EDITORIAL BOARD

Executive Editors

Philosophy Department, 521 Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA 22903, USA.
Phone: (804) 924 - 6921.
E-mail: pwh2a@virginia.edu

Ryszard Wójcicki

(Editor-in-Chief), Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Nowy Swiat 72, 00-330 Warszawa, Poland.
Telefax: (48-2) 635-4038.
E-mail: iandi@plearn.edu.pl

Advisory Editors

Diederik Aerts, Dept. of Theoretical Physics (TENA), Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, BELGIUM. E-mail: diraerts@vub.ac.be
Nancy Delaney Cartwright, Philosophy Dept., London School of Economics, Houghton St., London WC2A 2AE, ENGLAND. E-mail: cartwrig@vax.lse.uk
Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara, Dipartimento di Filosofia, Universita Degli Studi di Firenze, Via Bolognese 52, 50139 Firenze, ITALY. E-mail: dachiara@vm.idg.fi.cnr.it
Allan Franklin, Dept. of Physics,Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA. E-mail: Franklin\_a@cubldr.colorado.edu
Michael Heller, Vatican Observatory, V-00120 VATICAN CITY STATE.
Andrzej Lewenstam, Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry, Abo Akademi University, Biskopsgatan 8, SF -- 20500, Abo -- Turku, FINLAND. E-mail alewenst@aton.abo.fi
Fritz Rohrlich, Dept. of Physics, Syracuse Univ., Syracuse, NY 13244-1130, USA. E-mail: rohrlich@suhep.phy.syr.edu
Patrick Suppes, Lucie Stern Prof. of Philosophy Stanford University, 678 Mirada Ave., Stanford, CA 943005, USA E-mail: suppes@csli.stanford.edu Phone; (o) (415) 725 6030 (h) (415) 321 6594; Fax: (415) 7230758
Bastian C. van Fraassen, Dept. of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1879 Hall, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA E-mail: fraassen@pucc.princeton.edu Phone: (609) 924-4329
Jan Zytkow, Computer Science Department, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, 67260-0083, USA.

Assistant Editors:

Sergiusz Pukas, Anna Szczesna, Jacek Urbaniec, 00-953 Warszawa 37, P.O. Box 8, Poland. E-mail: iandi@plearn.edu.pl

EDITORIAL POLICY

Foundations of Science serves as a forum for the development and exchange of ideas by working scientists and theorists of science on issues of methodological, foundational, scientific, and philosophical importance. The primary aim of the journal is to identify and highlight issues and problems within these areas and more importantly, to suggest constructive solutions to the problems. It aims to do this in a way that does full justice to the scientific subtleties of the topics concerned yet which is accessible to readers with backgrounds in a wide variety of sciences.

As the official publication of the Association for the Foundations of Science, Language and Cognition, the journal has a global readership. The editors of the journal are open to the view that various sciences have approaches and methods which are peculiar to their own subject matter. Nevertheless, they hold that important truths can be discovered about and by the sciences and that these truths transcend cultural, historical, and political contexts. The editors thus believe that the central foundational questions of contemporary science can be posed and answered in an objective manner that has permanent intellectual value across cultures and epochs and they encourage the publication of papers that make such permanent contributions.

Paul Humphreys and Ryszard Wójcicki

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS

Foundations of Science issues are typically published in the form of topic issues and consist of the papers solicited by the guest editor(s). Still, most of the topic issues contain a Varia section in which papers which are not related to the main topic of the issue can be published. Authors wishing to submit a paper for publication are advised to contact, by e-mail, Sergiusz Pukas (iandi@plearn.edu.pl) in order to learn the current publications schedule. Papers being submitted for publication in the Varia section should be sent in duplicate to : Ryszard Wójcicki, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 00-330, Nowy ´Swiat, Warszawa, Poland.

Each contribution should include a short abstract, a list of key words and a note indicating the author's affiliation. References should be stated in a complete form at the end of the article in first of all alphabetical and then chronological order.

The authors whose paper have been accepted for publication will be requested to deliver an electronic version of their paper in any format which can be exported to ascii. The paper will eventually be set in LaTex.

Authors receive 25 offprints of each paper free of charge. Additional copies can be ordered when the proofs are returned to the copy editor.

Call for projects of topic issues

Scientists and theorist of science who are interested in guest editing a topic issue of FOS are kindly requested to send their project to Ryszard Wójcicki, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 00-330, Nowy ´Swiat, Warszawa, Poland.

The project should contain:

A few page presentation of the main ideas and problems which are planned to be discussed in the proposed issue. This part of the project should be written in a form of a note which might be published in the journal still before the project is accepted.
The expected title and the name of the author(s) of the main paper of the issue as well as the names of 3 - 5 persons who will comment on that paper. The main paper should in a concise way survey both the most recent results and most urgent problems in the area to be covered by the planned issue.
The names of 4 - 5 persons (both working scientists and theorist of science) who are willing to submit their contributions to the planned issue and a few line description of the planned papers.
Short biographical notes of both the author of the project and the chief contributors. Please include in each note (1) titles of the main publications (especially those relevant to the topic of the planned issue, (2) recent academic affiliation(s), (3) the address for correspondence, e-mail and www-addresses in particular.

The authors of the project are kindly requested to keep in mind that

The audience FOS consists of both theorist of science and working scientists interested in the foundational problems and thus it consist of people whose background, experience and interest might be strongly diversified. The papers published in the journal should not be addressed to a narrow group of specialist. They should undertake problems of fairly general interest and should be written in a language free of unnecessary technicalities.
A topic issue should allow the reader both to grasp the essentials of the problems and results presented in the issue and to localize them in the right way in the current research work in the area.
Besides research papers, the journal publishes (or plans to publish) survey papers, interviews with outstanding personalities, outcomes of electronic debates on selected methodological issue, discussions on book which have recently appeared.