The 14th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science was held in July, 19th – 26th, 2011 in Nancy, the historic capital of Lorraine and birthplace of Henri Poincaré. We were very honored that the President of the French Republic, Monsieur Nicolas Sarkozy, generously agreed his patronage. The LMPS congresses represent the current state of the art and offer new perspectives in its fields. There were 900 registered participants from 56 different countries. They filled ..

Bour, Pierre Edouard

Heinzmann, Gerhard

Hodges, Wilfrid

Schroeder-Heister, Peter

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19-1 | 2015
Logic and Philosophy of Science in Nancy (II)
Preface
Pierre Edouard Bour, Gerhard Heinzmann, Wilfrid Hodges and Peter
Schroeder-Heister
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Preface
Pierre Edouard Bour
Université de Lorraine/CNRS, Nancy (France)
Gerhard Heinzmann
Université de Lorraine/CNRS, Nancy (France)
Wilfrid Hodges
British Academy (United Kingdom)
Peter Schroeder-Heister
Universität Tübingen (Germany)
The 14th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of
Science was held in July, 19th  26th, 2011 in Nancy, the historic capital
of Lorraine and birthplace of Henri Poincaré. We were very honored that the
President of the French Republic, Monsieur Nicolas Sarkozy, generously agreed
his patronage.
The LMPS congresses represent the current state of the art and oer new
perspectives in its elds. There were 900 registered participants from 56 dif-
ferent countries. They lled 115 sessions consisting of 391 individual talks
(among them 6 plenary lectures and 49 invited lectures), 22 symposia (among
them 4 special invited symposia), and 13 aliated meetings and associated
events such as 6 public talksin all nearly 600 papers. These gures reect
the fact that LMPS is not only a place for scientic communication at the
highest level, but also a forum for individual and collective research projects
to reach a wide international audience.
Concerning the program, there were two innovations:
Philosophia Scientiæ, 19(1), 2015, 57.
6 P.E. Bour, G. Heinzmann, W. Hodges, P. Schroeder-Heister
(a) For the rst time in the LMPS history, the Nancy congress had a special
topic: Logic and Science Facing the New Technologies. It illuminated
issues of major signicance today: their integration in society. These
questions were of great importance not only to LMPS participants, but
to our professional and sponsoring partners likewise. Correspondingly,
a section of the congress was entirely devoted to Methodological and
Philosophical Issues in Technology. With 16 individual lectures (three
invited) and two symposia this special topic made a grand entrance.
(b) We put much emphasis on symposia in the non-invited part of the
program. In addition to four symposia with invited speakers which we
organized ourselves, and 13 aliated symposia related to various topics
of the congress, for which their respective organizers were responsible,
we issued a call for contributed symposia in addition to the call for
contributed papers, giving researchers the chance to apply as a group
of up to 6 people for a short symposium on a selected topic. This call
resulted in 18 contributed symposia, some of which were of exceptionally
high quality.
This volume presents a selection of contributed papers. All sections of
the congress ranging under the headings General Philosophy of Science
are represented in this volume, as well as four sections of Methodological
and Philosophical Issues of Particular Sciences (Biology, Physics, Chemistry
and Economics). A rst volume of contributed papers, covering topics in
Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics and Cognitive Science, and Philosophy of
Technology, appeared in the last issue of Philosophia Scientiæ (18-3), 2014.
A selection of invited talks and plenary lectures are published under the title
Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Proceedings of the Fourteenth
International Congress (Nancy) by College Publications, London, 2014.
We are indebted to many persons and institutions for their integrated
eorts to realize this meeting. First and foremost we would like to thank the
members of our respective committees, the Local Organizing Committee, and
the General Program Committee including its Senior Advisors and Advisors.
They all have worked very hard, setting up an outstanding and attractive
program and staging it in a comfortable surrounding that would make the
congress a scientically and socially enjoyable event. It has been a great
pleasure to work with our colleagues and sta in these committees.
We also thank the Executive Committee of the DLMPS for its constant
support and encouragement. Claude Debru (Académie des Sciences, Paris)
helped us, amongst many other things, with his knowledge of French insti-
tutions, for which we are very grateful. Special thanks are also due to
the University Nancy 2 and its Presidents, François Le Poultier and Martial
Delignon, as well as to the Deans of Nancy's Faculty of Law, Olivier Cachard
and Éric Germain, who willingly let us occupy their splendid lecture halls and
facilities. Without the generous nancial support of the University of Lorraine,
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of local, national and international organizations, this meeting would not have
been possible. To all these partners we express our warm gratitude.
We are also very grateful to many colleagues who helped us in selecting
the papers for both CLMPS volumes published as tome 18-31 and 19-1 of
Philosophia Scientiæ, and contributed to their improvement through their
remarks and suggestions
Last but not least we would like to thank Sandrine Avril, who worked on
the LATEX layout of this volume, and took care with her usual competence of
a large part of the editorial process.
1. A problem occurred in the table of contents of volume 18(3): Prof. Hartley
Slater's contribution, Quine's Other Way Out, does not appear in the paper version.
We are very sorry for this omission and wish to apologize to Prof. Slater. This mistake
has been corrected in the online version of the journal.


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