Science at century's end : philosophical questions on the progress and limits of science
Pittsburgh-Konstanz series in the philosophy and history of science
(4th :
Pittsburgh-Konstanz series in the philosophy and history of science.
University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions
University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections
Science at the end of the century : prospects and limits of science / Extending ourselves / Limits of generative atomism : comments on Paul Humphrey's "extending ourselves" / Limits of natural science : Rescher's view / Toward the pale : cosmological Darwinism and The Limits of Science / Nicholas Rescher on The Limits of Science / Limits of science : replies and comments / How to pile up fundamental truths incessantly : on the prospect of reconciling scientific realism with unending progress / Can computers overcome our limitations? / Limits to self-observation / Thomas Breuer -- Blinded to history? : science and the constancy of nature / On kinds of timelessnes : comments on Nordmann
Metaphors and theoretical terms : problems in referring to the mental / Unity and the limits of science / Limits and the future of quantum theory / Limits to biological knowledge / Physicist's comment to Rosenberg / Limits of experimental method : experimenting on an entangled system : the case of biophysics / On some alleged differences between physics and biology / Models of error and the limits of experimental testing / Inductive logic and the growth of methodological knowledge : comment on Mayo / On modeling and simulations as instruments for the study of complex systems
Carrier, Martin.
Massey, Gerald J.
Ruetsche, Laura.
Pittsburgh-Konstanz Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science (4th : 1997 : University of Pittsburgh)
Martin Carrier, Gerald J. Massey, and Laura Ruetsche -- Paul Humphreys's -- Peter McLaughlin -- Robert Almeder -- Laura Ruetsche -- Jürgen Mittelstrass -- Nicholas Rescher -- Martin Carrier -- Nicholas Rescher -- Alfred Nordmann -- Richard Raatzsch.
Hans Julius Schneider -- Margaret Morrison -- Gordon N. Fleming -- Alex Rosenberg -- Michael Stöltzner -- Giora Hon -- Andreas Hüttemann -- Deborah G. Mayo -- Bernd Buldt -- Manfred Stöckler.
edited by Martin Carrier, Gerald J. Massey, and Laura Ruetsche.
