Physics, Philosophy, and the Scientific Community

A. Philosophical and Historical Issues in Contemporary Physics.- Experiment Vis-a-vis Theory in Superconductivity Research. The Case of Bernd Matthias.- Philosophy and the Birth of Quantum Theory.- Identity Questions from Quantum Theory.- Some Reminiscences of Robert Cohen’s Physics Department.- Einstein in the Land of Nobel: An Episode in the Interplay of Science, Politics, Epistemology and Popular Culture.- Did They Just Misunderstood Each Other? Logical Empiricists and Bohr’s Complementarity Argument.- Physics, Community and the Crisis in Physical Theory.- B. Critical Questions in the Philosophy and History of the Natural Sciences.- Contemporary Philosophy of Science as a Thinly Masked Antidemocratic Apologetics.- A Philosopher Looks at Science.- Animal Mechanism and the Cartesian Vision of Nature.- Michael Polanyi and the History of Science.- Cosmological Outlooks and Technological Transfer: A Comparative View from Eastern Periphery.- Some Questions Concerning Limitations of the Range of Validity of Kuhn’s Model of the History of Science.- Historical Epistemology and Interdisciplinarity.- American Creativity Research in a Bipolar World: A Look at One Chapter in World History and History of Science.- C. Logic, Language and Scientific Rationality.- Rational and Nonrational Elements in the History of Science.- Dirt and Crystal: Neurath on the Language of Science.- What is Elementary Logic? Independence-Friendly Logic as the True Core Area of Logic.- Physicalism in Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle.- D. History of Mathematics.- Conic Sections and Burning Mirrors: An Example of the Application of Ancient and Classical Mathematics.- Some Sociological Problems in the History of Mathematics.