a Tribute on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Nicholas Rescher.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Dordrecht
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Springer Netherlands
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1969
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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(ix, 274 pages)
SERIES
Series Title
Synthese Library, Monographs on Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, Philosophy of Science, Sociology of Science and of Knowledge, and on the Mathematical Methods of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 24.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Reminiscences of Peter --;Natural Kinds --;Inductive Independence and the Paradoxes of Confirmation --;Partial Entailment as a Basis for Inductive Logic --;Are There Non-Deductive Logics? --;Statistical Explanation vs. Statistical Inference --;Newcomb's Problem and Two Principles of Choice --;The Meaning of Time --;Lawfulness as Mind-Dependent --;Events and Their Descriptions: Some Considerations --;The Individuation of Events --;On Properties --;A Method for Avoiding the Curry Paradox --;Publications (1934-1969) by Carl G. Hempel --;Index of Names.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The papers are grouped around the unifying topic of Hempel's own interests in logic and philosophy of science, the great majority dealing with issues on inductive logic and the theory of scientific explanatio- problems to which Hempel has devoted the bulk of his outstandingly fruitful efforts.