Contents
Preface
History of Science
1. What's New in Kepler's New Astronomy? -
Bernard R. Goldstein
2. Experiment, Community, and the
Constitution of Nature in the
Seventeenth Century -
Daniel Garber
3. Isaac Newton on Empirical Success and
Scientific Method -
William Harper
4. A Peek Behind the Veil of Maya:
Einstein, Schopenhauer, and the Historical
Background of the Conception of Space as a
Ground for the Individuation of Physical
Systems -
Don Howard
Foundations of Mathematics
and Physics
5. From Constructive to Predictive Mathematics - Geoffrey Hellman
6. Halfway Through the Woods: Contemporary Research on Space and Time - Carlo Rovelli
7. What Superpositions Feel Like -David Z Albert
8. The Preparation Problem in Quantum Mechanics - Linda Wessels
9. Schrodinger's Cat and Other Entanglements of Quantum Mechanics - Jeffrey Bub
10. Deterministic Chaos and the Nature of Chance - John A. Winnie
11. Models, the Brownian Motion, and the Disunities of Physics - R.I.G. Hughes
Induction, Scientific Methodology,
and the Philosophy of Science
12. The Continuum of Inductive Methods Revisited - Sandy L. Zabell
13. Science Without Induction - Frederick Suppe
14. That Just Don't Sound Right: A Plea for Real Examples - David L. Hull
15. A Logical Framework for the Notion of Natural Property - J. Michael Dunn
16. Singular Causation and Laws of Nature - David M. Armstrong
Action and Rationality
17. Action and Autonomy - Fred Dretske
18. Explanations Involving Rationality - Peter Railton
Index