Philosophy and the Origin and Evolution of the Universe
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SYNTHESE LIBRAR Y STUDIES IN EPISTEMOLOGY , LOGIC , METHODOLOGY , AND PHILOSOPH Y OF SCIENCE
Managing Editor: JAAKK O HINTIKKA , Boston University
Editors: DONAL D DAVIDSON , University of California, Berkeley GABRIE L NUCHELMANS , University ofLeyden WESLE Y C. SALMON , University of Pittsburgh
VOLUM E 217
PHILOSOPHY AND THE ORIGIN AN D EVOLUTION OF THE UNIVERSE Edited by EVANDR O AGAZZ I University ofFribourg, Switzerland, University of Genova,Italy and Presidentof the International Academyof Philosophyof Science
and ALBERT O CORDERO Departmentof Philosophy,Queen'sCollege, City University of New York, USA.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
E. AGAZZI & A. CORDERO/ Introduction
VII
E. AGAZZI / The Universeas a ScientificandPhilosophicalProblem 1 R. TORRETTI / The GeometricStructureof the Universe
53
B. ZWIEBACH / SuperstringUnification and the Existence of Gravity
75
D. SHAPERE/ The Universeof ModernScienceandits PhilosophicalExploration
87
R. ENGEL / From Moleculesto Life
203
C. CHERNIAK / Meta-Neuroanatomy: The Myth of the Unbounded Main/Brain 219 M. ARTIGAS / Emergenceand Reductionin Morphogenetic Theories
253
J. MOSTERIN / What canwe know aboutthe Universe?
263
M. PAURI / The Universeas a Scientific Object
291
E. SCHEIBE/ GeneralLaws of NatureandThe Uniquenessof the Universe
341
B. KANITSCHEIDER / TheAnthropic Principleand its EpistemologicalStatusin ModernPhysicalCosmology
361
vi A CORDEROI EvolutionaryIdeasand Contemporary
Naturalism
F. MIRO QUESADA I Origin and Evolution of the Universe
and Mankind
Index of Names
399 441 457
INTRODUCTION
It has often beennoted that
