William Demopoulos (1943–2017), editor of Frege’s Philosophy of Mathematics and author of Logicism and Its Philosophical Legacy, spent nearly four decades as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. Michael Friedman is Patrick Suppes Professor of Philosophy of Science at Stanford University.
Demopoulos has crafted a thoughtful and interesting interpretation
of quantum mechanics that completes his earlier work of the
mid-’70s…A wonderful tribute to a very significant philosopher.
*Metascience*
Demopoulos wrote ‘for the eye of God and the good of my soul,’ as
he used to say. On Theories is a stunning achievement, a profound
argument for a novel thesis about the nature of truth in scientific
theories, ranging from case studies about our understanding of
molecular reality to Bohr’s dispute with Einstein about quantum
reality.
*Jeffrey Bub, University of Maryland*
On Theories, a painstaking analysis of the seemingly
straightforward concept of theory, takes us on an exciting journey
through twentieth-century science and philosophy of science. It
critiques naïve dogmas such as the theory/observation dichotomy,
replacing them with a nuanced account centered on the notion of
‘theory-mediated measurement.’ On the basis of this account,
Demopoulos offers a novel interpretation of major breakthroughs in
classical as well as quantum mechanics. Meticulous in its
historical analysis and compelling in its philosophical argument,
On Theories is a must for anyone interested in science and its
method.
*Yemima Ben-Menahem, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem*
William Demopoulos was one of the leading philosophers of science
of his generation. An accomplished logician whose mastery of the
logicist tradition was unequaled, he was just as productive in
contemporary philosophy of physics, especially philosophy of
quantum physics. On Theories brings to a stunning close a line of
research he actively pursued for the last two decades: the
epistemology and ontology of physical theories. This is not only an
important book but a rare landmark in the development of the
discipline.
*Thomas Uebel, University of Manchester*
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