PROBABILISTIC THINKING, THERMODYNAMICS AND THE INTERACTION OF THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, VOL. II

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ISBN 10: 9027711275 / ISBN 13: 9789027711274

Published by D. Reidel Publishing Co., Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 1981

About this Item

Volume II. This book has a gray and white dj with black lettering on a white spine. Some slight browning to dj; book itself is clean, tight and unmarked. This volume is the second in a set that collects the proceedings of the 1978 Pisa Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science. The presentations of speakers from various disciplines are collected herein on topics related to history, philosophy and scientific inquiry. 326 pages, plus publisher's information; approx. 6"x9".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: PROBABILISTIC THINKING, THERMODYNAMICS AND THE INTERACTION OF THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, VOL. II
• Publisher: D. Reidel Publishing Co., Dordrecht, the Netherlands
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027711275
• ISBN 13: 9789027711274
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • science

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Synopsis

The two volumes to which this is apreface consist of the Proceedings of the Second International Conference on History and Philosophy of Science. The Conference was organized by the Joint Commission of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science (IUHPS) under the auspices of the IUHPS, the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science, and the Domus Galilaeana of Pisa, headed by Professor Vincenzo Cappelletti. Domus Galilaeana also served as the host institution, with some help from the University of Pisa. The Conference took place in Pisa, Italy, on September 4-8, 1978. The editors of these two volumes of the Proceedings of the Pisa Conference acknowledge with gratitude the help by the different sponsoring organizations, and in the first place that by both Divisions of the IUHPS, which made the Conference possible. A special recognition is due to Professor Evandro Agazzi, President of the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science, who was co­ opted as an additional member of the Organizing Committee. This committee was otherwise identical with the Joint Commission, whose members were initially John Murdoch, John North, Arpad Szab6, Robert Butts, Jaakko Hintikka, and Vadim Sadovsky. Later, Erwin Hiebert and Lubos Novy were appointed as additional members.

About the Author

Jaakko Hintikka is the author or co-author of thirty volumes and of some 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, philosophy of science, history of ideas and history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Peirce, The Bloomsbury Group, Husserl and Wittgenstein. He has also been active in international scholarly organizations, most recently as the First Vice-President of FISP, Vice-President of IIP and Co-Chair of the American Organizing Committee of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Synthese and the Managing Editor of Synthese Library since 1965.