Physics, philosophy, and the scientific community

Kostas Gavroglu, John Stachel, Mark W. Wartofsky (eds)

Springer - Berlin

1995

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.

Science, mind and art

Kostas Gavroglu, John Stachel, Mark W. Wartofsky (eds)

Springer - Berlin

1995

Physical sciences and history of physics

Robert S. Cohen, Mark W. Wartofsky (eds)

Springer - Berlin

1984

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

Language, logic and method

Robert S. Cohen, Mark W. Wartofsky (eds)

Springer - Berlin

1983

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 con­ ceptually nor by any rigorously defined problematic, but rather simply some of the most interesting and even provocative of recent research accomplish­ ments.