PSA 1974

Symposium: the Unity of Science.- Unified Theories and Unified Science.- Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics and the Complexity of Reductions.- Theory Generalization, Problem Reduction and the Unity of Science.- Contributed Papers: Session I.- Galileo and Reasoning Ex Suppositione: The Methodology of the Two New Sciences.- The Erkenntnistheoretiker’s Dilemma: J.B. Stallo’s Attack on Atomism in his Concepts and Theories of Modern Physics (1881).- Symposium: Genetics, IQ and Education.- Fictionalism, Functionalism and Factor Analysis.- IQ, Heritability, and Human Nature.- The IQ Controversy and the Philosophy of Education.- Contributed Papers: Session II.- Evolutionary Rationality.- Laws and Meaning Postulates (in van Fraassen’s View of Theories).- Meaning in Science and Mathematics.- Observationality and the Comparability of Theories.- Symposium: Science Education and the Philosophy of Science.- The Relevance of Philosophy of Science for Science Education.- Metaphorical Models of Mastery: Or, How to Learn to Do the Problems at the End of the Chapter of the Physics Textbook.- Philosophy of Science, History of Science, and Science Education.- Contributed Papers: Session III.- Causes and Deductive Explanation.- On Defending the Covering-Law ‘Model’ Comment:.- Dispositional Explanation and the Covering-Law Model: Response to Laird Addis.- The Likeness of Lawlikeness.- TWO Forms of Determinism.- The Conventionality of Slow-Transport Synchrony.- Symposium: Technology Assessment.- The Bicentenary of Technology Assessment.- Assurance and Agnosticism.- Technology Assessment as a Critique of a Civilization.- Symposium: Velikovsky and the Politics of Science.- The Domination of Astronomy Over Other Disciplines.- Some Comments on Velikovsky’s Methodology.- Velikovsky Versus Academic Lag (The Problem of Hypothesis).- Symposium: Quantum Logic.- Quantum Logic.- The ‘Logic’ of ‘Quantum Logic’.- Contributed Papers: Session IV.- Integrating the Philosophy and the Social Psychology of Science, or a Plague on Two Houses Divided.- The Illusions of Experience.- Symposium: Development of the Philosophy of Science.- Some Current Trends in Philosophy of Science: With Special Attention to Confirmation, Theoretical Entities, and Mind-Body.- History and Philosophy of Science: A Marriage of Convenience?.- Philosophy of Language and Philosophy of Science.- Symposium: History and Philosophy of Biology.- Reductionism in Biology: Prospects and Problems.- Reduction in Genetics.- Informal Aspects of Theory Reduction.- Reductive Explanation: A Functional Account.- Contributed Papers: Session V.- How Do We Apply Science?.- What Is The Logical Interpretation Of Quantum Mechanics?.- Index of Names.