and Two Principles of Choice

    • Robert Nozick
    Pages 114-146

  9. The Meaning of Time

    • Adolf Grünbaum
    Pages 147-177

  10. Lawfulness as Mind-Dependent

    • Nicholas Rescher
    Pages 178-197

  11. Events and Their Descriptions: Some Considerations

    • Jaegwon Kim
    Pages 198-215

  12. The Individuation of Events

    • Donald Davidson
    Pages 216-234

  13. On Properties

    • Hilary Putnam
    Pages 235-254

  14. A Method for Avoiding the Curry Paradox

    • Frederic B. Fitch
    Pages 255-265

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 266-274
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About this book

The eminent philosopher of science Carl G. Hempel, Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University and a Past President of the American Philosophical Association, has had a long and distinguished academic career in the course of which he has been professorial mentor to some of America's most distinguished philosophers. This volume gathers together twelve original papers by Hempel's students and associates into a volume intended to do homage to Hempel on the occasion of his 65th year in 1970. The papers are grouped around the unifying topic of Hempel's own interests in logic and philosophy of science, the great majority dealing with issues on inductive logic and the theory of scientific explanatio- problems to which Hempel has devoted the bulk of his outstandingly fruitful efforts. With the approach of 'Peter' Hempel's 65th birthday, an editorial committee sprang into being by an uncannily spontaneous process to prepare to commemorate this event with an appropriate Festschrift. The editors were pleased to receive unfailingly prompt and efficient coopera­ tion on the part of all contributors. The responsibility of seeing the work through the press was assumed by Nicholas Rescher. The editors are grateful to all concerned for their collaboration. ALAN ROSS ANDERSON PAUL BENACERRAF ADOLF GRUNBAUM GERALD J. MASSEY NICHOLAS RESCHER RICHARD S. RUDNER TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE V PAUL OPPENHEIM: Reminiscences of Peter 1 w. v. QUINE: Natural Kinds 5 JAAKKO HINTIKKA: Inductive Independence and the Paradoxes of Confirmation 24 WESLEY c.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Essays in Honor of Carl G. Hempel

  • Book Subtitle: A Tribute on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday

  • Editors: Nicholas Rescher

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1466-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1969

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0085-8Published: 31 July 1969

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8332-6Published: 25 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-1466-2Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 274

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science

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