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Form and Strategy in Science

Studies Dedicated to Joseph Henry Woodger on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday

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  • © 1964

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  1. John R. Gregg

    1. Duke University, Durham,N.C, USA

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  2. F. T. C. Harris

    1. University of London, Middlesex Hospital Medical School, UK

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Men of science are sometimes mistrustful of or at least impatient with philosophy. One of them, himself no stranger to hard thought, was one day heard to comment on his colleagues in another faculty and on their propensity to indulge in what he called "all this nonsense about thinking". Against this may perhaps be set a meeting of philosophers who decided to discuss the Second Law of Thermodynamics. When asked sardonically by a scientist whether they had disproved it, one of the philosophers replied: "No, we have concluded that it is not so much false as meaning­ less" . This curious appearance of cross purposes reflects something more than mere captiousness or misunderstanding. As to the "nonsense about thinking", it is perfectly true that an excessive formalisation of argu­ ments does not usually assist clear thinking very much. Plenty of people would be nonplussed by a formal logical exercise of the type: all A is B, Cis B: is C therefore A? But equate A to Frenchman, C to Germans and B to Europeans, and tht:y would never run the slightest risk of going astray.

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Table of contents (29 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VII
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  2. Joseph Henry Woodger, Curriculum Vitae

    1. Joseph Henry Woodger, Curriculum Vitae

      • W. F. Floyd, F. T. C. Harris
      Pages 1-6

  3. Editors’ Note

    1. Editors’ Note

      • John R. Gregg, F. T. C. Harris
      Pages 7-8

  4. Foreword

    1. Foreword

      • Cyril Hinshelwood
      Pages 9-12

  5. Philosophy of Science

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Metaphysical Presuppositions and the Description of Biological Systems

      • Morton Beckner
      Pages 15-29

    3. Speculations and Theories

      • Peter Alexander
      Pages 30-46

    4. On Simple Theories of a Complex World

      • Willard Orman van Quine
      Pages 47-50

    5. The Devious Roads of Science

      • N. Rashevsky
      Pages 51-58

    6. Complexity and Organization

      • Harold F. Blum
      Pages 59-65

    7. The Relationship Between Formalised Languages and Natural Language

      • Evert W. Beth
      Pages 66-81

    8. A Survey of Formal Semantics

      • Robert Rogers
      Pages 82-121

    9. Analyticity Versus Fuzziness

      • John G. Kemeny
      Pages 122-145

    10. Toward A Logic of Intensions

      • R. M. Martin
      Pages 146-167

  6. Logical Analysis of Theory Structure

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169
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    2. Creative and Non-Creative Definitions in the Calculus of Probability

      • Karl R. Popper
      Pages 171-190

    3. Algebraic Simplification of Redundant Sequential Circuits

      • Frederic B. Fitch
      Pages 191-202

    4. Aristotle’s Syllogistic and its Extensions

      • CzesÅ‚aw Lejewski
      Pages 203-232

  7. Models in Science

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 231-231
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    2. A Representation of Animal Growth

      • F. T. C. Harris
      Pages 235-250
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Duke University, Durham,N.C, USA

    John R. Gregg

  • University of London, Middlesex Hospital Medical School, UK

    F. T. C. Harris

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Form and Strategy in Science

  • Book Subtitle: Studies Dedicated to Joseph Henry Woodger on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday

  • Editors: John R. Gregg, F. T. C. Harris

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3603-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company/Dordrecht-Holland 1964

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0018-6Due: 31 July 1964

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-3605-4Published: 17 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-3603-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 476

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science

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