Recent Developments in the Philosophy of Science: EPSA13 Helsinki
This volume showcases the best of recent research in the philosophy of science. A compilation of papers presented at the EPSA 13, it explores a broad distribution of topics such as causation, truthlikeness, scientific representation, gender-specific medicine, laws of nature, science funding and the...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Έκδοση: | 1st ed. 2015. |
| Σειρά: | European Studies in Philosophy of Science,
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Preface
- Part I. Truth and Semantics
- Chapter 1. Coherence and (Likeness to) Truth; Michael Schippers
- Chapter 2. A Verisimilitudinarian Rebuttal of a Recent Attack Against Realism; Luca Tambolo
- Chapter 3. Realistic Claims in Logical Empiricism; Matthias Neuber
- Chapter 4. Patchworks of Laws and Partial Structures; Holger Andreas
- Part II. Social Epistemology, Rational Choice Theory and Public Policy
- Chapter 5. Social Epistemology, Debate Dynamics, and Truth Approximation; Gustavo Cevolani
- Chapter 6. Wise Crowds, Clever Meta-Inductivists; Paul Thorn
- Chapter 7. Is the Equal-Weight View Really Supported by Positive Crowd Effects?; Christian Feldbacher
- Chapter 8. Why the Realist-Instrumentalist Debate About Rational Choice Rests On A Mistake; Christine Tiefensee
- Chapter 9. Funding Science By Lottery; Shahar Avin
- Part III. Values in Science
- Chapter 10. Researchers Building Nations: Under What Conditions Can Overtly Political Research Be & Objective?; Inkeri Koskinen
- Chapter 11. Against the Agnosticism-Argument for Value-Freedom; Anke Bueter
- Part IV. Causality
- Chapter 12. Learning About Constitutive Relations; Lena Kaestner
- Chapter 13. Reconstituting Phenomena; Maria Kronfelder
- Chapter 14. Manipulating Spins: Causality and Decoherence; Fernanda Samaniego
- Part V. Philosophy of Physics and Chemistry
- Chapter 15. How Fundamental Physics Represents Causality; Andreas Bartels and Daniel Wohlfarth
- Chapter 16. Local Causality and Complete Specification: A Reply to Seevinck and Uffink; Gábor Hofer-Szabó
- Chapter 17. Pragmatists and Purists on CPT Invariance in Relativistic Quantum Field Theories; Jonathan Bain
- Chapter 18. Explanation in Quantum Chemistry; Carsten Seck
- Chapter 19. Are Chemical Kinds Natural Kinds?; Robin Hendry.- Part VI. Induction, Probability and Chaos
- Chapter 20. Why Bertrand's Paradox Is Not Paradoxical But Is Felt So; Zalan Gyenis and Miklos Redei
- Chapter 21. Revisiting Smale's Fourteenth Problem to Discover Two Definitions of Chaos; Lena Zuchowski
- Chapter 22. Rudolf Carnap: Philosophy of Science as Engineering Explications; Christopher French
- Chapter 23. Robustness, Diversity of Evidence, and Probabilistic Independence; Jonah Schupbach.-Part VII. Fiction, Representation and Explanation
- Chapter 24. Why does Water Boil? Fictions in Scientific Explanation; Sorin Bangu
- Chapter 25. Scientific Representation, Denotation, and Fictional Entities; Mauricio Suárez
- Part VIII. Philosophy of the Life Sciences and of Psychology
- Chapter 26. Non Inferiority Drug Trials and the Trade-Offs in RCTs; Cecilia Nardini
- Chapter 27. Against Sex and Gender Dualism in Gender-Specific Medicine; Maria Christina Amoretti and Nicla Vassalo
- Chapter 28. Biological Essentialism Concerning the Species Category; Edit Talpsepp
- Chapter 29. Two Concepts of Emotional Expression; Trip Glazer.
