Philosophical Problems of the Internal and External Worlds: Essays on the Philosophy of Adolf Grünbaum (Pittsburgh-Konstanz Series in the Philosophy & History of Science) - Hardcover

John Earman; Etc.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0822937387 ISBN 13: 9780822937388

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994

Synopsis

One of a series of books to be published jointly by the presses of the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Konstanz. The inaugural volume in this new series is devoted to the work of the philospher Adolf Gruenbaum, whose professional interests have ranged from the philosophy of physics to the foundations of psychoanalysis.

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About the Author

John Earman (Editor)
John Earman is University Professor in the History and Philosopy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of numerous books including: Hume's Abject Failure: The Argument Against Miracles; World Enough and Space-time: Absolute vs. Relational Theories of Space and Time; Bayes or Bust: A Critical Examination of Bayesian Confirmation Theory; Bangs, Crunches, Whimpers and Shrieks: Singularities and Acausalities in Relativistic Spacetimes.

Allen Janis (Editor)
Allen I. Janis is professor emeritus in the department of physics and astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh.

Gerald J. Massey (Editor)
Gerald J. Massey is Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. From 1988 to 1997 he was director of the University of Pittsburgh’s renowned Center for Philosophy of Science. For the past several years he has been investigating the philosophical implications of the sciences of animals in an effort to create a new field that he calls philosophical ethology. In 1997, German President Roman Herzog conferred on him the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse) for his contributions to German-American Philosophy.

Nicholas Rescher (Editor)
Nicholas Rescher was Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh and co-chairman of the Center for Philosophy of Science. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he served as president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, the Leibniz Society of North America, the Charles S. Peirce Society, the American Catholic Philosophical Association, and the Metaphysical Society of America. Rescher was the author or editor of more than one hundred books, including Ignorance (On the Wider Implications of Deficient Knowledge), Philosophical Inquiries: An Introduction to Problems of Philosophy, and A Journey through Philosophy in 101 Anecdotes.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822937387
• ISBN 13: 9780822937388
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 640