Wenceslao J. Gonzalez

Dennis Dieks

Marcel Weber

Stephan Hartmann

Maria Carla Galavotti

Thomas Uebel

This volume sheds light on still unexplored issues and raises new questions in the main areas addressed by the philosophy of science. Bringing together selected papers from three main events, the book presents the most advanced scientific results in the field and suggests innovative lines for further investigation. It explores how discussions on several notions of the philosophy of science can help different scientific disciplines in learning from each other. Finally, it focuses on the relationship between Cambridge and Vienna in twentieth century philosophy of science. The areas examined in the book are: formal methods, the philosophy of the natural and life sciences, the cultural and social sciences, the physical sciences and the history of the philosophy of science.

New Directions in the Philosophy of Science

A. Pagnini

The papers collected here comprise the proceedings of a Workshop in honor ofMerrilee and Wes Salmon, held in Florence on May 17-18, 1996. The aim of the meeting was to pay homage to these two American scholars, whose contact with Italian and European Universities and Institutes had a major influence on "Continental" thought in the field of epistemology and probability. In fact, Merrilee and Wes spent various periods lecturing at the Universities of Bologna, Florence, Rome, Trieste, Catania and Pisa, as well as in the University of Constance, where they helped to build a strong cultural "bridge" with the Pittsburgh Center for the Philosophy of Science. The Florence Center for the History and Philosophy of Science is particularly thankful to the Salmons for their ongoing cooperation and frequent visits. We must not forget that Wes Salmon was in the Florence Center and at the Philosophy Department of Florence, as visiting scholar, on many occasions, and that he made important contributions which have later appeared in Italian journals, such as Iride and Rivista di jilosojia. Merrilee was a speaker at the Conference on "Genetics, Linguistics, and Archaeology" (May 20-24,1991), organized by the Florence Center. Both Wes and Merrilee often enlivened the arguments of the initiatives they took part in.

Workshop in Honour of Merrilee and Wesley Salmon

Experience, Reality, and Scientific Explanation

D. Costantini

The book is a collection of essays on various issues in philosophy of science, with special emphasis on the foundations of probability and statistics, and quantum mechanics. The main topics, addressed by some of the most outstanding researchers in the field, are subjective probability, Bayesian statistics, probability kinematics, causal decision making, probability and realism in quantum mechanics.

Essays in Honour of Richard C. Jeffrey

Probability, Dynamics and Causality

This volume sheds new light on the multifarious personality of Bruno de Finetti and his outstanding contributions not only to probability and statistics, but also to economics and philosophy. Rather than focusing on de Finetti's technical work on probability, the essays collected here address the philosophy underpinning all of de Finetti's writings, a view Richard Jeffrey labelled "radical probabilism". Special attention is devoted to de Finetti's ideas on economics, which are inspired by the same philosophical approach, while an effort is made to highlight some lesser known aspects of de Finetti's production. The volume ends with an Appendix on de Finetti's book L'invenzione della verit (The invention of truth), written in 1934 and published in 2006, which contains an extensive presentation of de Finetti's philosophical viewpoint, revolving around the idea that our knowledge is the product of human thought, which in such enterprise is guided by considerations of utility, rather than metaphysical principles.

Bruno de Finetti, Radical Probabilist

Raffaella Campaner

La spiegazione è senza alcun dubbio l’oggetto di uno dei più vasti capitoli della filosofia della scienza, al centro di un dibattito che dalla prima formulazione dei modelli di Hempel è andato sempre più articolandosi, e arricchendosi di nuovi orientamenti. Verso la fine degli anni Ottanta tale dibattito aveva già raggiunto proporzioni tali da indurre Wesley Salmon a tracciarne la storia nel saggio «40 anni di spiegazione scientifica» (1989). A più di vent’anni dall’uscita del testo di Salmon, il presente volume si propone di offrire una panoramica dell’ampio ventaglio di prospettive che si sono confrontate a proposito della natura della spiegazione scientifica dagli anni Quaranta a oggi, con particolare attenzione alle interazioni e intersezioni tra i diversi approcci e alle applicazioni suggerite dalle teorie più recenti.

Maria Carla Galavotti

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