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Language, Logic and Method

Product Description: Fundamental problems of the uses of formal techniques and of natural and instrumental practices have been raised again and again these past two decades, in many quarters and from varying viewpoints. We have brought a number of quite basic studies of these issues together in this volume, not linked conÂ ceptually nor by any rigorously defined problematic, but rather simply some of the most interesting and even provocative of recent research accomplishÂ ments...read more

By Robert S. Cohen (editor) and Marx W. Wartofsky (editor)

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9789027707253 | D Reidel Pub Co, November 1, 1982, cover price $389.00 | About this edition: Fundamental problems of the uses of formal techniques and of natural and instrumental practices have been raised again and again these past two decades, in many quarters and from varying viewpoints.

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9789400977044 | Springer Verlag, April 21, 2014, cover price $389.00 | About this edition: Fundamental problems of the uses of formal techniques and of natural and instrumental practices have been raised again and again these past two decades, in many quarters and from varying viewpoints.

Hegel and the Sciences

Product Description: To the scientists and philosophers of our time, Hegel has been either a neÂ glected or a provocative thinker, a source of irrelevant dark metaphysics or of complex but insightful analysis. His influence upon the work of natural scientists has seemed minimal, in the main; and his stimulus to the nascent sciences of society and to psychology has seemed to be as often an obstacle as an encouragement...read more

By Robert S. Cohen (editor) and Marx W. Wartofsky (editor)

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9789027707260 | D Reidel Pub Co, June 1, 1984, cover price $389.00 | About this edition: To the scientists and philosophers of our time, Hegel has been either a neÂ glected or a provocative thinker, a source of irrelevant dark metaphysics or of complex but insightful analysis.

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9789400962354 | Springer Verlag, November 12, 2011, cover price $389.00 | About this edition: To the scientists and philosophers of our time, Hegel has been either a neÂ glected or a provocative thinker, a source of irrelevant dark metaphysics or of complex but insightful analysis.

Physical Sciences and History of Physics

Product Description: These essays on the conceptual understanding of modern physics strike directly at some of the principal difficulties faced by contemporary philosÂ ophers of physical science. Moreover, they reverberate to earlier and classical struggles with those difficulties...read more

By Robert S. Cohen (editor) and Marx W. Wartofsky (editor)

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9789027716156 | D Reidel Pub Co, February 1, 1984, cover price $259.00

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9789400971806 | Springer Verlag, October 13, 2011, cover price $259.00 | About this edition: These essays on the conceptual understanding of modern physics strike directly at some of the principal difficulties faced by contemporary philosÂ ophers of physical science.

Proceedings of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science 1966/1968

By Marx W. Wartofsky (editor)

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9789401033800 | Springer Verlag, October 13, 2011, cover price $389.00

Methodology, Metaphysics and the History of Science: In Memory of Benjamin Nelson

Product Description: This selection of papers that were presented (or nearly so!) to the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science during the seventies fairly reÂ presents some of the most disturbing issues of scientific knowledge in these years...read more

By Robert S. Cohen (editor) and Marx W. Wartofsky (editor)

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9789027717115 | D Reidel Pub Co, August 1, 1984, cover price $349.00 | About this edition: This selection of papers that were presented (or nearly so!

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9789400963337 | Springer Verlag, November 5, 2011, cover price $349.00 | About this edition: This selection of papers that were presented (or nearly so!

Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science: Proceedings of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science 1961/1962

Product Description: The broad range of interdisciplinary concerns which are encompassed by the philosophy of science have this much in common: (I) they arise from reflection upon the fundamental concepts, the formal structures, and the methodology of the sciences; (2) they touch upon the characteristically philosophical questions of ontology and epistemology in a unique way, bringing to traditional conceptions the analytic apparatus of modern logic, and the new content and conceptual models of active scientific investigations...read more

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9789401032650 | Springer Verlag, November 3, 2011, cover price $129.00 | About this edition: The broad range of interdisciplinary concerns which are encompassed by the philosophy of science have this much in common: (I) they arise from reflection upon the fundamental concepts, the formal structures, and the methodology of the sciences; (2) they touch upon the characteristically philosophical questions of ontology and epistemology in a unique way, bringing to traditional conceptions the analytic apparatus of modern logic, and the new content and conceptual models of active scientific investigations.

Proceedings of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science 1964/1966: In Memory of Norwood Russell Hanson

Product Description: This third volume of Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science contains papers which are based upon Colloquia from 1964 to 1966. In most cases, they have been substantially modified subsequent to presentation and discussion. Once again we publish work which goes beyond technical analysis of scientific theories and explanations in order to include philoÂ sophical reflections upon the history of science and also upon the still problematic interactions between metaphysics and science...read more

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9789401035101 | Springer Verlag, November 3, 2011, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: This third volume of Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science contains papers which are based upon Colloquia from 1964 to 1966.

Artifacts, Representations and Social Practice: Essays for Marx Wartofsky

Product Description: The essays collected here in honor of Marx Wartofsky's sixty-fifth birthday are a celebration of his rich contribution to philosophy over the past four decades and a testimony to the wide influence he has had on thinkers with quite various approaches of their own...read more

By Robert S. Cohen (editor)

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9780792324812 | Kluwer Academic Pub, January 1, 1994, cover price $388.00

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9789401043908 | Reprint edition (Springer Verlag, October 20, 2012), cover price $129.00 | About this edition: The essays collected here in honor of Marx Wartofsky's sixty-fifth birthday are a celebration of his rich contribution to philosophy over the past four decades and a testimony to the wide influence he has had on thinkers with quite various approaches of their own.

Science, Mind, and Art: Essays on Science and the Humanistic Understanding in Art, Epistemology, Religion, and Ethics in Honor of Robert S. Cohen

Product Description: In three volumes, a distinguished group of scholars from a variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences, the humanities and the arts contribute essays in honor of Robert S. Cohen, on the occasion of his 70th birthday...read more

By J. J. Stachel (editor) and Marx W. Wartofsky (editor)

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9789401042109, titled "Science, Mind and Art: Essays on Science and the Humanistic Understanding in Art, Epistemology, Religion and Ethics in Honor of Robert S. Cohen" | Reprint edition (Springer Verlag, October 6, 2012), cover price $319.00 | also contains Science, Mind, and Art: Essays on Science and the Humanistic Understanding in Art, Epistemology, Religion, and Ethics in Honor of Robert S. Cohen | About this edition: In three volumes, a distinguished group of scholars from a variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences, the humanities and the arts contribute essays in honor of Robert S.

Science, Mind, and Art: Essays on Science and the Humanistic Understanding in Art, Epistemology, Religion, and Ethics in Honor of Robert S. Cohen

By Marx W. Wartofsky (editor)

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9780792329909 | Kluwer Academic Pub, November 1, 1995, cover price $319.00

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Epistemology, Methodology, and the Social Sciences

Product Description: The last decades have seen major reformations in the philosophy and history of science. What has been called 'post-positivist' philosophy of science has introduced radically new concerns with historical, social, and valuative components of scientific thought in the natural sciences, and has raised up the demons of relativism, subjectivism and sociologism to haunt the onceÂ calm precincts of objectivity and realism...read more

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9789048183760 | Springer Verlag, December 22, 2010, cover price $269.00 | About this edition: The last decades have seen major reformations in the philosophy and history of science.

Science, Politics and Social Practice: Essays on Marxism and Science, Philosophy of Culture and the Social Sciences in Honor of Robert S. Cohen

Product Description: The essays in this Festschrift are celebrations of the human mind in its manifold expressions - philosophical, scientific, historical, aesthetic, political - and in its various modes - analytical, systematic, critical, imaginative, constructive...read more

By Marx W. Wartofsky (editor)

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9789048144372 | Reprint edition (Springer Verlag, December 7, 2010), cover price $289.00 | About this edition: The essays in this Festschrift are celebrations of the human mind in its manifold expressions - philosophical, scientific, historical, aesthetic, political - and in its various modes - analytical, systematic, critical, imaginative, constructive.

Physics, Philosophy, and the Scientific Community: Essays in the Philosophy and History of the Natural Sciences and Mathematics in Honor of Robert S. Cohen

By Marx W. Wartofsky (editor)

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9789048144365 | Springer Verlag, December 3, 2010, cover price $309.00 | About this edition: In three volumes, a distinguished group of scholars from a variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences, the humanities and the arts contribute essays in honor of Robert S.

Proceedings of the Boston Colloquium for

By Marx W. Wartofsky

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9789027700216 | Springer Verlag, August 29, 2007, cover price $209.00 | About this edition: The broad range of interdisciplinary concerns which are encompassed by the philosophy of science have this much in common: (I) they arise from reflection upon the fundamental concepts, the formal structures, and the methodology of the sciences; (2) they touch upon the characteristically philosophical questions of ontology and epistemology in a unique way, bringing to traditional conceptions the analytic apparatus of modern logic, and the new content and conceptual models of active scientific investigations.

Marx, Reason, And the Art of Freedom

Product Description: In this analysis of the problem of freedom from a humanistic-Marxist perspective, philosopher Kevin M. Brien draws on the full chronological spectrum of Marxâs writings to reconstruct the mature Marxâs view of freedom under three broad categories: freedom as a mode of being, freedom as transcendence, and freedom as spontaneity...read more

By Kevin M. Brien and Marx W. Wartofsky (foreword by)

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9781591023661 | 2 edition (Humanity Books, December 5, 2005), cover price $25.99 | About this edition: In this analysis of the problem of freedom from a humanistic-Marxist perspective, philosopher Kevin M.

Physics, Philosophy, and the Scientific Community: Essays in the Philosophy and History of the Natural Sciences and Mathematics in Honor of Robert S

By Robert S. Cohen (editor), Kostas Gavroglu, John J. Stachel and Marx W. Wartofsky (editor)

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9780792329886 | Kluwer Academic Pub, December 1, 1994, cover price $309.00 | About this edition: In three volumes, a distinguished group of scholars from a variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences, the humanities and the arts contribute essays in honor of Robert S.

A Portrait of Twenty-Five Years: Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science, 1960-1985

Product Description: The Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science began 2S years ago as an interdisciplinary, interuniversity collaboration of friends and colleagues in philosophy, logic, the natural sciences and the social sciences, psychology, religious studies, arts and literature, and often the celebrated man-in-theÂ street...read more

By Robert S. Cohen (editor) and Marx W. Wartofsky (editor)

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9789027719713 | D Reidel Pub Co, August 1, 1985, cover price $129.00 | About this edition: The Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science began 2S years ago as an interdisciplinary, interuniversity collaboration of friends and colleagues in philosophy, logic, the natural sciences and the social sciences, psychology, religious studies, arts and literature, and often the celebrated man-in-theÂ street.

Feuerbach

Product Description: Feuerbach is now recognized as a central figure in the history of nineteenth-century thought. He was one of Hegel's most influential pupils: he dominated German radical philosophy in the 1840s and was the leader of the Young Hegelians; his 'anthropological' critique of Hegel's idealism decisively influences the materialism and humanism of Marx and Engels; his critique of religion pointed the way for the philosophers of religion; and his psychological analyses found a place in Freudian thought and the existential and phenomenological traditions...read more

By Marx W. Wartofsky

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9780521212571 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 1, 1977, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Feuerbach is now recognized as a central figure in the history of nineteenth-century thought.

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9780521289290 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1982, cover price $59.99 | About this edition: Feuerbach is now recognized as a central figure in the history of nineteenth-century thought.

Models

Product Description: Marx Wartofsky has been working for many years within an unusual confluence of philosophical problems. He brings to these intersecting problems his comprehensive intelligence, at once imaginative and rigorous, analytic and historical...read more

By Robert S. Cohen (editor) and Marx W. Wartofsky

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9789027707369 | Kluwer Academic Print on Demand, October 1, 1979, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Marx Wartofsky has been working for many years within an unusual confluence of philosophical problems.

Models: Representation and the Scientific Understanding

By Marx W. Wartofsky

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9789027709479 | Kluwer Academic Pub, June 1, 1979, cover price $149.00 | About this edition: Marx Wartofsky has been working for many years within an unusual confluence of philosophical problems.

Progress and Rationality in Science

Product Description: This collection of essays has evolved through the co-operative efforts, which began in the fall of 1974, of the participants in a workshop sponsored by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. The idea of holding one or more small colloquia devoted to the topics of rational choice in science and scientific progress originated in a conversation in the summer of 1973 between one of the editors (GR) and the late Imre Lakatos...read more

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9789027709226 | Reprint edition (Springer Verlag, November 30, 1978), cover price $99.00 | About this edition: This collection of essays has evolved through the co-operative efforts, which began in the fall of 1974, of the participants in a workshop sponsored by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation.

Essays in Memory of Imre Lakatos

Product Description: The death of Imre Lakatos on February 2, 1974 was a personal and philosophical loss to the worldwide circle of his friends, colleagues and students. This volume reflects the range of his interests in mathematics, logic, politics and especially in the history and methodology of the sciences...read more

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9789027706546 | Springer Verlag, June 1, 1976, cover price $489.00 | About this edition: The death of Imre Lakatos on February 2, 1974 was a personal and philosophical loss to the worldwide circle of his friends, colleagues and students.

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9789027706553 | Kluwer Academic Pub, June 1, 1976, cover price $269.00 | About this edition: The death of Imre Lakatos on February 2, 1974 was a personal and philosophical loss to the worldwide circle of his friends, colleagues and students.

For Dirk Struik: Scientific, Historical and Political Essays in Honour of Dirk J. Struik

Product Description: It is fitting that Professor Dirk Jan Struik be greeted with this melange of mathematical, scientific, historical, sociological and political essays. The authors are also appropriately varied: different countries, outlooks, religions, generations, and we suppose - of course we did not as- different politics too...read more

By Marx W. Wartofsky

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9789027703934 | Springer Verlag, October 31, 1974, cover price $389.00 | About this edition: It is fitting that Professor Dirk Jan Struik be greeted with this melange of mathematical, scientific, historical, sociological and political essays.

For Dirk Struik: Scientific, Historical and Political Essays in Honor of Dirk J. Struik

By Marx W. Wartofsky (editor)

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9789027703798 | Reprint edition (Springer Verlag, October 31, 1974), cover price $389.00 | About this edition: It is fitting that Professor Dirk Jan Struik be greeted with this melange of mathematical, scientific, historical, sociological and political essays.

Methodological and Historical Essays in the Natural and Social Sciences

Product Description: Modem philosophy of science has turned out to be a Pandora's box. Once opened, the puzzling monsters appeared: not only was the neat structure of classical physics radically changed, but a variety of broader questions were let loose, bearing on the nature of scientific inquiry and of human knowledge in general...read more

By Marx W. Wartofsky (editor)

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9789027703927 | Mfilm edition (Springer Verlag, April 30, 1974), cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Modem philosophy of science has turned out to be a Pandora's box.

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9789027703781 | Reprint edition (Springer Verlag, April 30, 1974), cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Modem philosophy of science has turned out to be a Pandora's box.

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