The Present Situation in the Philosophy of Science

This volume is a serious attempt to open up the subject of European philosophy of science to real thought, and provide the structural basis for the interdisciplinary development of its specialist fields, but also to provoke reflection on the idea of ‘European philosophy of science’. This efforts sho...

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Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Stadler, Friedrich (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
Σειρά:The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective ; 1
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • History of the Philosophy of Science
  • Some Remarks on Current History of Analytical Philosophy of Science
  • History of Philosophy of Science as Philosophy of Science by Other Means?
  • Aspects of Current History of Philosophy of Science in the French Tradition
  • Reflections on Chimisso: French Philosophy of Science and the Historical Method
  • Aspects of Current History of 19TH Century Philosophy of Science
  • Well, and Pragmatism?
  • Formal Methods
  • Formal and Empirical Methods in Philosophy of Science
  • The Bane of Two Truths
  • Formal Methods in the Philosophy of Natural Science
  • The Problem of Constrained Judgment Aggregation
  • Aggregation Problems and Models: What Comes First?
  • Philosophy of the Natural and Life Sciences
  • Life in a Physical World: The Place of the Life Sciences
  • Comments on Marcel Weber’s “Life in a Physical World: The Place of the Life Sciences”
  • How Special are the Life Sciences? A View from the Natural Kinds Debate
  • The Epistemology-Only Approach to Natural Kinds: A Reply to Thomas Reydon
  • Reductionism in Biology: An Example of Biochemistry
  • Reductionist and Antireductionist Stances in the Health Sciences
  • Philosophy of the Cultural and Social Sciences
  • Trends and Problems in Philosophy of Social and Cultural Sciences: A European Perspective
  • State of the Art A Commentary on Wenceslao J. Gonzalez’ Contribution, “Trends and Problems in Philosophy of Social and Cultural Sciences: A European Perspective”
  • Scientific Realism, the New Mechanical Philosophers, and the Friends of Modelling
  • Is Naturalism the Unsurpassable Philosophy for the Sciences of Man in the 21st Century?
  • What Does it Mean to Be a Naturalist in the Human and Social Sciences?
  • Philosophy of the Physical Sciences
  • Reichenbach and the Conventionality of Distant Simultaneity in Perspective
  • On Various Senses of “Conventional” and Their Interrelation in the Philosophy of Physics: Simultaneity as a Case Study
  • Determinism and Chance from a Humean Perspective
  • What Remains of Probability?
  • Humean Perspectives on Structural Realism
  • The Characterisation of Structure: Definition versus Axiomatisation.