Philosophical Problems of Internal and External Worlds - Essays on Philosophy of Adolf Grunbaum

Table of contents :
Part 1
Space, Time, Cosmology
1. Physical Force or Geometrical Curvature? Einstein, Gruenbaum and the Measurability of Physical Geometry, Martin Carrier;
2. Substantivalism and the Hole Argument, Carl Hoffer and Nancy Cartwright;
3. The Cosmic Censorship Hypothesis, John Earman;
4. From Time to Time - Remarks on the Difference Between the Time of Nature and the Time of Man, Jurgen Mittelstrass;
5. The Conventionality of Simultaneity, Michael Redhead;
6. The Meaning of General Covariance - the Hole Story, John Stachel.
Part 2
Scientific Rationality and Methodology
7. Sciences and Pseudosciences - An Attempt at a New Form of Demarcation, Robert E. Butts;
8. The End of Epistemology?, Paul Feyerabend;
9. Seven Theses on Thought Experiments, Paul Humphreys;
10. On the Alleged Temporal Anisotropy of Explanation - A Letter to Professor Adolf Gruenbaum, Wesley C. Salmon;
11. A New Theory of Reduction in Physics, Erhard Scheibe;
12. Analogy by Similarity in Hyper-Carnapian Inductive Logic, Brian Skyrms;
13. Capacities and Invariance, James Woodward;
14. Falsification, Rationality and the Duhem Problem - Gruenbaum Versus Bayes, John Worrall.
Part 3
Philosophy of Psychiatry
15. The Dynamics of Theory Change in Psychoanalysis, Morris Eagle;
16. Philosophers on Freudianism - An Examination of Replies to Gruenbaum's ""Foundations"", Edward Erwin;
17. How Freud Left Science, Clark Glymour;
18. Isomorphism and the Modelling of Brain-Mind State, J. Allan Hobson;
19. Psychoanalytic Conceptions of the Borderline Personality - a Sociocultural Alternative, Theodore Millon;
20. On a Contribution to a Future Scientific Study of Dream Interpretation, Rosemarie Sand.
Part 4
Freedom and Determinism - Science and Religion
21. Indeterminism and the Freedom of the Will, Arthur Fine;
22. Adolf Gruenbaum and the Compatibilist Thesis, John Watkins;
23. Creation, Conservation and the Big Bang, Philip L. Quinn.
Part 5
Moral Problems
24. Moral Obligation and the Refugee, Nicholas Rescher.
Name Index

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Philosophical Problems of the Internal and External Worlds Essays on the Philosophy of Adolf Griinbaum

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John Earman, Allen I. Janis, Gerald J. Massey, and Nicholas Rescher

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Space, Time, Cosmology