edited by Francis Gen-Ichiro Nagasaka, Robert S. Cohen.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Dordrecht
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Springer Netherlands
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1998
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
(xviii, 191 pages)
SERIES
Series Title
Boston studies in the philosophy of science, 45.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
1. The Mind as Human Jobs --;2. Other Minds --;3. On the Individuation of Events --;4. Mind, Privacy and Causality --;5. Double Look: Science Superposed on a Perceptual World --;6. Scientific Laws as Tools for Taxonomy --;7. Causality and Temporal Irreversibility --;8. The Structure of Statistical Inference --;9. On Inference in Science --;10. Comment on the Machida-Namiki-Araki Theory --;11. Who Are Precursors of Galileo in His Pisan Dynamics? --;A Criticism of Professor Moody's Paper --;12. Philosophical Meanings of the Concept of Evolution --;Index of Names.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
The splendid achievements of Japanese mathematics and natural sciences during the second half of our 20th century have been a revival, a Renaissance, of the practical sciences developed along with the turn toward Western thinking in the late 19th century.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Biology -- Philosophy.
Genetic epistemology.
Philosophy (General)
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
Q174
Book number
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E358
1998
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
edited by Francis Gen-Ichiro Nagasaka, Robert S. Cohen.