PSA 1974

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIII

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2. Symposium the Unity of Science

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Unified Theories and Unified Science

      • Robert L. Causey

      Pages 3-13

   3. Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics and the Complexity of Reductions

      • Lawrence Sklar

      Pages 15-32

   4. Theory Generalization Problem Reduction and the Unity of Science

      • Thomas Nickles

      Pages 33-75

3. Contributed Papers Session I

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77

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   2. Galileo and Reasoning ex Suppositione: the Methodology of the two New Sciences

      • William A. Wallace

      Pages 79-104

   3. The erkenntnistheoretikers Dilemma: J. B. Stallo’s Attack on Atomism in His Concepts and Theories of Modern Physics (1881)

      • John V. Strong

      Pages 105-123

4. Symposium Genetics, IQ and Education

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125

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   2. Fictionalism, Functionalism and Factor Analysis

      • N. J. Block

      Pages 127-141

   3. IQ, Heritability, and Human Nature

      • Norman Daniels

      Pages 143-180

   4. The IQ Controversy and the Philosophy of Education

      • Kenneth Kaye

      Pages 181-188

5. Contributed Papers Session II

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189

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   2. Evolutionary Rationality

      • Henryk Skolimowski

      Pages 191-213

   3. Laws and Meaning Postulates

      • Linda Wessels

      Pages 215-234

   4. Meaning in Science and Mathematics

      • Paul Fitzgerald

      Pages 235-269

   5. Observationality and the Comparability of Theories

      • Philip A. Ostien

      Pages 271-289

6. Symposium Science Education And The Philosophy of Science

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 291-291

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   2. The Relevance of Philosophy of Science for Science Education

      • Michael Martin

      Pages 293-300

   3. Metaphorical Models of Mastery: or, How to Learn to Do the Problems at the End of the Chapter of the Physics Textbook

      • Hugh G. Petrie

      Pages 301-312

For this book, we have selected papers from symposia and contributed sessions at the fourth biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, held at the University of Notre Dame on November 1-3, 1974. The meeting was lively and well-attended, and we regret that there was no way to record here the many stimulating discussions after the papers and during the informal hours. We also regret that we had in­ sufficient space for all the contributed papers. Even more, some of the symposia were not available: those on systems and decision theory (c. W. Churchman, P. Suppes, I. Levi), and on the Marxist philosophy of science (M. W. Wartofsky, R. S. Cohen, E. N. Hiebert). Unhappily several individual contributions to other symposia were likewise not available: I. Velikovsky in the session on his own work and the politics of science, D. Finkelstein in the session on quantum logic. Memorial minutes were read for Alan Ross Anderson (prepared by Nuel Belnap) and for Imre Lakatos (prepared by Paul Feyerabend). They initiate this volume of philosophy of science in the mid-seventies.

• philosophy of science

• Boston University, USA

  R. S. Cohen

• University of Western Ontario, Canada

  C. A. Hooker

• University of Guelph, Canada

  A. C. Michalos

• University of Waterloo, Canada

  J. W. Evra

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