New directions in the philosophy of science
Maria Carla Galavotti, Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao J. Gonzalez, Stephan Hartmann, Thomas Uebel, Marcel Weber, editors.
Bok · Engelsk · 2014
| Utgitt | Cham, Switzerland ; New York : : Springer, , 2014.
|
|---|---|
| Omfang | xii, 773 pages : : illustrations ;
|
| Opplysninger | "Proceedings of the ESF Research Networking Programme"--Series title page.. - Selected articles from presentations given at three events organized by the European Science Foundation Research Networking Programme in 2012: the conference "New directions in the philosophy of science," held October 17-20 at the University of Bologna; the workshop "Causation, dispositions and probabilities in physics and biology," held November 22-24 at the University of Lausanne; and the workshop "Philosophy and the sciences - old visions, new directions," held November 30-December 1 at the University of Cambridge. (Preface).. - Critical realism in perspective : remarks on a neglected current in neo-Kantian epistemology / Matthias Neuber -- Realism without mirrors / Henrik Rydenfelt -- The continuing relevance of nineteenth-century philosophy of psychology : Brentano and the autonomy of psychological methods / Uljana Feest -- On the logical positivists' philosophy of psychology : laying a legend to rest / Sean Crawford -- Epistemology historicized : the French tradition / Anastasios Brenner -- Commentary on Anastasios Brenner's "Epistemology historicized" / Cristina Chimisso -- History and philosophy of science : between description and construction / Friedrich Stadler.. - Good just isn't good enough : Humean chances and Boltzmannian statistical physics / Claus Beisbart -- Unsharp Humean chances in statistical physics : a reply to Beisbart / Radin Dardashti, Luke Glynn, Karim Thébault, and Mathias Frisch -- Noncommutative causality in algebraic quantum field theory / Gábor Hofer-Szabó -- Lost in translation : a comment on "Noncommutative causality in algebraic quantum field theory" / Dustin Lazarovici -- Causal probabilities in GRW quantum mechanics / Tomasz Placek -- Physics, metaphysics and mathematics / Dennis Dieks -- Where would we be without counterfactuals? / Huw Price -- Pragmatism and European philosophy : William James and the French-Italian connection / Massimo Ferrari -- European pragmatism? : further thoughts on the German and Austrian reception of American pragmatism / Thomas Uebel -- New prospects for pragmatism : Ramsey's constructivism / Maria Carla Galavotti --.. - Living instruments and theoretical terms : xenografts as measurements in cancer research / Pierre-Luc Germain -- Developmental explanation / Veli-Pekka Parkkinen -- What counts as causation in physics and biology? / Jan Faye -- Challenges to characterizing the notion of causation across disciplinary boundaries : comment on Faye / Jan Baedke -- Just complexity / Max Urchs -- Confessions of a complexity skeptic / Raphael Scholl -- New directions in the philosophy of biology : a new taxonomy of functions / Cristian Saborido -- How essentialism properly understood might reconcile realism and social constructivism / Wolfgang Spohn -- Social construction -- by whom? / Matti Sintonen -- Is social constructivism soluble in critical naturalism? / Daniel Andler -- Scientific representation, reflexivity, and the possibility of constructive realism / Tarja Knuuttila -- The limits of realism in the philosophy of social science / David-Hillel Ruben --.. - The social re-construction of agency / Katarzyna Paprzycka -- Local realism : an analysis of social choice theory / Obdulia Torres González -- Objectivity and visual practices in science and art / Chiara Ambrosio -- Cultural information : don't ask, don't tell / Tim Lewens -- Introducing QBism / Christopher A. Fuchs -- A critic looks at QBism / Guido Bacciagaluppi -- Elementary particles and metaphysics / F.A. Muller -- Assessing the status of the common cause principle / Miklós Rédei -- A note on strong causal closedness and completability of classical probability spaces / Micha@0142 Marczyk and Leszek Wro´nski -- Artificial examples of empirical equivalence / Pablo Acuña -- The measurement problem is your problem too / Ronnie Hermens -- Pros and cons of physics in logics / Petr @02C7Svarný -- How fundamental physics represents causality / Andreas Bartels and Daniel Wohlfarth -- Anchoring causal connections in physical concepts / Mario Hubert and Roland Poellinger --.. - Things in possible experiments : case-intensional logic as a framework for tracing things from case to case / Thomas Müller -- The proof is in the process : a preamble for a philosophy of computer-assisted mathematics / Liesbeth De Mol -- The future role of computation in science and society / Patrick Suppes -- In no categorical terms : a sketch for an alternative route to a Humean interpretation of laws / Kerry McKenzie -- The undeniable effectiveness of mathematics in the special sciences / Mark Colyvan -- Comment on "The undeniable effectiveness of mathematics in the special sciences" / Tim Räz -- Explanatory pluralism in psychiatry : what are we pluralists about, and why? / Raffaella Campaner -- Pluralists about pluralism? : different versions of explanatory pluralism in psychiatry / Jeroen Van Bouwel -- Shifting attention from theory to practice in philosophy of biology / C. Kenneth Waters --.
|
| ISBN | 3319043811. - 9783319043814
|