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Epistemology, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science

Essays in Honour of Carl G. Hempel on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday, January 8th 1985

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  1. W. K. Essler

    1. University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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    1. Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

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  3. W. Stegmüller

    1. University of Munich, Germany

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Professor C. G. Hempel (known to a host of admirers and friends as 'Peter' Hempel) is one of the most esteemed and best loved philosophers in the If an Empiricist Saint were not somewhat of a Meinongian Impos­ world. sible Object, one might describe Peter Hempel as an Empiricist Saint. In­ deed, he is as admired for his brilliance, intellectual flexibility, and crea­ tivity as he is for his warmth, kindness, and integrity, and does not the presence of so many wonderful qualities in one human being assume the dimensions of an impossibility? But Peter Hempel is not only possible but actual! One of us (Hilary Putnam) remembers vividly the occasion on which he first witnessed Hempel 'in action'. It was 1950, and Quine had begun to attack the analytic/synthetic distinction (a distinction which Carnap and Reichenbach had made a cornerstone, if not the keystone, of Logical Em­ piricist philosophy). Hempel, who is as quick to accept any idea that seems to contain real substance and insight as he is to demolish ideas that are empty or confused, was one of the first leading philosophers outside of Quine's immediate circle to join Quine in his attack. Hempel had come to Los Angeles (where Reichenbach taught) on a visit, and a small group consisting of Reichenbach and a few of his graduate students were gath­ ered together in Reichenbach's home to hear Hempel defend the new posi­ tion.

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-4
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  2. On Inductive Support and Some Recent Tricks

    • Haim Gaifman
    Pages 5-21

  3. Inductive Inference in the Limit

    • Clark Glymour
    Pages 23-31

  4. Probability and Laws

    • D. Costantini
    Pages 33-49

  5. Commensurability, Incommensurability, and Cumulativity in Scientific Knowledge

    • Evandro Agazzi
    Pages 51-77

  6. Social Habits and Enlightened Cooperation: Do Humans Measure up to Lewis Conventions?

    • Eike Von Savigny
    Pages 79-96

  7. Theoretical Terms and Bridge Principles: A Critique of Hempel’s (Self-)Criticisms

    • C. Ulises Moulines
    Pages 97-117

  8. On Reduction of Theories

    • Andreas Kamlah
    Pages 119-142

  9. Reflexive Reflections

    • Hilary Putnam
    Pages 143-153

  10. Explaining the Actions of the Explainers

    • Annette Baier
    Pages 155-173

  11. On Explaining Beliefs

    • Noretta Koertge
    Pages 175-186

  12. Explaining the Unpredictable

    • Patrick Suppes
    Pages 187-195

  13. The Logician’s Dilemma: Deductive Logic, Inductive Inference and Logical Empiricism

    • Richard N. Boyd
    Pages 197-252

  14. Explanation in Physical Cosmology: Essay in Honor of C. G. Hempel’s Eightieth Birthday

    • B. Kanitscheider
    Pages 253-263

  15. Statements and Pictures

    • Nelson Goodman
    Pages 265-269

  16. Truth and Best Explanation

    • Raimo Tuomela
    Pages 271-299

  17. Utility Theory and Preference Logic

    • Rainer W. Trapp
    Pages 301-339

  18. Der Erste Wiener Kreis

    • Rudolf Haller
    Pages 341-358

  19. Are Synoptic Questions Illegitimate?

    • Nicholas Rescher
    Pages 359-363

  20. On Determining Dispositions

    • W. K. Essler
    Pages 365-368
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Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    W. K. Essler

  • Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

    H. Putnam

  • University of Munich, Germany

    W. Stegmüller

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Epistemology, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science

  • Book Subtitle: Essays in Honour of Carl G. Hempel on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday, January 8th 1985

  • Editors: W. K. Essler, H. Putnam, W. Stegmüller

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1456-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1985

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1912-6Published: 31 January 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8410-1Published: 25 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-1456-3Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: III, 484

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, Epistemology

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