Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science VIII: Proceedings Moscow, 1987

Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science VIII ......Page 3
Copyright Page ......Page 4
Contents ......Page 11
Preface ......Page 5
Appendix to the Preface ......Page 7
Presidential Address ......Page 15
INAUGURAL ADDRESS ......Page 19
Philosophy, Science and Man ......Page 21
INTERSECTIONAL SYMPOSIUM: NEW PATTERNS OF EXPLANATION IN SCIENCE ......Page 45
The Rediscovery of Time ......Page 47
INTERSECTIONAL SYMPOSIUM: SCIENCE AND ETHICS ......Page 65
Ethics and Science ......Page 67
Is There Anything We Should not Want to Know? ......Page 81
The Ethics of Science as a Form of the Cognition of Science ......Page 97
CHAPTER 1. FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICAL REASONING ......Page 109
Non-monotonic Reasoning by Axiomatic Extensions ......Page 111
Inexact and Inductive Reasoning ......Page 129
Problems of Admissibility and Substitution, Logical Equations and Restricted Theories of Free Algebras ......Page 139
CHAPTER 2. MODEL THEORY ......Page 159
On the Existence of End Extensions of Models of Bounded Induction ......Page 161
Towards the Structural Stability Theory ......Page 181
CHAPTER 3. FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTING AND RECURSION THEORY ......Page 195
Automorphisms of the Lattice of Recursively Enumerable Sets and Hyperhypersimple Sets ......Page 197
Degrees of Functions with No Fixed Points ......Page 209
CHAPTER 4. SET THEORY ......Page 221
Free Sets for Commutative Families of Functions ......Page 223
Polarized Partition Relations and Almost-Disjoint Functions ......Page 231
A Dilworth Decomposition Theorem for λ -Suslin Quasi-Orderings of R ......Page 241
CHAPTER 5. GENERAL LOGIC ......Page 263
Logic and Pragmatic Truth ......Page 265
The Justification of Negation as Failure ......Page 281
First-Order Spacetime Geometry ......Page 321
CHAPTER 6. GENERAL METHODOLOGY OF SCIENCE ......Page 335
Strong and Weak Methods ......Page 337
Impact of Global Modelling on Modern Methodology of Science ......Page 351
Conceptual Change and the Progress of Science ......Page 369
Scientific Method and the Objectivity of Epistemic Value Judgments ......Page 391
CHAPTER 7. FOUNDATIONS OF PROBABILITY AND STATISTICAL INFERENCE ......Page 409
The Interface Between Statistics and the Philosophy of Science ......Page 411
Astronomical Improbability ......Page 431
Probability in Dynamical Systems ......Page 445
CHAPTER 8. FOUNDATIONS OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES ......Page 463
An Axiomatic Basis as a Desired Form of a Physical Theory ......Page 465
On Learning from the Mistakes of Positivists ......Page 477
CHAPTER 9. FOUNDATIONS OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES ......Page 497
EvolutionMatter of Fact or Metaphysical Idea? ......Page 499
Evolutionary Altruism and Psychological Egoism ......Page 513
CHAPTER 10. FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOLOGY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCES ......Page 533
Vision and Mind ......Page 535
CHAPTER 11. FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIAL SCIENCES ......Page 547
Rationality and Social Norms ......Page 549
On the Nature of a Social Order ......Page 571
CHAPTER 12. FOUNDATIONS OF LINGUISTICS ......Page 587
Informational Independence as a Semantical Phenomenon ......Page 589
How Natural is Natural Language? ......Page 609
CHAPTER 13. HISTORY OF LOGIC, METHODOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE ......Page 625
Leibniz and the Philosophical Analysis of Science ......Page 627
The Logical Ideas of N.A. Vasiliev and Modern Logic ......Page 643
Phenomenalism, Relativity and Atoms: Rehabilitating Ernst Machs Philosophy of Science ......Page 659
Contributed Papers ......Page 679
Index of Names ......Page 711