Probabilistic Thinking, Thermodynamics and the Interaction of the History and Philosophy of Science: Proceedings of the 1978 Pisa Conference on the Hi (Paperback, 1981)

Why Do We Find the Origin of a Calculus of Probabilities in the Seventeenth Century?.- Some Remarks on the Calculus of Probability in the Eighteenth Century.- Probability and the Problem of Induction.- Probabilities and Causes: On Life Tables, Causes of Death, and Etiological Diagnoses.- From the Emergence of Probability to the Erosion of Determinism.- John Venn's Logic of Chance.- Robert Leslie Ellis and the Frequency Theory.- Reduction as a Problem: Some Remarks on the History of Statistical Mechanics from a Philosophical Point of View.- Boltzmann's Conception of Theory Construction: The Promotion of Pluralism, Provisionalism, and Pragmatic Realism.- The Mach-Boltzmann Controversy and Maxwell's Views on Physical Reality.- Boltzmann, Mach and Russian Physicists of the Late Nineteenth Century.- An Example of a Theory-Frame: Equilibrium Thermodynamics.- What Have the History and Philosophy of Science to Do for One Another?.- A Comment on E. Agazzi, 'What Have the History and Philosophy of Science to Do for One Another?'.- Methodology and the Functional Identity of Science and Philosophy.- On Making History.- A Comment on J.D. North, 'On Making History'.- Reply to J.D. North, 'On Making History'.- Influences of Some Concepts of Biology on Progress in Philosophy.- Philosophy of Science, History of Science, and Science of Science.- Interrelations between History of Science and Philosophy of Science in Research in the Development of Technical Sciences.- From History of Science to Theory of Science: An Essay on V.I. Vernadsky's Work (1863-1945).- Utility versus Truth: At Least One Reflection on the Importance of the Philosophy of Science for the History of Science.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.