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An Intimate Relation

Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science Presented to Robert E. Butts on his 60th Birthday

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. James Robert Brown

    1. University of Toronto, Canada

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  2. Jürgen Mittelstrass

    1. Konstanz University, Germany

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 116)

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Apologia Pro Simplicio: Galileo and the Limits of Knowledge

    • Joseph C. Pitt
    Pages 1-22

  3. Cartesian Clarity and Cartesian Motion

    • William R. Shea
    Pages 23-42

  4. Hypotheses and Certainty in Cartesian Science

    • Margaret Morrison
    Pages 43-64

  5. Descartes and the Method of Analysis and Synthesis

    • Howard Duncan
    Pages 65-80

  6. Physical and Metaphysical Atomism: 1666–1682

    • Thomas M. Lennon
    Pages 81-95

  7. The Foundation of All Philosophy: Newton’s Third Rule

    • Kathleen Okruhlik
    Pages 97-113

  8. Consilience and Natural Kind Reasoning

    • William Harper
    Pages 115-152

  9. Leibniz’s ‘Hypothesis Physica Nova’: A Conjunction of Models for Explaining Phenomena

    • François Duchesneau
    Pages 153-170

  10. Russell’s Conundrum: On the Relation of Leibniz’s Monads to the Continuum

    • Richard T. W. Arthur
    Pages 171-201

  11. The Philosophers of Gambling

    • Nicholas Rescher
    Pages 203-220

  12. Reductive Realism and the Problem of Affection in Kant

    • Gerd Buchdahl
    Pages 221-241

  13. The Paradox of Transcendental Knowledge

    • Jaakko Hintikka
    Pages 243-257

  14. Mesmer in a Mountain Bar: Anthropological Difference, Butts, and Mesmerism

    • Gereon Wolters
    Pages 259-282

  15. History, Discovery and Induction: Whewell on Kepler on the Orbit of Mars

    • Andrew Lugg
    Pages 283-298

  16. For Method: Or, Against Feyerabend

    • Larry Laudan
    Pages 299-317

  17. World Pictures: The World of the History and Philosophy of Science

    • Jürgen Mittelstrass
    Pages 319-341

  18. Learning from the Past

    • James Robert Brown
    Pages 343-367

  19. Reduction without Reductionism?

    • Lorenz Krüger
    Pages 369-390

  20. Models of Scientific Knowledge

    • Vadim Sadovsky
    Pages 391-404
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About this book

The best philosophy of science during the last generation has been highly historical; and the best history of science, highly philosophical. No one has better exemplified this intimate relationship between history and philosophy than has Robert E. Butts in his work. Through­ out his numerous writings, science, its philosophy, and its history have been treated as a seamless web. The result has been a body of work that is sensitive in its conception, ambitious in its scope, and illuminat­ ing in its execution. Not only has his work opened new paths of inquiry, but his enthusiasm for the discipline, his encouragement of others (particularly students and younger colleagues), and his tireless efforts to build an international community of scholars, have stimulated the growth of HPS throughout Europe and North America. Many of the essays in this volume reflect that influence. Our title, of course, is deliberately ambiguous. The essays herein are by colleagues and former students, all of us wishing to honour an intimate friend. Happy Birthday, Bob! IX INTRODUCTION The essays herein cover a variety of concerns: from Descartes to reduction, from Galileo to gambling, from Freud's psychoanalysis to Kant's thing-in-itself. But under this diversity there is an approach common to them all. Things are largely done with a concern for and a sensitivity to historical matters (including contemporary history, of course).

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Toronto, Canada

    James Robert Brown

  • Konstanz University, Germany

    Jürgen Mittelstrass

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: An Intimate Relation

  • Book Subtitle: Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science Presented to Robert E. Butts on his 60th Birthday

  • Editors: James Robert Brown, Jürgen Mittelstrass

  • Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2327-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1989

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0169-1Published: 31 October 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7546-6Published: 27 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-2327-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 523

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, History, general

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