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Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: Problems, Perspectives, and Case Studies
I Integrated History and Philosophy of Science. Contributions from the 5th Conference
Metaphysics and the Unity of Science: Two Hundred Years of Controversy
Metaphysics
The Unity of Science
The Dyadic Tradition
A Defense of the Dyadic Tradition
Windelband
Windelband: Laws vs. Unique Particulars
Windelband: Abstraction vs. Perceptuality
Windelband: Values
Windelband: Human Indeterminacy and Freedom
A Dilemma
Bibliography
Saving Models from Phenomena: A Cautionary Tale from Membrane and Cell Biology
Introduction
Models, Theory, and Evidence: The View from the Life Sciences
The Case of Membrane Models in Cell Biology
Epistemological Strategies and Technological Conditions of Evidentiary Success
Theoretical Commitments as Guide and Constraint
References
My Touchstone Puzzles. W.D. Hamilton’s Work on Social Wasps in the 1960s
Introduction
Inclusive Fitness Theory and the Haplodiploidy Hypothesis
The Puzzle
Brazilian Wasps
Polygyny and Poliandry
Grappling with a Puzzle
Observations and Attempts to Experimentation
Doubts and Adjustments to the Model
Conclusions
Bibliography
The First Century of Cell Theory: From Structural Units to Complex Living Systems
The Standard Story
Writing a New History Around 1950
Putting the Life in Cells
Cell Theory
Fertilization
Cells from Other Cells
Cytoplasm and Nucleus
Cell Lineage
Cell-Cell Interactions
Regen eration
Cell Culture
Conclusion
References
Theorizing the Distinction Between Solids, Liquids and Air: Pressure from Stevin to Pascal
Common Distinctions Between Solids, Liquids and Air
Stevin’s Hydrostatics
Limitations of Attempts by Galileo and Descartes to Characterise Liquids
Understanding Air as Distinct from Liquids and Solids in the Wake of Torricelli
Pascal’s Moves Towards a Technical Concept of Pressure
Beyond Pascal to Boyle’s Concept of Pressure in Liquids
“Beyond the Conventional Boundaries of Physics”: On Relating Ernst Mach’s Philosophy to His Teaching and Research in the 1870s and 1880s
Beyond the Conventional Boundaries of Physics
Mach’s Early Career
Mach’s Anti-metaphysics
Mass and Mechanics
Mach’s Philosophy: Sensation, Matter, Soul
References
Scientific Inference and the Earth’s Interior: Dorothy Wrinch and Harold Jeffreys at Cambridge
Introduction
Dorothy Wrinch and Harold Jeffreys: Biographical Sketches
The Wrinch-Jeffreys Papers
Wrinch and Jeffreys on Russell’s Epistemology of Science
Wrinch and Jeffreys on a Probabilistic Epistemology of Science
Conclusion
References
Values, Facts and Methodologies. A Case Study in Philosophy of Economics
Introduction
The Socialist Calculation Debate and Its Background: The Methodenstreit
The Methodenstreit Restarted
Economics as an a priori Science
Mises’ Argument Against Marketless Socialism
Mises’ Characterization of His Opposition
Neurath’s Opposition to Mises’ Argument
A Different Anti-socialist Calculation Argument
Conclusion
References
Extended Evolution and the History of Knowledge
Introduction
Cultural Evolution
The History of Knowledge as a Case of Extended Evolution
From Biological to Cultural Evolution
The Evolution of Language
The Neolithic Revolution
The Evolution of Writing Systems
The Dynamics of Cultural Evolution
Outlook
References
II General Part
Carnap’s Weltanschauung and the Jugendbewegung: The Story of an Omitted Chapter
Introduction
The Jugendbewegung and Its Effect on Carnap’s Weltanschauung
The “Intimate” Parts of the Biography
Bibliography
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