Contents
Introduction
Part I: Contemporary Issues
1. Rom Harre, Causality and Reality
2. Patrick A. Heelan, Hermeneutical Philosophy and the History of Science
4. Jude P. Dougherty, Abstraction and Imagination in Human Understanding
5. Francis J. Collingwood, Duhem's Interpretation of Aristotle on Mathematics in Science
6. Nicholas Rescher, Baffling Phenomena
7. Mario Bunge, Basic Science Is Innocent; Applied Science and Technology Can Be Guilty
Part II: Historical Studies
8. R. F. Hassing, Thomas Aquinas on Phys. VIl.l and the Aristotelian Science of the Physical Continuum
9. Jean De Groot, Philoponus on Separating the Three-Dimensional in Optics
10. Jean Dietz Moss, Ludovico Carbone's Commentary on Aristotle's De caelo
11. Richard J. Blackwell, Foscarini's Defense of Copernicanism
12. Edith Sylla, Galileo and Probable Arguments
13. Richard H. Kennington, Bacon's Critique of Ancient Philosophy in New Organon I
14. Andrew Croce Birch, The Problem of Method in Newton's Natural Philosophy
15. Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Kant's Metaphysics of Nature
16. Edward H. Madden, The Reidian Tradition: Growth of the Causal Concept
Publications of William A. Wallace, O.P.
Contributors
Index