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The present volume collects some of the talks given at the Bertrand Russell Colloquium on Exact Philosophy, attached to the McGill University Foundations and Philosophy of Science Unit.

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I: Introduction.- Bertrand Russell’s regulae philosophandi.- II: Formal Science.- Mathematics and Ontology.- Gaps Between Logical Theory and Mathematical Practice.- III: Physics.- Relativity and Covariance.- IV: Biology.- Preliminary Remarks on the Organ-Function Relation.- The Logical Status of the Theory of Natural Selection and Other Evolutionary Controversies.- V: Psychology.- On Confusing ‘Measure’ with ‘Measurement’ in the Methodology of Behavioral Science.- Theoretical Concepts in Neobehavioristic Theories.- VI: Political Science.- Voting Rules and Coordination Problems.- VII: Historiography.- Historical Time and a New Conception of the Historical Sciences.- VIII: Ethics.- Some Problems of Ought-Utilitarianism, Valuation, and Deontic Logic.- IX: Metaphysics.- Human Freedom and 1568 Versions of Determinism and Indeterminism.

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9789027704047: The Methodological Unity of Science: 3

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ISBN 10:  902770404X ISBN 13:  9789027704047
Casa editrice: Springer, 2008
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