Title: Polish essays in the philosophy of the natural sciences /
Authors: Krajewski, Władysław.
Date: 1982
Publisher: D. Reidel ;
Physical description: xxviii, 487 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: Q
Contents: W. Krajewski -- Reflections on science and rationality / S. Amsterdamski -- The epistemological and methodological sense of the concept of rationality / A. Motycka -- On two kinds of conventionalism with respect to empirical sciences / A. Siemianowski -- Realism and instrumentalism : on a priori conditions of science / W. Niedźwiedzki -- Once more about empirical support / I. Szumilewicz-Lachman -- The context of discovery and the context of justification : a reappraisal / E. Chmielecka -- Continuity and anticumulative changes in the growth of science / E. Pietruska-Madej -- Some remarks in defense of the incommensurability thesis / A. Lodyński -- Marxism and the controversy over the development of science / A. Miś -- Are there definitively falsifying precedures in science? / J. Such -- The pluralistic approach to empirical testing and the special forms of experiment / W. Patryas -- Dialectial correspondence and essential truth / I. Nowakowa -- Testing idealizational laws / J. Szymański -- Practical idealization / M.K. Stasiak -- An interpretation of a concept in science by a set of operational procedures / J.M. Źytkow -- A formal definition of the concept of simplicity / W. Strawiński -- Characteristics of additive quantities / W. Kaluszyńska -- On the concept of matter / J. Misiek -- Time separation / Z. Augustynek -- Four conceptions of causation / W. Krajewski -- On the philosophy of mathematics / A. Lubomirski -- Information, regulation, negentropy / Z. Cackowski -- Information and signal / M. Lubański -- Principles of physics as meta-laws / T. Nadel-Turoński -- Structural laws in physics / M. Tempczyk -- Controversial problems of the probabilistic interpretaton of quantum phenomena / J. Rayski -- Quantum mechanics and the structure of physical theories / M. Bielecki -- Difficulties with the reduction of classical to relativistic mechanics / M. Czarnocka and J.M. Źytkow -- VI. Philosophy of biology and linguistics -- Genetic and historical explanation in biology / W. Mickiewicz-Olczyk -- The idealizational status of theoretical biology / K. Lastowski -- Chomsky's inconsistencies in his critique of evolutionary conceptions of language / Z. Piatek -- The problem of the chemical organization of matter in the light of a closed development model / A. Synowiecki -- An outline of a simulation model of science as a part of the model of action / R. Wawrzyńczak -- The notion of technological research and its place among other informational activities / E. Olszewski -- Difficulties with absolutism : the case of Von Weizäcker's philosophy / S. Olczyk and M. Przanowski.
Notes: Translated from the Polish.
Subject headings (LCSH): Philosophy, Polish.; Science--Methodology.; Science--Philosophy.