Spanish Studies in the Philosophy of Science (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 186)

An anthology of contemporary philosophy of science in Spain. Essays on 19th Century physics, the new cosmology, philosophy of biology, scientific rationality, philosophy of mathematics, phenomenology's account of scientific progress, science and ethics, philosophy of economics, methodology, and the philosophy of technology. Front Matter....Pages i-xviii The Story of a Non-Discovery: Helmholtz And The Conservation Of Energy....Pages 1-18 Empirical Methods in Mathematics....Pages 19-55 Philosophy and Cosmology....Pages 57-88 The Incompleteness of Technics....Pages 89-102 Bayesian Induction and Statistical Inference....Pages 103-121 The Nature of Science and the Problem of Demarcation....Pages 123-142 Biological and Moral Altruism....Pages 143-151 The Ultimate Epistemological Consequences of the Darwinian Conception....Pages 153-178 The Present Concept of the Gene....Pages 179-199 The Philosophy of Technology Assessment....Pages 201-226 The Biologization of our Culture....Pages 227-242 Four Instrumental Proposals....Pages 243-257 Prototype-Based Judgements and Skepticism about Rationality in Naturalized Epistemology....Pages 259-273 The Role of Methodology in Models of Scientific Change....Pages 275-297 Prediction and Mathematics: The Wittgensteinian Approach....Pages 299-332 Scientific Progress....Pages 333-343 Back Matter....Pages 345-363