Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science

This book collects most of the invited papers presented at the 12th
International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science
in Oviedo, August 2003. It contains state of the art accounts of ongoing
work by a selection of the most renowned researchers in the field. The
papers in the Logic section deal with topics in mathematical logic, as
well as philosophical logic, and the area of logic and computation. The
section on General Methodology contains articles on models, theories,
probability, induction, causation, and other topics. A number of papers
discuss Philosophical Issues of Particular Sciences, such as
mathematics, physics, linguistics, psychology, biology, and medicine.
There is also a section on Ethics of Science, and papers from a special
symposium on the Emergence of Scientific Medicine in the 19th-20th Century.