Teleology Revisited and Other Essays in the Philosophy and History of Science

Consists of the third of the John Dewey lectures delivered at Columbia University under the department of Philosophy and eleven additional essays. Focuses on the logic of scientific inquiry and some of its limitations. Acknowledgments Contents Introduction 1. Modern Science in Philosophical Perspective 2. Theory and Observation 3. Some Reflections on the Use of Language in the Natural Sciences 4. The Quest for Uncertainty 5. Philosophical Depreciations of Scientific Method 6. Issues in the Logic of Reductive Explanations 7. Carnap’s Theory of Induction 8. “Impossible Numbers”: A Chapter in the History of Modern Logic 9. The Formation of Modern Conceptions of Formal Logic in the Development of Geometry 10. Determinism and Development 11. Some Notes on Determinism 12. Teleology Revisited