Nature and Scientific Method

The present volume is a collection of systematic and historical studies addressing the terms of Aristotelian inference. Contents Introduction Part I: Contemporary Issues 1. Rom Harre, Causality and Reality 2. Patrick A. Heelan, Hermeneutical Philosophy and the History of Science 3. Robert Sokolowski, Explaining 4. Jude P. Dougherty, Abstraction and Imagination in Human Understanding 5. Francis J. Collingwood, Duhem's Interpretation of Aristotle on Mathematics in Science 6. Nicholas Rescher, Baffling Phenomena 7. Mario Bunge, Basic Science Is Innocent; Applied Science and Technology Can Be Guilty Part II: Historical Studies 8. R. F. Hassing, Thomas Aquinas on Phys. VIl.l and the Aristotelian Science of the Physical Continuum 9. Jean De Groot, Philoponus on Separating the Three-Dimensional in Optics 10. Jean Dietz Moss, Ludovico Carbone's Commentary on Aristotle's De caelo 11. Richard J. Blackwell, Foscarini's Defense of Copernicanism 12. Edith Sylla, Galileo and Probable Arguments 13. Richard H. Kennington, Bacon's Critique of Ancient Philosophy in New Organon I 14. Andrew Croce Birch, The Problem of Method in Newton's Natural Philosophy 15. Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Kant's Metaphysics of Nature 16. Edward H. Madden, The Reidian Tradition: Growth of the Causal Concept Publications of William A. Wallace, O.P. Contributors Index