B

Babbage, Charles, 218

Bachelard, Gaston, 224 , 271 -282 passim, 285 ;

anticipation of Popper, 354 ;

bibliomenon, 11 , 354

Bacon, Francis, 43 , 103 , 280 ;

Novum Organum (indulgence of the understanding), 102

Baudelaire, Charles:

and imagination, 278

Baudrillard, Jean:

Le système des objets , 206

Bayesian probabilities, 114 , 144

Becket, Thomas. See Eliot, T. S.

Beckett, Samuel:

Molloy , 320

Behaviour, 185 -186;

logic as, 142 ;

thinking as, 302

Behaviourism, 171 , 353

Being:

and existence, 290

Belief, 2 ;

belief in and belief that, 75 ;

justified true belief, 228

Bergson, Henri, 160 , 324 ;

creative intuition, 99

Berkeley, George, 69 , 139 , 341 -343, 347 ;

idealism, 334 -335;

and infinitesimals, 153 ;

mind of God, 266 ;

New Theory of Vision , 342 -343, 345 ;

Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous , 265 , 334 -335

Berlin, Isaiah, 142

Berlyne, Daniel:

on exploration, 109 , 110

Bernstein, Richard, 17

Bertalanffy, Ludwig von. See von Bertalanffy, Ludwig

Big Bang, 80

Biological sciences, xvi , 9 ;

biology, 15 , 173

Bloom, Allan, 354

Body, 193

Bohm, David:

and quantum theory, 23

Bohr, Niels:

model of atom, 149 , 277

Borges, Jorge Luis, 361

Boulding, Kenneth:

on general systems theory, 50

Bourdieu, Pierre:

on practice, 166

Bovary, Emma, 319 , 322

Brain, 120 , 170 , 313 , 344 ;

number of neurons, xiii -xiv, 263 , 294 , 343 -344, 346.

See also Nervous system

Braitenberg, Valentino:

Vehicles , 311

Braithwaite, Richard:

Scientific Explanation , 253

Brentano, Franz:

intentional idioms, 331 ;

intentionality, 286 , 301 ;

intentional objects, 322

Breton, André:

and Bachelard, 276 ;

Manifesto of Surrealism , 296 ;

Nadja , 298 ;

Point du jour , 297 ;

subject vs. object, 289 ;

Surrealism and Painting , 295 -296, 297

Bridgman, P. W.:

The Logic of Modern Physics , 17

Browne, Thomas, 68

Bugliarello, George, xvi

Bunge, Mario:

discovery of laws, 111

Butler, Judith, 378