Table of Contents

Who Needs Aristotle?.- Naive Realism and Naive Antirealism.- Against Postmodernism and the “New” Philosophy of Science: Nietzsche’s Image of Science in the Light of Art.- On the Validity of von Neumann’s Theorem.- Explaining Scientific Revolutions.- Micro- and Macro-Hermeneutics of Science.- The Redundancy of Spacetime: Special Relativity as a Grammar and the Strangeness of ‘c’.- Context, Hermeneutics, and Ontology in the Experimental Sciences.- Cognitive Dynamics and the Development of Science.- Methodical Constructivism.- Hermeneutic vs. Empiricist Philosophy of Science.- Must the Explanans be True?.- Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence: SETI and Scientific Methodology.- Since Indeterminacy: The New Picture of the Physical World at the End of Modernity.- The Dynamics of Science.- The Law of Logarithmic Returns and Its Implications.- The Human Right to Know and the Reality of Knowledge.- Kuhn’s Ontological Relativism.- The Problem of Reduction in the Theory of Special Relativity.- Symmetries and Explanations: The Lessons of Elementary Particle Physics.- Cognition as a System.- System Approach to the Problem of the Classification of Sciences and Scientific Researches.- Appendix / Azarya Polikarov: Selected Books and Articles.- Name Index.