Strange beautiful grass of green: LMU Winter 2018 “The Philosophy of Howard Stein”

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Z. Biener and E. Schliesser (eds.), Newton and Empiricism, Oxford University Press, 2014
S. Blackburn, “The Steps from Doing to Saying”, Presidential Address, delivered to the Aristotelian Society (London), 12 Oct 2009
R. Carnap, “Testability and Meaning” (Philosophy of Science 1936)
R. Carnap, “Empiricism, Semantics and Ontology” (Supplement A in his Meaning and Necessity, second ed.)
R. Carnap, “The Methodological Character of Theoretical Concepts” (in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 1, 1956)
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science: Philosophical Foundations of Physics, chs. 23–26
I. Cohen and G. Smith (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Newton, Cambridge University Press, 2004
E. Curiel, M. Friedman, D. Malament and J. WeatherallNominating Letter for Howard Stein for the Hempel Prize
R. DiSalle, Understanding Space-Time: The Philosophical Development of Physics from Newton to Einstein Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2006
World Enough and Space-Time: Absolute versus Relational Theories of Space and Time
J. Earman, C. Glymour, and J. Stachel (eds.), Foundations of Space-Time Theories (Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. viii), Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1977
A. Eddington, Space, Time and Gravitation: An Outline of the General Theory of Relativity, Cambridge University Press, 1920
M. Friedman, Foundations of Space-Time Theories: Relativistic Physics and Philosophy of Science, Princeton University Press, 1983
M. Friedman, The Dynamics of Reason, CSLI Publications, 2001
R. Geroch, General Relativity from A to B, University of Chicago Press, 1978
W. Harper, “Kant, Riemann and Reichenbach on Space and Geometry” (in Proceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress, ed. H. Robinson, 1995)
W. Harper, Isaac Newton’s Scientific Method: Turning Data into Evidence about Gravity and Cosmology, Oxford University Press, 2011
H. Helmholtz, “On the Origin and Significance of the Geometrical Axioms” (Translated by Howard Stein, from Populäre Wissenshaftliche Vorträge von H. Helmholtz, Braunschweig, 1876, Heft 3, pp. 23–51.)
C. Huygens, On the Motion of Bodies Resulting from Impact, trans. M. S. Mahoney (from original URL: http://www.princeton.edu/~hos/Mahoney/texts/huygens/impact/huyimpct.html
C. Huygens, Treatise on Light, trans. S. P. Thompson, originally published by University of Chicago Press, re-distributed by Project Guternberg Online
A. Janiak, Newton As Philosopher, Cambridge University Press, 2008
A. Janiak and E. Schliesser (eds.), Interpreting Newton: Critical Essays, Cambridge University Press, 2013
I. Lakatos, The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Philosophical Papers, Vol. 1, eds. J. Worrall and G. Currie, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978.
J. C. Maxwell, Matter and Motion, 1925 ed. No copyright.
J. C. Maxwell, The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, Volume I, from the Dover Publications: New York, 1965, 2 volumes bound as 1. A reprint of the original Cambridge University Press edition of 1890. No copyright.
J. C. Maxwell, The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, Volume II, from the Dover Publications: New York, 1965, 2 volumes bound as 1. A reprint of the original Cambridge University Press edition of 1890. No copyright.
The Newton Project, http://www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/, working towards online edition of all Newton's writings, published and unpublished
Cambridge Library's collection of images of Newton's original documents, http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton/1
I. Newton, “De Gravitatione et Æquipondio Fluidorum” (selected passages; translation and interpolated commentary by Howard Stein)
I. Newton, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Volume 1 (Books 1 and 2), the translation by A. Motte of the third edition (1726), originally produced in 1729, revised by F. Cajori in 1934.
I. Newton, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Volume 2 (Book 3, “The System of the World”), the translation by A. Motte of the third edition (1726), originally produced in 1729, revised by F. Cajori in 1934.
I. Newton, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, translated by I. Cohen and A. Whitman (Author’s Preface; Definitions and Scholium; Axioms, or the Laws of Motion and Scholium; Rules for the Study of Natural Philosophy; General Scholium)
I. Newton, Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light, 1952 Dover reprint of the 1931 volume of G.~Bell and Sons, Ltd., based on the fourth edition of William Innys, London, 1730; Foreward by Einstein, Introduction by E. Whittaker, Preface by I. B. Cohen
I. Newton, Isaac Newton’s Papers & Letters on Natural Philosophy and Related Documents, edited and with a general introduction by I. B. Cohen, Harvard University Press, 1958.
H. Putnam, Mathematics, Matter and Method: Philosophical Papers, Volume 1, Cambridge University Press, 1975
H. Putnam, Mind, Language and Reality: Philosophical Papers, Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, 1975
W. Quine, From a Logical Point of View: 9 Logic-Philosophical Essays, Harper and Row, 1963
W. Quine, The Ways of Paradox and Other Essays, Random House, 1966
H. Reichenbach, The Philosophy of Space & Time, New York: Dover Publications, 1958, trans. M. Reichenbach and J. Freund
B. Riemann, “On the Hypotheses, Which Lie at the Basis of Geometry” (A translated of “Über die Hypothesen, welche der Geometrie zu Grunde liegen” by Howard Stein. I devised a short glossary for the more obscure, archaic and technical terms Riemann uses in this paper, to help the reader.)
B. Russell, The Analysis of Matter
L. Sklar, Space, Time and Spacetime
H. Stein, Curriculum Vitae (including a complete bibliography of Stein’s work, published and unpublished)
H. Stein, “On Metaphysics and Method in Newton” (unpublished manuscript)
H. Stein, “Nevvtonus ab quibusdam nævibus vindicatus” (unpublished manuscript)
H. Stein, “Further Considerations on Newton's Method” (unpublished manuscript)
H. Stein, “Newton: Philosophy of Inquiry and Metaphysics of Nature” (unpublished manuscript)
H. Stein, “How Does Physics Bear upon Metaphysics; and Why Did Plato Hold That Philosophy Cannot Be Written Down?” (unpublished manuscript)
H. Stein, “Physics and Philosophy Meet: the Strange Case of Poincaré” (unpublished manuscript)
H. Stein, “Newtonian Space-Time”, Texas Quarterly 10(1967):174–200.
H. Stein, “On the Notion of Field in Newton, Maxwell, and Beyond” in R. Stuewer (ed.), Historical and Philosophical Perspective of Science (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1970), pp. 264–287. Includes comments by G. Buchdahl and M. Hesse, and replies by Stein.
H. Stein, “On the Conceptual Structure of Quantum Mechanics”, in Paradigms and Paradoxes: The Philosophical Challenge of the Quantum Domain, ed. Robert Colodny (University of Pittsburgh Series in the Philosophy of Science, vol. V; Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1972), pp. 367–438.
H. Stein, “Some Philosophical Prehistory of General Relativity”, in J. Earman, C. Glymour, and J. Stachel (eds.), Foundations of Space-Time Theories (Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. viii), Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1977, 3–49.
H. Stein, “ ‘Subtler Forms of Matter’ in the Period Following Maxwell”, in G. Cantor and M. Hodge (eds.), Conceptions of Ether: Studies in the History of Ether Theories, 1740–1900, Cambridge University Press, 1981
H. Stein, “On the Present State of the Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics”, PSA 1982, vol. 2, pp. 563–581
H. Stein, “After the Baltimore Lectures: Some Philosophical Remarks on the Subsequent Development of Physics”, in Kelvin’s Baltimore Lectures and Modern Theoretical Physics, ed. Robert Kargon and Peter Achinstein (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987), pp. 375–398
H. Stein, “Yes, but …: Some Skeptical Reflections on Realism and Anti-realism”, Dialectica, 1989, 43:47–65
H. Stein, “On Locke, ‘the Great Huygenius, and the Incomparable Mr. Newton’”, Philosophical Perspectives on Newtonian Science, eds. P. Bricker and R. Hughes, MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 1990.
H. Stein, “‘From the Phenomena of Motions to the Forces of Nature’: Hypothesis or Deduction?”, Proceedings of the Biennial PSA Conference, 1990, vol. 2, 209–222
H. Stein, “Introductory Note to the Paper of Kurt Gödel, ‘A Remark about the Relationship between Relativity Theory and Idealistic Philosophy’”, in Kurt Gödel, Collected Works, Vol. ii, Publications 1938–1974, eds. S. Feferman, et al.
H. Stein, “Introductory Note to the Paper of Kurt Gödel, ‘Some Observations about the Relationship between Theory of Relativity and Kantian Philosophy’”, in Kurt Gödel, Collected Works, Vol. iii, Unpublished Essays and Lectures, eds. S. Feferman, et al.
H. Stein, “Eudoxos and Dedekind: on the Ancient Greek Theory of Ratios and Its Relation to Modern Mathematics”, Synthese, 1990, 84:163–211.
H. Stein, “On Relativity Theory and Openness of the Future”, Philosophy of Science, 1991, 58:147–167.
H. Stein, “Was Carnap Entirely Wrong, After All?”, Synthese, 1992, 93:275–295.
H. Stein, “On Philosophy and Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century”, Midwest Studies in Philosophy 18 (1993), 177–201.
H. Stein, “Some Reflections on the Structure of Our Knowledge in Physics”, in eds. Prawitz, D. and B. Skyrms and D. Westerståhl, Logic, Metholodogy and Philosophy of Science, New York: Elsevier Science B.V., 1994, 633–655. Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science
H. Stein, “The Enterprise of Understanding and the Enterprise of Knowledge”, Synthese, 2004, 140:135–176
H. Stein, “ ‘Definability,’ ‘Conventionality,’ and Simultaneity in Einstein-Minkowski Space-Time”, in W. Myrvold and J. Christian (eds.), Quantum Reality, Relativistic Causality, and Closing the Circle: Essays in Honor of Abner Shimony, Springer, 2009
J. L. Synge, Relativity: The Special Theory
J. L. Synge, Relativity: The General Theory
R. Torretti, Relativity and Geometry (Pergamon Press, 1983)
R. Torretti, Philosophy of Geometry from Riemann to Poincaré (D. Reidel, 1984)
H. Weyl, Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science, revised and augmented English version based on the trans. by O. Helmer, Princeton University Press, 1949