Essays in honor of Carl G. Hempel.
Subtitle: A tribute on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday.
By: Essays by Donald Davidson, Frederic B. Fitch, Adolf Grünbaum. [and others] Edited by Nicholas Rescher on behalf of the editorial committee.
Contributors: Hempel, Carl Gustav, 1905-; Davidson, Donald, 1917-; Rescher, Nicholas, ed.
Series: Synthese library
Publisher: D. Reidel
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Hempel, Carl Gustav, 1905-; Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Reminiscences of Peter, by P. Oppenheim.; title: Natural kinds, by W. V. Quine.; title: Inductive independence and the paradoxes of confirmation, by J. Hintikka.; title: Partial entailment as a basis for inductive logic, by W. C. Salmon.; title: Are there non-deductive logics?, by W. Sellars.; title: Statistical explanation vs. statistical inference, by R. C. Jeffre; title: Newcomb's problem and two principles of choice, by R. Nozick.; title: The meaning of time, by A. Grünbaum.; title: Lawfulness as mind-dependent, by N. Rescher.; title: Events and their descriptions: some considerations, by J. Kim.; title: The individuation of events, by D. Davidson.; title: On properties, by H. Putnam.; title: A method for avoiding the Curry paradox, by F. B. Fitch.; title: Publications (1934-1969) by Carl G. Hempel (p. [266]-270)