Logic, Language, and the Structure of Scientific Theories
Subtitle: Proceedings of the Carnap-Reichenbach Centennial, University of Konstanz, 21-24 May 1991 (Pittsburgh-Konstanz ... in the Philosophy & History of Science)
Contributors: Gereon Wolters (Editor)
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: October 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780822937401
Subjects: Philosophy Of Science; Philosophy (General); Philosophy; Science; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Logic; Carnap, Rudolf,; Congresses; History
Description: Logic, Language, and the Structure of Scientific Theories, the second book in the Pittsburgh-Konstanz Series, marks the centennial of the births of Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach. Original essays by internationally distinguished scholars range from epistemology and philosophy of language to logic, semantics, the philosophy of physics and mathematics. In the realm of philosophy of physics it focuses upon such topics as space, time, and causality, which play fundamental roles in relativity theory and quantum mechanics. --Publisher description.