Modern Science and Its Philosophy

324 pp. CONTENTS: Introduction: Historical Background; Experience and the Law of Causality; The Importance for Our Times of Ernst Mach's Philosophy of Science; Ernst Mach and the Unity of Science; Physical Theories of the Twentieth Century and School Philosophy; Is There a Trend Today Toward Idealism in Physics?; Mechanical "Explanation" or Mathematical Description?; Modern Physics and Common Sense; Philosophic Misinterpretations of the Quantum Theory; Determination and Indeterminism in Modern Physics; How Idealists and Materialists View Modern Physics; Logical Empiricism and the Philosophy of the Soviet Union; Why Do Scientists and Philosophers So Often Disagree About the Merits of a New Theory?; The Philosophic Meaning of the Copernican Revolution; The Place of the Philosophy of Science in the Curriculum of the Physics Student; Science Teaching and the Humanities; The Place of Logic and Metaphysics in the Advancement of Modern Science; Bibliographical Note; Index.