Robert Pippin’s Hegel as an Analytically Approachable Philosopher

Newton as Philosopher

Albert Einstein as a Philosopher of Science

© 2005 American Institute of Physics, S-0031-9228-0512-010-9 N explicit engagement with the philosophy of science plays almost no role in the training of physicists or in physics research. What little the student learns about philosophical issues is typically learned casually, by a kind of intellectual osmosis. One picks up ideas and opinions in the lecture hall, in the laboratory, and in colla...

Freud as Philosopher: Metapsychology After Lacan

The error statistical philosopher as normative naturalist

We argue for a naturalistic account for appraising scientific methods that carries non-trivial normative force. We develop our approach by comparison with Laudan’s (American Philosophical Quarterly 24:19–31, 1987, Philosophy of Science 57:20–33, 1990) “normative naturalism” based on correlating means (various scientific methods) with ends (e.g., reliability). We argue that such a meta-methodolo...

Uniformly approachable maps∗

Throughout the paper we will use the standard definitions and notation ([ABR], [E]). Let X and Y be metric spaces. The goal is to study some intermediate classes of functions between the class Cuc(X,Y ) of all uniformly continuous mappings (briefly, UC) from X into Y and the class C(X,Y ) of all continuous functions f :X → Y . These classes, defined below, have been intensively studied in [BD] ...