Nature and Scientific Method

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The present volume is a collection of systematic and historical studies addressing the terms of Aristotelian inference. Introduction - vii PART I: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES 1. Rom Harre, Causality and Reality - 3 2. Patrick A. Heelan, Hermeneutical Philosophy and the History of Science - 23 3. Robert Sokolowski, Explaining - 37 4. Jude P. Dougherty, Abstraction and Imagination in Human Understanding - 51 5. Francis J. Collingwood, Duhem’s Interpretation of Aristotle on Mathematics in Science - 63 6. Nicholas Rescher, Baffling Phenomena - 81 7. Mario Bunge, Basic Science Is Innocent; Applied Science and Technology Can Be Guilty - 95 PART II: HISTORICAL STUDIES 8. R. F. Hassing, Thomas Aquinas on Phys. VII. 1 and the Aristotelian Science of the Physical Continuum - 109 9. Jean de Groot, Philoponus on Separating the Three-Dimensional in Optics - 157 10. Jean Dietz moss, Ludovico Carbone’s Commentary on Aristotle’s De Caelo - 175 11. Richard J. Blackwell, Foscarini’s Defense of Copernicanism - 199 12. Edith Sylla, Galileo and Probable Arguments - 211 13. Richard H. Kennington, Bacon’s Critique of Ancient Philosophy in New Organon I - 235 14. Andrea Croce Birch, The Problem of Method in Newton’s Natural Philosophy - 253 15. Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Kant’s Metaphysics of Nature - 271 16. Edward H. Madden, The Reidian Tradition: Growth of the Causal Concept - 291 Publications of William A. Wallace, O.P. - 309 Contributors - 319 Index - 323