The Network was approved by the ESF Network Group in May 2000 for a three-year period.
The Chairman was Professor Maria Carla Galavotti, from University of Bologna.

Main topics of the Network are: logical empiricism; inductivism and deductivism; the structure of science; idealisation and concretisation.

The dossier contains correspondence on the establishment and management of the Network: proposal, research assessment, general correspondence, final report.
It contains documents on meetings and workshops: report of the Coordination Committee meeting, held in Strasbourg, on 14 Oct 2000; programme of the workshop on "Observation and experiment in the natural and social sciences", held in Bertinoro (Bologna), on 30 Sep – 2 Oct 2001; programme of the workshop on "Induction and deduction in the sciences", held in Aula, on 7-9 July 2002; report of the Coordination Committee meeting held in Vienna, on 9 July 2002; report of the Coordination Committee meeting, held in London, on 9 Sep 2003; summary report 2000-2003; report of the Vienna meeting, held on 30 Nov – 1 Dec 2003.

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