Theory Change, Ancient Axiomatics, and Galileos Methodology: Proceedings of the 1978 Pisa Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science Volume I (Synthese Library, 145)

__Jaakko Hintikka__ is the author or co-author of thirty volumes and of some 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, philosophy of science, history of ideas and history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Peirce, The Bloomsbury Group, Husserl and Wittgenstein. He has also been active in international scholarly organizations, most recently as the First Vice-President of FISP, Vice-President of IIP and Co-Chair of the American Organizing Committee of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal __Synthese__ and the Managing Editor of __Synthese____Library__ since 1965. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Growth of Theories: Comments on the Structuralist Approach....Pages 3-47 Logic and the Theory of Scientific Change....Pages 49-61 What have they Done to Kuhn?....Pages 63-86 Comment on Zev Bechler’s Paper ‘What have they done to Kuhn?’....Pages 87-91 Comments on Bechler, Niiniluoto and Sadovsky....Pages 93-104 The Sociological and the Methodological in the Study of Changes in Science....Pages 105-109 Front Matter....Pages 111-111 Concerning the Ancient Greek Ideal of Theoretical Thought....Pages 113-124 Was there an Eleatic Background to Pre-Euclidean Mathematics?....Pages 125-131 Aristotelian Axiomatics and Geometrical Axiomatics....Pages 133-144 On The Early History of Axiomatics: The Interaction of Mathematics and Philosophy in Greek Antiquity....Pages 145-186 Some Remarks on the Controversy Between Prof. Knorr And Prof. Szabó....Pages 187-191 On The Early History of Axiomatics: A Reply To Some Criticisms....Pages 193-196 Limitations of the Axiomatic Method in Ancient Greek Mathematical Sciences....Pages 197-213 On Axiomatic and Genetic Construction of Mathematical Theories....Pages 215-221 On The Role of Axiomatic Method in the Development of Ancient Mathematics....Pages 223-225 Front Matter....Pages 227-227 Galilée Et La Mécanisation Du Systéme Du Monde....Pages 229-251 Galileo and the Post-Renaissance....Pages 253-257 Galileo and the Methods of Science....Pages 259-270 Philosophical Presuppositions and Shifting Interpretations of Galileo....Pages 271-286 Creative Work as an Object of Theoretical Understanding....Pages 287-310 Front Matter....Pages 227-227 Galileo and the Emergence of a New Scientific Style....Pages 311-339 Philosophy of Science and the Art of Historical Interpretation....Pages 341-348 Back Matter....Pages 349-360 The two volumes to which this is a preface consist of the Proceedings of the Second International Conference on History and Philosophy of Science. The Conference was organized by the Joint Commission of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science (IUHPS) of the IUHPS, the Italian Society for Logic and under the auspices Philosophy of Science, and the Domus Galilaeana of Pisa, headed by Professor Vincenzo Cappelletti. Domus GaIilaeana also served as the host institution, with some help from the University of Pisa. The Conference took place in Pisa, Italy, on September 4-8, 1978. The editors of these two volumes of the Proceedings of the Pisa Conference acknowledge with gratitude the help by the different sponsoring organizations, and in the first place that by both, Divisions of the IUHPS, which made the Conference possible.' A special recognition is due to Professor Evandro Agazzi, President of the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science, who was co opted as an additional member of the Organizing Committee. This committee was otherwise identical with the Joint Commission, whose members were initially John Murdoch, John North, Arpad Szab6, Robert Butts, Jaakko Hintikka, and Vadim Sadovsky. Later, Erwin Hiebert and Lubos Novy were appointed as additional members. Jaakko Hintikka is the author or co-author of thirty volumes and of some 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, philosophy of science, history of ideas and history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Peirce, The Bloomsbury Group, Husserl and Wittgenstein. He has also been active in international scholarly organizations, most recently as the First Vice-President of FISP, Vice-President of IIP and Co-Chair of the American Organizing Committee of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Synthese and the Managing Editor of Synthese Library since 1965. Proceedings of the 1978 Pisa, Italy, September 4-8, 1978 Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science