Romanian Studies in Philosophy of Science

This book presents a collection of studies by Romanian philosophers, addressing foundational issues currently debated in contemporary philosophy of science. It offers a historical survey of the tradition of scientific philosophy in Romania. It examines some problems in the foundations of logic, math...

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Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Pȃrvu, Ilie (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Sandu, Gabriel (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Toader, Iulian D. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Σειρά:Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 313
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • PART A: SCIENTIFIC PRACTICES AND PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITIONS
  • Chapter 1: The Tradition of Scientific Philosophy in Romania; Ilie Pârvu
  • Chapter 2: What Ought to be Done and What is Forbidden: Rules of Scientific Research as Categorical or Hypothetical Imperatives; Mircea Flonta
  • PART B: MIND, LANGUAGE, AND TECHNOLOGY
  • Chapter 3: Memory as Window on the Mind; Radu Bogdan
  • Chapter 4: A Momentous Triangle: Ontology, Methodology and Phenomenology in the Philosophy of Language; Manuela Ungureanu
  • Chapter 5: On Rule Embedding Artifacts; Gheorghe Ştefanov
  • Chapter 6: Issues in Modeling Open-Ended Evolution; Andreea Eșanu
  • PART C: LOGIC, SEMANTICS, AND SOCIAL CHOICE
  • Chapter 7: On a Combination of Truth and Probability: Probabilistic Independence-Friendly Logic; Gabriel Sandu
  • Chapter 8: A Remark on a Relational Version of Robinson’s Arithmetic Q; Mihai Ganea
  • Chapter 9: The Simple Majority Rule in a Three-Valued Logic Framework; Adrian Miroiu
  • Chapter 10: A Free Logic for Fictionalism; Mircea Dumitru
  • PART D: QUANTUM PHENOMENA, SCIENTIFIC REALISM, AND EMERGENCE
  • Chapter 11:Quantum Mechanics: Knocking at the Gates of Mathematical Foundations; Radu Ionicioiu
  • Chapter 12: The Quantum Vacuum; Sorin Paraoanu
  • Chapter 13: Structural Pluralism and S-dualities: A Project in String Realism; Ioan Muntean
  • Chapter 14: The Prospects for Fusion Emergence; Alexandru Manafu
  • PART E: EXPLANATION, MODELS, AND MECHANISMS
  • Chapter 15: Scientific Progress, Understanding, and Unification; Sorin Bangu
  • Chapter 16: When is a Mechanistic Explanation Satisfactory? Reductionism and Antireductionism in the Context of Mechanistic Explanations; Tudor Baetu
  • Chapter 17: Causal and Mechanistic Explanations, and a Lesson from Ecology; Viorel Pâslaru
  • Chapter 18: Against Harmony: Infinite Idealization and Causal Explanation; Iulian D. Toader.