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Colodny, Robert Garland was born on August 5, 1915 in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. Son of Isidore Omar and Pauline (Shenberg) Colodny.
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The Struggle for Madrid is a study of the battles that were waged between the armies of the Spanish Republic and the armies of General Francisco Franco for the city of Madrid. It was this struggle, beginning with the collapse of Republican arms at Toledo in September, 1936, and ending with the victory of the Madrid armies at Guadalajara in March, 1937, that determined the duration and characteristics of the rest of the conflict. It was the central episode of the Spanish War. Due to international intervention, the Spanish struggle lost its purely national character and became at once a civil war of a profoundly Spanish type, a war of independence waged by a section of the Spanish people against German, Italian, and Moroccan armies, and a clash of supra national ideologies that aroused the deepest passions of peoples far removed from the immediate Spanish interests at stake. Although the passions aroused by the war distort contemporary accounts of the fighting, the totalities of these obstacles present no insurmountable barrier to a preliminary investigation of the Madrid battles. Such a study is best undertaken while many of the principal actors in the Madrid tragedy still live. If truth has been affronted the witnesses may yet speak, and from the debate margin of error will be reduced. Robert Colodny's groundbreaking cross of military history and political ambitions helps reduce the gap between fiction and fact.
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The six essays in this volume discuss philosophical thought on scientific theory including: a call for a realist, rather than instrumentalist interpretation of science; a critique of one of the core ideas of positivism concerning the relation between observational and theoretical languages; using aerodynamics to discuss the representational aspect of scientific theories and their isomorphic qualities; the relationship between the reliability of common sense and the authenticity of the world view of science; removing long-held ambiguities on the theory of inductive logic; and the relationship between the actuality of conceptual revolutions in the history of science and traditional philosophical pictures of scientific theory-building.
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Colodny, Robert Garland was born on August 5, 1915 in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. Son of Isidore Omar and Pauline (Shenberg) Colodny.
Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1950.
Research associate, Institute for Philosophical Research, 1953-1955; assistant professor of history, San Francisco State College, 1956; associate professor, U. Kansas, 1957-1959; associate professor, U. Pittsburgh, 1959-1967; professor of history of science and European history, U. Pittsburgh, 1967-1986; professor emeritus, U. Pittsburgh, since 1986.
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( The Struggle for Madrid is a study of the battles that ...)
Served with Army of the United States, 1941-1945. Member American History Association, History of Science Society, New York Academy of Sciences, Sigma Xi.
Married Dorothy Newman, June 15, 1946 (deceased 1959). 1 son, Robert Richard. Married Margaret Simon-Yeager, December 10, 1986.