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Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Transformation in the Writing is the most ambitious to date, because, as Wolff points out in the beginning, it contains writings that "fall.

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Kurt Wolff has written principally in two veins (in English) for the last fifty years, 1) on sociology, epistemology (sociology of knowledge) and the philosophy of sociology; and 2) on the relevance of his formulation of "surrender and catch" to human experience, particularly in its cogni­ tive forms. Transformation in the Writing is the most ambitious to date, because, as Wolff points out in the beginning, it contains writings that "fall quite obviously into three classes: autobiographical; sociology of knowledge, sociology, poetry, phenomenology, hermeneutics, critical theory; and our time and its sociological analysis.

He published Trying Sociology in 1974, which contains his writings on sociology, and Surrender and Catch.

Kurt Wolff has written principally in two veins (in English) for the last fifty years, 1) on sociology, epistemology (sociology of knowledge) and the philosophy of sociology; and 2) on the relevance of his formulation of "surrender and catch" to human experience, particularly in its cogni- tive forms.

This book examines the transmission processes of the Aristotelian .

This book examines the transmission processes of the Aristotelian Mechanics. It does so to enable readers to appreciate the value of the treatise based on solid knowledge of the principles of the text. In addition, the lexicographer must be able to determine the Church Slavonic equivalent of a given Greek form and to assess its appropriateness.

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Su"ender and catch: give so you can receive, where the giving is your whole self, in a total experience

Su"ender and catch: give so you can receive, where the giving is your whole self, in a total experience. This is scarcely new on the American scene, and it is ancient knowledge, East and West. The fears of total surrender, the fears of self-revelation and of total abandon, although genuine, are likewise not new. Yet Kurt H. Wolff does attempt something new here, an epistemologi cal essay with the help of this old idea: his subtitle is 'experience and inquiry today'.

Boston University Center for Philosophy and History of Science is an interdepartmental, interuniversity forum on the nature of science, and each year organizes the Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science. The Center for Philosophy and History of Science was founded in 1960 as an interdisciplinary, interuniversity collaboration, based at Boston University, with a small seed grant from the National Science Foundation

One of the aims of Boston Studies, therefore, is to develop collaboration among scientists, historians and philosophers. This book examines the many faces of philosophy of time, including the metaphysical aspects, natural science issues, and the consciousness of time.

a case of surrender-and-catch. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Boston studies in the philosophy of science ;, v. 166. Published 1995 by Kluwer Academic Publishers in Dordrecht, Boston. Knowledge, Sociology of, Sociology of Knowledge.

He thus functioned as an illuminating probe of European science in the . Gerald Holton Harvard University INTRODUCTION As Goethe knew, there is a cosmopolitan bias in science which extends to the writing of its history.

Gerald Holton Harvard University INTRODUCTION As Goethe knew, there is a cosmopolitan bias in science which extends to the writing of its history. The great metropolitan centers of learning dominate the Story, a condition scarcely altered by the turn to local micro-histories. Around 1800, and still to a surprising degree around 2000, geography can be a great handicap in the scientific republic of letters.