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In three volumes, a distinguished group of scholars from a variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences, the humanities and the arts contribute essays in honor of <em>Robert S. Cohen, on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The range of the essays, as well as their originality, and their critical and historical depth, pay tribute to the extraordinary scope of Professor Cohen's intellectual interests, as a scientist-philosopher and a humanist, and also to his engagement in the world of social and political practice. <em>Science, Mind and Art<em>, Volume III of Essays in honor of Robert S.<em>Cohen focuses on issues in contemporary epistemology, aesthetics, and philosophy of mind as well as on the relations of science and human values in ethical and religious thought. It also has important new work in contemporary metaphysics, as well as in the history of philosophy, and on questions of multiculturalism in science education. Contributors include Paul Feyerabend, Adolf Grünbaum, Joseph Margolis, Joëlle Proust, Erazim Kohak, Elie Wiesel, Miriam Bienenstock, and John Silber, among others.
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SCIENCE, MIND AND ART
BOSTON STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Editor ROBERT S. COHEN, Boston University
Editorial Advisory Board TIIOMAS F. GLICK, Boston University ADOLF GRUNBAUM, University of Pittsburgh SAHOTRA SARKAR, McGill University SYLVAN S. SCHWEBER, Brandeis University JOHN J. STACHEL, Boston University MARX W. W ARTOFSKY, Baruch College of
the City University of New York
VOLUME 165
BOSTON STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Editorial Committee for the Robert S. Cohen Festschrifts: KOSTAS GAVROGLU, National Technical University, Athens, Greece ADOLF GRUNBAUM, University of Pittsburgh JURGEN RENN, Max-Planck-Institut for Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin SAHOTRA SARKAR, McGill University SYLVAN S. SCHWEBER, Brandeis University JOHN J. STACHEL, Boston University MARX W. WARTOFSKY, Baruch College, The City University of New York
Volume I
Physics, Philosophy, and the Scientific Community Essays in the philosophy and history of the natural sciences and mathematics Volume II Science, Politics and Social Practice Essays on Marxism and science, philosophy of culture and the social sciences Volume III Science, Mind and Art Essays on science and the humanistic understanding in art, epistemology, religion and ethics
SCIENCE, MIND AND ART Essays on science and the humanistic understanding in art, epistemology, religion and ethics In honor of Robert S. Cohen
Edited by KOSTAS GAVROGLU National Technical University, Athens JOHN STACHEL Boston University MARX W. WARTOFSKY Baruch College, The City University of New York
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS DORDRECHf / BOSTON / LONDON
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Science, mind, and art: essays on sCience and the humanistic understanding in art, epistemology, religion, and ethics in honor of Robert S. Cohen I edited by Kostas Gavroglu, John Stachel, Marx W. Wartofsk y. cm. -- (Boston studies in the philosophy of sCience; v. p. 165) Includes index. ISBN 0-7923-2990-2 (hbk. : alk. paper) 1. Philosophy of .ind. 2. Science--Phllosophy. 3. Philosophy, Modern--20th century. I. Cohen, R. S. (Robert Sonne) II. Gavroglou, Kostas. III. Stachel, John J., 1928IV. Wartofsky, Marx W. V. Series. C174.B67 vol. 165 [B0418.31 001' .01 s--dc20 [501] 94-48184 ISBN 0-7923-2990-2 ISBN Set 0-7923-2991-0
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