Science, Politics and Social Practice: Essays on Marxism and Science, Philosophy of Culture and the Social Sciences In Honor of Robert S. CohenRobert Sonné Cohen, Kostas Gavroglu, John Stachel, Marx W. Wartofsky The essays in this Festschrift are celebrations of the human mind in its manifold expressions - philosophical, scientific, historical, aesthetic, political - and in its various modes - analytical, systematic, critical, imaginative, constructive. They are offered to Robert S. Cohen on the occasion of his 70th birthday, in acknowledgment of his own extra ordinary participation in the life of the mind, and of his unfailing encouragement and facilitation of the participation of others. It is fitting that these volumes should appear in the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, the series which he co-founded so many years ago, and of which he has been the principal editor for more than three decades. (These are perhaps the only volumes of that series which he has not edited or co-edited! ) The three volumes that constitute this Festschrift cover the range of Cohen's interests as a philosopher/scientistlhumanist, as they also represent the spectrum of his professional and personal friendships. (Regretfully, the editors could not include contributions from more of them here. ) The first volume centers around the philosophy and history of the natural sciences and mathematics; Volume Two collects essays related to Marxism and science, philosophy of culture and the social sciences; and the third volume focuses on science and the humanistic understanding in art, epistemology, religion and ethics. |
Contents
ON BOB COHEN | 1 |
LEARNING HUMAN NATURE UNDER COMMUNISM | 5 |
MARXIST PHILOSOPHY AND HUMANISM IN MAINLAND CHINA AN OUTLINE | 15 |
COHENS CARNAP OR SUBJECTIVITY IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER | 27 |
STALINISM AND SOVIET SCIENCE | 43 |
A HINDSIGHT LOOK AT SOVIET MARXISM | 53 |
MARX ON SCIENCE AND CAPITALISM | 69 |
KARL POPPER AND KARL MARX | 83 |
CYBERNETICS AND SOCIAL ENTITIES | 177 |
THE CASE OF YUCCA MOUNTAIN | 193 |
SOME REFLECTIONS ON INEQUALITY AND CLASS STRUCTURE | 211 |
FROM DUALISM OF HUMAN NATURE TO HUMAN BEING AS A MIXED PHENOMENON | 231 |
THE TRAGEDY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE | 243 |
PROLEGOMENON TO A SOCIOLOGY OF ARGUMENT | 263 |
ADAM SMITH ON THEORIZING ABOUT THE MORAL SENTIMENTS | 287 |
MAKING PEACE WITH NATURE | 313 |
REFLECTIONS | 95 |
SCIENCE SOCIETY AND THE EXPANDING BOUNDARIES OF MORAL DISCOURSE | 109 |
THE CONCEPT OF SCIENTIFIC LAW | 125 |
PHILOSOPHY IN THE AGE OF THE SCIENCES | 135 |
CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE POLITISATION OF NEEDS | 157 |
ON CULTURAL RELATIVISM AND RADICAL DOUBT | 351 |
ON THE AUTONOMY AND METHODS OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY | 365 |
INDEX OF NAMES | 383 |
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