In the Scope of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science: Volume Two of the 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Cracow, August 1999 (Synthese Library, 316)

This is the second of two volumes containing papers submitted by the invited speakers to the 11th international Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, held in Cracow in 1999, under the auspices of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. The invited speakers are the leading researchers and accordingly the book presents the current state of the intellectual discourse in the respective fields. The papers delivered at the congress were divided into 17 sections. Thus the structure of the volume corresponds to the very schedule of the congress. Volume two contains the closing lecture by John Maynard Smith and the invited papers in sections of Philosophy of the Biological Sciences, Philosophy of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Linguistics, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Ethics of Science and Technology, History of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Philosophical Questions Raised by the History and Sociology of Science. It also contains invited papers in two special symposia: A Hundred Years of the Philosophy of Science and Cognitive Science Meets Philosophy of Science, as well as a special lecture delivered by Stanislaw Lem. We hope that the book could be of interest to philosophers, biologists, linguists, cognitive scientists, social scientists, sociologists, as well as historians and philosophers of science. Front Matter....Pages i-vi Front Matter....Pages 371-371 Biology and the Possible....Pages 373-385 On Genetic Information and Genetic Coding....Pages 387-400 Front Matter....Pages 401-401 Architecture-Based Conceptions of Mind....Pages 403-427 Front Matter....Pages 429-429 Linguistics as a System of Distinct Types of Ontology-Cum-Methodology....Pages 431-441 Front Matter....Pages 443-443 Philosophy and the Social Sciences....Pages 445-455 Assessing Game-Theoretic Explanations in the Social Sciences....Pages 457-470 In Defense of Mental Representation....Pages 471-493 Front Matter....Pages 495-495 Situated Knowledge and the Interplay of Value Judgments and Evidence in Scientific Inquiry....Pages 497-517 The Ways in which the Sciences are and are Not Value Free....Pages 519-532 Scientific Controversy and the Public Face of Science....Pages 533-547 Front Matter....Pages 549-549 Incommensurability and Empirical Comparability: The Case of the Phlogiston Theory....Pages 551-564 A Century of Inference: 1837–1936....Pages 565-580 Front Matter....Pages 581-581 Historical Ontology....Pages 583-600 Carnap and Kuhn: A Belated Encounter....Pages 603-620 Philosophy as Science: The Modernist Agenda of Philosophy of Science, 1900–1950....Pages 621-639 Philosophy of Science, 1950–2000: The Parting of the Ways....Pages 641-663 Patterns of Interaction among Philosophers of Science and Cognitive Scientists....Pages 667-685 The Concept of Information in Biology....Pages 689-699 On the Future of Science....Pages 703-709 Back Matter....Pages 711-734

This is the second of two volumes containing papers submitted by the invited speakers to the 11th international Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, held in Cracow in 1999, under the auspices of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. The invited speakers are the leading researchers and accordingly the book presents the current state of the intellectual discourse in the respective fields.