Showing papers in "Philosophy and Phenomenological Research in 1977"

Collected papers on epistemology, philosophy of science and history of philosophy

Abstract: 1. The So-Called Circle of Understanding.- 2. 'The Problem of Causality'.- 3. Explanation, Prediction, Scientific Systematization and Non-Explanatory Information.- 1. Introduction.- 2. On Possible Conventions Governing the Use of 'Explanation' and 'Prediction'.- 3. An Additional Argument of Plausibility in favour of the Counterthesis.- 4. A Systematic Approach.- 5. Non-Explanatory Information.- 4. The Problem of Induction: Hume's Challenge and the Contemporary Answers.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Humean Challenge.- 3. Deductivism: K. Popper.- 4. Inductivism 1.- 5. Inductivism 2.- 6. Concluding Remarks.- 5. Carnap's Normative Theory of Inductive Probability.- 6. Logical Understanding and the Dynamics of Theories.- 7. Structures and Dynamics of Theories: Some Reflections on J.D. Sneed and T.S. Kuhn.- 8. Language and Logic.- 1. Preface.- 2. The Functions of 'Is'.- 3. 'All', 'Something', and 'Nothing'.- 4. 'I', 'You', 'He', 'She', 'It'.- 5. 'Not', 'And', 'Or', 'If ...Then'.- 6. Logical Truth.- 7. 'The'.- 8. 'It is Possible That ... ', 'It is Necessary That ...'.- 9. Remarks on the Completeness of Logical Systems Relative to the Validity-Concepts of P. Lorenzen and K. Lorenz.- Index of Names.

Twenty-five years of logical methodology in Poland

Abstract: Methodology and Metascience.- The Problem of the Rationality of Fallible Methods of Inference.- The Problem of Justifying Analytic Sentences.- Axiomatic Systems from the Methodological Point of View.- The Problem of Probabilistic Justification of Enumerative Induction.- Enumerative Induction and the Theory of Games.- On Testability in Empirical Sciences.- On the Theoretical Sense of the So-Called Observational Terms and Sentences.- The Pragmatic Foundations of Semantics.- Mathematical and Empirical Verifiability.- Meaning and Functional Reason.- On a Certain Condition of Semantic Theory of Knowledge.- On the Difference between Deductive and Non-Deductive Sciences.- On Ostensive Definitions.- The Controversy: Deductivism versus Inductivism.- Concepts and Problems in General Methodology and Methodology of the Practical Sciences.- The Foundations of a Methodological Analysis of Mill's Methods.- Semantic Representation of the Probability of Formulas in Formalized Theories.- Classification as a Kind of Distance Function. Natural Classifications.- The Physical Magnitude and Experience.- Probabilistic Definition on the Example of the Definition of Genotype.- Analytic Sentences in the Semantic System.- The Model of Empirical Sciences in the Concepts of the Creators of Marxism.- On the Empirical Meaningfulness of Sentences.- A Model-Theoretic Approach to the Problem of Interpretation of Empirical Languages.- Empirical Meaningfulness of Quantitative Statements.- The Problem of Analyticity.- A Method of Deciding between N Statistical Hypotheses.- Interpretations of the Maximum Likelihood Principle.- Two Concepts of Information.- Semantical Criteria of Empirical Meaningfulness.- Basic Concepts of Formal Methodology of Empirical Sciences.- Rational Belief, Probability and the Justification of Inductive Inference.