In the Scope of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science: Volume Two of the 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Cracow, August 1999

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Peter Gärdenfors, Jan Wolenski, K. Kijania-Placek
Springer Science & Business Media, Mar 14, 2013 - Science - 362 pages
This is the second of two volumes containing papers submitted by the invited speakers to the 11th international Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, held in Cracow in 1999, under the auspices of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. The invited speakers are the leading researchers and accordingly the book presents the current state of the intellectual discourse in the respective fields.
The papers delivered at the congress were divided into 17 sections. Thus the structure of the volume corresponds to the very schedule of the congress. Volume two contains the closing lecture by John Maynard Smith and the invited papers in sections of Philosophy of the Biological Sciences, Philosophy of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Linguistics, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Ethics of Science and Technology, History of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Philosophical Questions Raised by the History and Sociology of Science. It also contains invited papers in two special symposia: A Hundred Years of the Philosophy of Science and Cognitive Science Meets Philosophy of Science, as well as a special lecture delivered by Stanislaw Lem.
We hope that the book could be of interest to philosophers, biologists, linguists, cognitive scientists, social scientists, sociologists, as well as historians and philosophers of science.
 

Contents

Biology and the Possible
References
A thoughtexperiment
Minds are information processing systems
Theres a long way to
Notes References
Philosophy of Linguistics
Linguistics as a System of Distinct Types of OntologyCum Methodology 1 General remarks
Historical
Historical epistemology
Metaepistemology
The Parting of the Ways 1 Introduction 2 Anticipations
Philosophy
Trauma
Child development
Possibilities

The internal structure of linguistics 3 Grammatical theory
postulational vs synthetic models
grammatical theory vs psycholinguistics
Speech act theory and text linguistics
hard vs soft
Diachronic linguistics 9 Linguistic typology and language universals
The relevance of history of linguistics to philosophy of linguistics
References
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Philosophy and the Social Sciences 1 The inner aspect of human behavior
Conceptual analysis in philosophy 3 The contributions of H L A Hart and David K Lewis
On the overall scientific utility of everyday social concepts
Some background
Indirect evidence
Horsts criticism
Summary and conclusion
The valueneutrality of science tested
Notes
The Ways in which the Sciences are and are Not Value Free
Scientific Controversy and the Public Face of Science
Conclusion
Incommensurability splitup of natural kinds and shifts
Scientific revolutions and incommensurability in
Appraisal of science as value free
Philosophical Questions Raised by the History and Sociology of Science
Historical Ontology 1 Ontology
History and philosophy
Philosophy and science
Carnap
the scientific world conception
Notes
The parting of the ways
Historicist metamethodology
Rationality and theorychange
Historicity and rationality
Subjectivity
The realism debate
The social turn
Conclusion
Notes
References
Patterns of Interaction among Philosophers of Science and Cognitive Scientists 1 Introduction
Examples
Distributed cognition
Scientific cognition as distributed cognition
Between constructivism and the computational theory
The Concept of Information in Biology
Is the genome a developmental program?
On the Future of Science
An alternative history of cognitive science
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