Beschreibung:

Presented to Robert E. Butts on his 60th Birthday. Edited by James Robert Brown and Jürgen Mittelstrass. Dordrecht, Kluwer, 1989. Mit Porträt. XX, 523 S. Or.-Pp. mit Schutzumschlag. (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 116).

Bemerkung:

Enthält u.a. folgende Beiträge: William R. Shea. Cartesian Clarity and Cartesian Motion. - Margaret Morrison. Hypotheses and Certainty in Cartesian Sciences. - Howard Duncan. Descartes and the Method of Analysis and Synthesis. - William Harper. Conscilience and Natural Kind Reasoning. - Nicholas Rescher. The Philosophers of Gambling. - Gerd Buchdahl. Reductive Realism and the Problem of Affection in Kant. - Gereon Wolters. Mesmer in a Mountain Bar: Anthropological Difference, Butts and Mesmerism. - Jürgen Mittelstrass. World Pictures: The World of the History and Philosophy of Science.