内容简介：
In this volume of philosophical and scientific essays, 24 authors from a dozen countries, East and West, explore issues in the theoretical practices of the sciences, with particular attention to theoretical physics. Likewise they set forth differing images of scientific interactions with philosophy. The topics include realism and anti-realism, hermeneutics and ontology of science, cognitive dynamics, indeterminacy, symmetries and explanations, a systems approach to classification of scientific knowledge and research, constructivism and relativism, explaining scientific revolutions, Nietzsche on science in the light of art, Aristotle today, methodological observations on communicating with extra-terrestrial intelligence, and the human right to know. The volume is dedicated to the Bulgarian philosopher of science, Azarya Polikarov; it includes an essay on his philosophical stand, and a full Polikarov bibliography.