Contents
Preface
1. Scientific Philosophy: The Other Side | Gereon Wolters
2. Geometry, Convention, and the Relativized A Priori: Reichenbach, Schlick, and Carnap | Michael Friedman
Comment | Joelle Proust
3. Einstein, Kant, and the Origins of Logical Empiricism | Don Howard
Comment: Einstein's Disenchantment | Thomas Oberdan
4. Scientific Explanation and Equivalent Descriptions | Felix Miihlholzer
Comment: Reichenbach on Realism | Wesley Salmon
5. Descriptive and Inductive Simplicity | Ilkka Niiniluoto
6. The Problem of Operational Definitions | Andreas Kamiah
Comment | Joelle Proust
7. Reichenbach on Quantum Mechanics | Itamar Pitowsky
8. On Reichenbach's Principle of the Common Cause | Wolfgang Spohn
9. Camap, Hempel, and Reichenbach on Scientific Realism | Wesley Salmon
10. With Camap, Beyond Camap: Metaphysics, Science, and the Realism/Instrumentalism Controversy | Paolo Parrini
Comment: Camap on Realism | Wesley Salmon
11. Functionalist Theories of Meaning and the Defense of Analyticity | Richard Creath
12. Camap and Quine | Neil Tennant
Comment | W. V. Quine
Index