Title: The Interaction between science and philosophy.
Authors: Elkana, Yehuda, 1934-2012; Sambursky, Samuel, 1900-; Elkana, Yehuda, 1934-2012,; Aḳademyah ha-leʼumit ha-Yiśreʼelit le-madaʻim; Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim; Van Leer Foundation for the Advancement of Human Culture
Publisher: Humanities Press
Year: 1974
Subjects: Science Philosophy Congresses; Science History Congresses; Science history
Contents: Concrete versus abstract theoretical models / Yuval Ne'eman -- How constant are the constants of physics? / Amos Yahil -- Discussion on papers by Ne'eman and Yahil -- Philosophy and the enterprise of science in the later middle ages / John Murdoch -- Philosophy, mathematics and the concepts of space in the Middle Ages / Shlomo Pines -- Discussion on papers by Murdoch and Pines -- Newton's 1672 optical controversies : a study in the grammar of scientific dissent / Zev Bechler -- Hegel's philosophy of nature / S. Sambursky -- Discussion on papers by Bechler and Sambursky -- The end of the Parmenidean era / Stephen Toulmin -- Discussion on paper by Toulmin -- History of science and its rational reconstruction / Imre Lakatos -- Boltzmann's scientific research program and its alternatives / Yehuda Elkana -- Discussion on papers by Lakatos and Elkana -- Newton's theory vs Kepler's theory and Galileo's theory / I. Bernard Cohen -- Mach's conception of thought experiments in the natural sciences / Erwin Hiebert -- Finding favor with the angel of the Lord : notes toward the psychobiographical study of scientific genius / Gerald Holton -- Discussion on papers by Hiebert and Holton -- Scientists as sleepwalkers / Joseph Agassi -- Revolution and reduction / Everett Mendelsohn -- Discussion on papers by Agassi and Mendelsohn -- The charisma of crystals in biology / J. Lorch -- Science and philosophy in the problem of the dimensionality of space / Max Jammer -- Statistical causality in atomic theory / Leon Rosenfeld -- Concluding words / S. Sambursky.