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    Early philosophical interpretations of general relativity.Thomas A. Ryckman -2008 -Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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    Surplus structure from the standpoint of transcendental idealism: The "world geometries" of Weyl and Eddington.Thomas A. Ryckman -2003 -Perspectives on Science 11 (1):76-106.
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    (1 other version)Designation and Convention: A Chapter of Early Logical Empiricism.Thomas A. Ryckman -1990 -PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1990:149 - 157.
    An examination of Carnap's Aufbau in the context of Schlick's Allgemeine Erkenntnislehre of ten years earlier, suggests that Carnap's focus there on the sign-relation (Zeichenbeziehung) is an effort to retrieve a verificationist account of the meaning of individual scientific statements from the abyss of meaning-holism entailed by Schlick's proposal that scientific concepts be implicitly defined. The Aufbau's antipodal aspects, its reductive phenomenalism and quasi-Kantian concern with the constitution of objectivity, are seen as complementary moments of the marriage of empiricism and (...) a new emphasis on scientific concepts as "free creations of the human mind". (shrink)
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    Chaos, Clio, and Scientistic Illusions of Understanding.Paul A. Roth &Thomas A. Ryckman -1995 -History and Theory 34 (1):30-44.
    A number of authors have recently argued that the mathematical insights of "chaos theory" offer a promising formal model or significant analogy for understanding at least some historical events. We examine a representative claim of each kind regarding the application of chaos theory to problems of historical explanation. We identify two lines of argument. One we term the Causal Thesis, which states that chaos theory may be used to plausibly model, and so explain, historical events. The other we term the (...) Convergence Thesis, which holds that, once the analogy between history and chaos theory is properly appreciated, any temptation to divide history from the rest of science should be greatly lessened. We argue that the proffered analogy between chaos theory and history falls apart upon closer analysis. The promised benefits of chaos theory vis-à-vis history are either fantastic or, at best, an extremely loose heuristic which, while retaining nothing of the considerable intrinsic interest of nonlinear dynamics, easily seduces the unwary into taking at face value terms and concepts that have a specifically precise meaning only within the confines of mathematical theory. (shrink)
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    Warren Schmaus is Professor of Philosophy at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he has taught since completing graduate studies in the history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Durkheim's Philosophy of Science and the Sociology of Knowledge (Chicago, 1994), in additional to many articles concerning the philosophy.Gregory Moynahan,Thomas A. Ryckman &David Hyder -2003 -Perspectives on Science 11 (1).
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    Shifting the (non-relativized) a priori: Hans Reichenbach on causality and probability (1915–1932).Thomas A. Ryckman &D. Dieks -2011 - In Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao Gonzalo, Thomas Uebel, Stephan Hartmann & Marcel Weber,Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation. Springer. pp. 2--465.
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