Oppenheim, Paul

Oppenheim, Paul and Putnam, Hilary. Unity of Science as a Working Hypothesis. Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science 2. Ed. by H. Feigl, M. Scriven and G. Maxwell. Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press, 1958.3-31. 

Oppenheim, Paul, and Hilary Putnam. 1958. The unity of science as a working hypothesis. In Concepts, theories, and the mind-body problem, ed. Grover Maxwell, Herbert FeigJ, and Michael Scriven, 3-36. Minneapolis Minnesota University Press. 

Schweber and others have argued that quantum chemistry was a quintessentially American discipline, with Mulliken, Slater, Van Vleck, Urey, Pauling, Edward Condon, Oppenheimer, Ralph Kronig, I. I. Rabi, Clarence Zener, David Dennison, Philip M. Morse, Eyring, John G. Kirkwood, George E. 

On the morning of Tuesday, August 7, 1945, Linus Pauling stopped at a Pasadena drugstore to buy a newspaper. He would remember the next few moments for the rest of his life. The newspaper headline read, Tokyo Admits Atomic Havoc. A new type of American bomb had just been dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. An enormous fireball had killed or injured tens of thousands of Japanese. Much of the city, the report said, was destroyed in an instant. J. Robert Oppenheimer s experiment, the Los Alamos project he had tried to talk Pauling into joining, had been a success. Science had created the atomic bomb. 

Krakauer, T., Vilcek, J., and Oppenheim, J. J. (1999). In Fundamental Immunology (ed W. E. Paul), Proinflam-matory cytokines. TNF and IL-1 families, chemokines, TGF-j3, and others, pp. 187-200. Lippincott-Raven, Philadelphia. 

Oppenheimer a bit of a gamble. On the other hand, if he does make good at all, I believe that he will be a very unusual success. After another healing summer in New Mexico with Paul Morgan and old friends from the summer of 1921, Oppenheimer went off to Cambridge to attack the center where he could. 

Kemeny, John G., and Paul Oppenheim. 1956. On reduction. Philosophical Studies 7 6-19. 

Jenkins, Carrie S. 2011. Is metaphysical dependence irreflexive TheMonist 94 267-276. Kemeny, John G., and Paul Oppenheim. 1956. On reduction. Philosophical Studies 1 6-19. Kitcher, Philip. 1981. Explanatory unification. Philosophy of Science 48 507-531. 

A more explicitly mereological account of reduction is offered by Paul Oppen-heim and Hilary Putnam [Oppenheim and Putnam, 1958], who argue that the explanation of the properties of complex systems in terms of the properties of and relations between their parts (microreduction) is a characteristic and fruitful scientific project. Microreduction is mereological because theory T microreduces a theory T2 when the phenomena explained by T2 are explained by Ti, and Ti... 

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