Science At Centurys End : Philosophical Questions On The Progress And Limits Of S.
A collection of 20 essays by prominent philosophers and historians who explore and debate limits of scientific inquiry and their consequences for science in the 21st century. Constraints are addressed that are relevant for the whole of science, and possible limitations of specific branches of scienc...
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University of Pittsburgh Press,
2000.
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| ISBN: | 130655571X 9781306555715 9780822972440 0822972441 |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Science at the End of the Century: Prospects and Limits of Science / Martin Carrier, Gerald J. Massey, and Laura Reutsche
- Frontiers of Knowledge
- 1. Extending Ourselves / Paul Humphreys
- 2. The Limits of Generative Atomism: Comment on Paul Humphreys's "Extending Ourselves" / Peter McLaughlin
- 3. The Limits of Natural Science: Rescher's View / Robert Almeder
- 4. Toward the Pale: Cosmological Darwinism and 'The Limits of Science' / Laura Ruetsche
- 5. Nicholas Rescher on the Limits of Science / Jurgen Mittelstrass
- 6. Limits of Science: Replies and Comments / Nicholas Rescher
- 7. How to Pile Up Fundamental Truths Incessantly: On the Prospect of Reconciling Scientific Realism with Unending Progress / Martin Carrier
- 8. Can Computers Overcome Our Limitations? / Nicholas Rescher
- 9. Limits to Self-Observation / Thomas Breuer
- 10. Blinded to History? : Science and the Constancy of Nature / Alfred Nordmann
- 11. On Kinds of Timelessness: Comment on Nordmann / Richard Raatzsch
- 12. Metaphors and Theoretical Terms: Problems in Referring to the Mental / Hans Julius Schneider
- 13. Unity and the Limits of Science / Margaret Morrison
- Prospects for the Special Sciences
- 14. Limits and the Future of Quantum Theory / Gordon N. Fleming
- 15. Limits to Biological Knowledge / Alex Rosenberg
- 16. A Physicist's Comment to Rosenberg / Michael Stoltzner
- 17. The Limits of Experimental Method: Experimenting on an Entangled System: The Case of Biophysics / Giora Hon
- 18. On Some Alleged Differences between Physics and Biology / Andreas Huttemann
- 19. Models of Error and the Limits of Experimental Testing / Deborah G. Mayo
- 20. Inductive Logic and the Growth of Methodological Knowledge: Comment on Mayo / Bernd Buldt.
- 21. On Modeling and Simulations as Instruments for the Study of Complex Systems / Manfred Stockler
- Contributors
- Index.