New Journal: Foundations of Science [fwd]

Francis Heylighen (fheyligh@VNET3.VUB.AC.BE)
Mon, 15 May 1995 19:03:16 +0100


The following seems like a quite interesting new journal and association,
related to PCP. Note that some of the people who are organizing the
"Einstein meets Magritte" conference are also involved here.

Francis

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From: "Paul W. Humphreys" <pwh2a@fermi.clas.virginia.edu>
Subject: (1) Announcement: New Journal: Foundations of Science

NOTICE OF NEW JOURNAL.

Foundations of Science is a new journal focussing on foundational
issues in science, language, and cognition. Information about the
first two issues, together with subscription information, is given
below.

FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE, volume 1, number 1, March 1995

Executive Editors:

Paul Humphreys,
Philosophy Department, 521 Cabell Hall,
University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA 22903, USA.
Phone: (804) 924 - 6921. E-mail: pwh2a@virginia.edu

Ryszard Wojcicki
(Editor-in-Chief), Institute of Philosophy and
Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Nowy Swiat 72,
00-330 Warszawa, Poland. Telefax: (48-2) 635-4038. E-mail:
iandi@plearn.edu.pl

Guest Editor:

Bas C. van Fraassen, Department of Philosophy, Princeton
University, 1879 Hall, Princeton NJ 08540, USA.

Advisory Editors for Vol. 1(1995/96):

Jeffrey Bub (USA), Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara (Italy), Newton C.
A. da Costa (Brazil), Chico Doria (Brazil), V. K. Finn
(Russia), Allan Franklin (USA), C. U. Moulines (Germany), Fritz
Rohrlich (USA)

Assistant Editor: Agnes Niepieklo, UPT 00-953 Warszawa 37, P.O.
Box 8, POLAND. E-mail: iandi@plearn.edu.pl

PUBLICATION PROGRAM, 1995/96:
Volume 1 (4 issues published in March and September of 1995 and
1996.)

CONTENTS

FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE - DISCUSSION:
.............................5-18

Bas van Fraassen........A Philosophical Approach to Foundations of
Science
Patrick Suppes...........A Pluralistic View of Foundations of
Science
Arne Collen.............The Foundations of Science

THE FOUNDATIONS OF STATISTICS:

David Freedman..........Some Issues in the Foundations of
Statistics...19-39
Comments by James Berger, E. L. Lehmann, Paul Holland,
Clifford Clogg, Neil
Henry............................................41-67
David Freedman..........Rejoinder
....................................69-83
Diedrik Aerts and Sven Aerts......Applications of Quantum
Statistics in Psychological Studies of Decision
Processes.............85-97
Maria Carla Galavotti...Operationism, Probability and Quantum
Mechanics
............................................................99-118
Paul Humphreys..........Computational
Empiricism.....................119-130

VARIA:

Joseph Agassi...........Blame Not the Laws of
Nature.................131-154

Volume 1, number 2 (September 1995)

AUTOMATED DISCOVERY

Herbert Simon............Machine Discovery
Wei-Min Shen.............The Process of Discovery
Jan Zytkow...............A Survey of Automated Discovery
Comments on Simon's paper by

SUBSCRIPTION ORDER INFORMATION

All the subscription matters are handled by Foundations of Science
D.O.(Distribution Office) P.O. Box 32106, Raleigh NC 27622-2106, USA.

Subscriptions are entered on a calendar-year basis only. All
subscriptions must be paid in advance in U.S currency by check, or
money order. Refunds and cancellations are not accepted. Prices for
subscription include postage (surface mail) and handling charges.

Subscription Rates for 1995 (two issues of volume 1 (1995/96) are 22 US
dollars for members of the Association for Foundations of Science,
Language and Cognition, 35 US dollars for all other individuals and 60
US dollars for institutions. Only personal checks or money orders will
be accepted for individual orders. Institutions making payment for
individual subscriptions will be invoiced for the balance of the
institutional subscription rate.

Membership in AFOS is open to scientists and philosophers with serious
foundational interests. Besides a reduced subscription rate to
Foundations of Science, membership benefits include periodic regional
meetings. There is at present no membership fee. Those wishing to join
should send a message with their name, institutional affiliation and
address, and areas of interest to: iandi@plearn.bitnet