Foreword (by Peeter Müürsepp and Mait Talts)

Notes on the Contributors

GENERAL ISSUES

Jānis Stradiņš, Anita Draveniece. The European Academy of Sciences and Arts: Its Impact on Latvia

Juozas Algimantas Krikštopaitis. The Joint Baltic Course of Intellectual Activity: A Relevant Subject for Discussion

Claude Debru. Science and Human Normativity

PHILOSOPHY AND METHODOLOGY OF SCIENCE

Peeter Müürsepp. Knowledge in Science and Non-Science

Leo Näpinen. On the Unfitness of the Exact Science for the Understanding of Nature

Enn Kasak. Some Aspects of Religiosity in Science

Endla Lõhkivi. Identity and Rationality: Towards Normative Cultural Studies of Science

Katrin Velbaum. Worrall’s Rule and a Critique of Standard Empiricism

Jan Radler. Arne Naess’ Meta-Philosophy: From ‘Empirical Semantics’ to ‘Deep Ecology’

HISTORY OF SCIENCE, MEDICINE AND TECHNOLOGY

Algimantas Grigelis, Leonora Živilė Gelumbauskaitė. Development of Geological Studies in Lithuania: New Records on Roman Symonowicz’s 1803 Mineralogical Travel

Laima Petrauskienė, Jadvyga Olechnovičienė. The Fame of Scientists: Does It Reflect Their Real Contribution to Science?

Marina Loskutova. Public Science as a Network: The Congresses of Russian Naturalists and Physicians in the 1860s–1910s

Raivo Kalle, Renata Sõukand. Collectors of Estonian Folk Botanical Knowledge

Heldur Sander, Toivo Meikar. Botanical Garden of the University of Tartu (Dorpat) and the Botanical Network in the First Half of the 19th Century

Ieva Libiete. Fighting Schizophrenia: Beginnings of Somatic Treatments in Psychiatry in Riga Sarkankalns Hospital in the 1930s

Vladimirs Kuzņecovs. Abolishment of the Military Guard at the Riga Alexander Heights Institution in 1856: War as a Monitor of Humanization?

Angelė Rudzianskaitė, Vilma Gudienė. Advertisements in Professional Lithuanian Pharmaceutical Journals, 1923–1940

Mikko Kylliäinen. Riding toward the Civil Society: Bicycle in Nineteenth-Century Estonia

HISTORY OF THE HUMANITIES AND EDUCATION

Helgi Vihma. On the Origin of the Ideas of Estonian Language Reformer Johannes Aavik

Kateryna Gamaliya. Vladimir (Woldemar Justus Konstantin) Malmberg (1860–1921), Professor of Dorpat and Moscow Universities

Epi Tohvri. Some New Aspects of Georges Frédéric Parrot’s Visions about the Institutional and Architectural Establishment of the University of Tartu in the Early 19th Century

Iveta Ķestere, Iveta Ozola. Pedagogy: A Discipline under Diverse Appellations

Vahur Mägi. Estonian Technology Education in Exile after the Second World War

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

Anastasia A. Fedotova. Encyclopedic Dictionary Biology in St Petersburg 1703–2008

Juris Salaks. Exhibition Dedicated to the Bicentenary of Professor Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov (1810–1881) in the Pauls Stradins Museum of the History of Medicine in Riga

Mait Talts. The Follow-up Seminar of the 24th International Baltic Conference on the History of Science