French, Steven (2017) Models and Meaning Change: An Introduction to the Work of Mary Hesse. [Preprint]

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Abstract

Mary Hesse was one of the most significant figures in 20th Century history and philosophy of science, not only because of her academic research, but also for the role she played in further developing and enhancing the field at the institutional level (for a useful biography see ‘Website in Honor of Mary Hesse’: http://www.collodel.org/hesse/#). She was instrumental in the formation of the Division of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds, where she was a lecturer in mathematics, before she moved to University College, London and from there to the Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge where she was eventually appointed to a Professorship. She was not only Vice-President of the British Society for the History of Science and President of the Philosophy of Science Association, as well as being elected to the British Academy, but was also Editor of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science during a time of considerable change for the field as a whole.
This is the introduction to a selection of her papers, together with some notable responses, from the pages of the British Journal for Philosophy of Science.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID French, Steven
Keywords:	Hesse; models; meaning; inference; integrated hps
Subjects:	General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > Logical Positivism/Logical Empiricism General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism General Issues > Theory Change
Depositing User:	Professor Steven French
Date Deposited:	17 Jul 2017 14:08
Last Modified:	17 Jul 2017 14:08
Item ID:	13221
Subjects:	General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > Logical Positivism/Logical Empiricism General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism General Issues > Theory Change
Date:	17 July 2017
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/13221

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