Contents
Preface
Introduction: Science at the End of the Century: Prospects and Limits of Science / Martin Carrier, Gerald J. Massey, and Laura Reutsche
Frontiers of Knowledge
1. Extending Ourselves / Paul Humphreys
2. The Limits of Generative Atomism: Comment on Paul Humphreys's "Extending Ourselves" / Peter McLaughlin
3. The Limits of Natural Science: Rescher's View / Robert Almeder
4. Toward the Pale: Cosmological Darwinism and 'The Limits of Science' / Laura Ruetsche
5. Nicholas Rescher on the Limits of Science / Jurgen Mittelstrass
6. Limits of Science: Replies and Comments / Nicholas Rescher
7. How to Pile Up Fundamental Truths Incessantly: On the Prospect of Reconciling Scientific Realism with Unending Progress / Martin Carrier
8. Can Computers Overcome Our Limitations? / Nicholas Rescher
9. Limits to Self-Observation / Thomas Breuer
10. Blinded to History? : Science and the Constancy of Nature / Alfred Nordmann
11. On Kinds of Timelessness: Comment on Nordmann / Richard Raatzsch
12. Metaphors and Theoretical Terms: Problems in Referring to the Mental / Hans Julius Schneider
13. Unity and the Limits of Science / Margaret Morrison
Prospects for the Special Sciences
14. Limits and the Future of Quantum Theory / Gordon N. Fleming
15. Limits to Biological Knowledge / Alex Rosenberg
16. A Physicist's Comment to Rosenberg / Michael Stoltzner
17. The Limits of Experimental Method: Experimenting on an Entangled System: The Case of Biophysics / Giora Hon
18. On Some Alleged Differences between Physics and Biology / Andreas Huttemann
19. Models of Error and the Limits of Experimental Testing / Deborah G. Mayo
20. Inductive Logic and the Growth of Methodological Knowledge: Comment on Mayo / Bernd Buldt
21. On Modeling and Simulations as Instruments for the Study of Complex Systems / Manfred Stockler
Contributors
Index