Lewis and Schlick

Causality: from Hume, via Schlick

DNA Polymerases Structure , Function , and Modeling Tamar Schlick

The transmission of our instruction book for life — the DNA genome — from one generation to the next describes both similarities to our parents and differences that make us unique. How this duplication occurs and how this process leads to differences via mutations is a fundamental problem in both basic and applied research. As Watson and Crick observed in their landmark 1953 Nature work reporti...

Husserl and Schlick on the Logical Form of Experience

Over a period of several decades spanning the origin of the Vienna Circle, Schlick repeatedly attacked Husserl’s phenomenological method for its reliance on the ability to intuitively grasp or see essences. Aside from its significance for phenomenologists, the attack illuminates significant and little-explored tensions in the history of analytic philosophy as well. For after coming under the in...

Expression of Lewis(x), sialylated Lewis(x), Lewis(a), and sialylated Lewis(a) antigens in human lung carcinoma.

One hundred and five cases of various human lung neoplasms were studied immunohistochemically using monoclonal antibodies recognizing the antigens, Le(x), sialylated Le(x) (SLEX), Le(a), and sialylated Le(a) (SLEA). Of the 92 lung cancers examined for antigen expression SLEX was detected in 57% (52 cases), Le(x) in 42% (39), SLEA in 36% (33), and Le(a) in 23% (21). None of these antigens were e...

Schlick/Hong Qian and van Fraassen: Two Different Perspectives on Causality and Quantum Mechanics

Hong Qian’s doctoral thesis discusses Moritz Schlick’s interpretation of the causality principle. This interpretation is based on Schlick’s understanding of quantum mechanics and on his conviction that quantum mechanics strongly supports an empiricist reading of causation in his sense. The present paper compares the empiricist position held by Schlick and Hong Qian with Bas van Fraassen’s more ...