This volume attempts to provide a new articulation of issues surrounding scientific realism, scientific rationality, the epistemology of non-classical physics, the type of revolutionary changes in the development of science, the naturalization of epistemology within frameworks of cognitive science and structural linguistics, models of the information technology revolution, and reconstructions of early modern logical systems.
The Danger of Catching Nature in Contradiction.- Scientific Rationality, Decision and Choice.- The Information Technology Revolution: A New Techno-Economic Paradigm.- Are Bifurcations of Human Knowledge Possible?.- The Proliferation and Synthesis of Physical Theories.- On Human Agency in Physics.- Leibniz's Logical Systems: A Reconstruction.- The Logic Between Two Centuries.- Idealized Cognitive Models and Other Mental Representations.- Philosophy of Science Meets Cognitive Science: The Categorization Debate.- Three Words: Hypertext and Argumentation Readings of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.- On Kant's Conception of Space and Time.- How to Be Simultaneously an Antiessentialist and a Defender of Science's Cognitive Specificity.- Notes on Contributors.