Download or read book Conceptual Tools For Understanding Nature - Proceedings Of The International Symposium written by Giacomo Costa and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1993-12-17 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This symposium is the first scientific event organized by the “Seminar for Epistemology” under the auspices of the University of Trieste. The aim of the symposium was to collect and open to discussion the contributions of a number of distinguished scientists from cognitive sciences and experimental nature sciences and to bring together specialists of various backgrounds.The very authoritative contributions presented at the Conference represent relevant, even if not exhaustive, specimens of the role of new conceptual tools in science.