Proceedings of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science 1966/1968

The fourth volume of Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science consists mainly of papers which were contributed to our Colloquium during the past few years. The volume represents a wide range of interests in contem­ porary philosophy of science: issues in the philosophy of mind and of language, the neurophysiology of perceptual and linguistic behavior, philosophy of history and of the social sciences, and studies in the fun­ damental categories and methods of philosophy and the inter-relation­ ships of the sciences with ethics and metaphysics. Papers on the logic and methods of the natural sciences, including biological, physical and mathematical topics appear in the fifth volume of our series. We have included in the present volume the first English translation of the classic and fundamental work on aphasia by Carl Wernicke, together with a lucid and appreciative guide to his work by Dr. Norman Geschwind. The papers were not written to form a coherent volume, nor have they been edited with such a purpose. They represent current work-in­ progress, both in the United States and in Europe. Although most of the authors are philosophers, it is worth noting that we have essays of philosophical significance here written by a sociologist, an anthropologist, a political scientist, and by three neurophysiologists. We hope that collaboration among working scientists and working philosophers may develop further.

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The Work and Influence of Wernicke.- The Symptom Complex of Aphasia: A Psychological Study on an Anatomical Basis.- Anatomy and the Higher Functions of the Brain.- What is Perception?.- Knowledge, Language and Rationality. Statement of the Problem.- Comments: Language and Knowledge, by Stephen Toulmin.- A Parallelism Between Wittgensteinian and Aristotelian Ontologies.- Wolniewicz on Wittgenstein and Aristotle.- The Computer as Gadfly.- The Subject of Cultural Creation.- Dialectical Materialism and the Philosophy of Praxis.- Theory in History.- Understanding and Participant Observation in Cultural and Social Anthropology.- Comments: Theory and Practice of Participant-Observation, by Judith B. Agassi.- Comments: Participant-Observation and the Collection of Data, by Sidney W. Mintz.- Patterns of Use of Science in Ethics.- Comments by Ruth Anna Putnam.- Comments on Abraham Edel's 'Patterns of Use of Science in Ethics', by John Ladd.- On Empirical Knowledge.- Comments on 'On Empirical Knowledge', by John Compton.- Causal Connection.- Some Comments to 'Causal Connection', by M. M. Schuster.- Causality and the Notion of Necessity.- Unity and Diversity in Science.- On Methods of Refutation in Metaphysics.