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• 1- Discourse on a new method, or a manifesto for a synthetic approach to history and philosophy of science / Mary Domski and Michael Dickson
• 2- Pt. 1. The Newtonian era
• 3- The axiomatic tradition in 17th century mechanics / Domenico Bertoloni Meli
• 4- The reduction to the pristine state in Robert Boyle's corpuscular philosophy / William R. Newman
• 5- Newton as historically-minded philosopher / Mary Domski
• 6- Newton's forces in Kant's critique / Andrew Janiak
• 7- Pt. 2. Kant
• 8- Kant and Lambert on geometrical postulates in the reform of metaphysics / Alison Laywine
• 9- Two studies in the reception of Kant's philosophy of arithmetic / Charles Parsons
• 10- Philosophy, geometry, and logic in Leibniz, Wolff, and the early Kant / Daniel Sutherland
• 11- Kant on attractive and repulsive force : the balancing argument / Daniel Warren
• 12- Mathematical method in Kant, Schelling, and Hegel / Frederick C. Beiser
• 13- Pt. 3. Logical positivism and neo-Kantianism
• 14- Validity in the cultural sciences? / John ichael Krois
• 15- Ernst Cassirer and Michael Friedman : Kantian or Hegelian dynamics of reason? / Alan Richardson
• 16- From Mach to Carnap: a tale of confusion / Paul Pojman
• 17- Quine's objection and Carnap's Aufbau / Thomas Ricketts
• 18- "Let me briefly indicate why I do not find this standpoint natural" : Einstein, general relativity, and the contingent a priori / Don Howard
• 19- Pt. 4. History and philosophy of physics
• 20- How Hume and Mach helped Einstein find special relativity / John Norton
• 21- The paracletes of quantum gravity / James Mattingly
• 22- Dirac and mathematical beauty / Michael Dickson
• 23- Theory, coordination, and empirical meaning in modern physics / Scott Tanona
• 24- The "relativized a priori" : an appreciation and a critique / Thomas Ryckman
• 25- Pt. 5. Post-Kuhnian philosophy of science
• 26- The role of the foundations of mathematics in the development of Carnap's theory of theories / William Demopoulos
• 27- Synthesis, the synthetic a priori, and the origins of modern space-time theory / Robert DiSalle
• 28- How should we describe scientific change? or : a neo-Popperian reads Friedman / Noretta Koertge
• 29- The construction of reason : Kant, Carnap, Kuhn, and beyond / Richard Creath
• 30- Back to "back to Kant" / Mark Wilson
• 31- Pt. 6. Michael Friedman responds
• 32- Synthetic history reconsidered / Michael Friedman.

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