Christian, Alexander
Philosophy of Science
Part I. Philosophy of Physics
1. Are There Good Arguments Against Scientific Realism?
Paul Hoyningen-Huene
2. Quantum Gravity: A Dogma of Unification?
Kian Salimkhani
3. On Predictions and Explanations in Multiverse Scenarios
Keizo Matsubara
4. The Clock Paradox: Luise Lange’s Discussion
Andrea Reichenberger
Part II. Philosophy of Life Sciences
5. Bio-Agency and the Possibility of Artificial Agents
Anne Sophie Meincke
6. When Mechanisms Are Not Enough: The Origin of Eukaryotes and Scientific Explanation
Roger Deulofeu, Javier Suárez
7. Functions, Malfunctioning, and Negative Causation
Ludger Jansen
8. Disease Entities, Negative Causes, Multifactoriality, and the Naturalness of Disease Classifications. Remarks on Some Philosophical Misperceptions of Medical Pathology
Peter Hucklenbroich
Part III. Philosophy of Social Sciences and Values in Science
9. Identifying Agnotological Ploys: How to Stay Clear of Unjustified Dissent
Martin Carrier
10. The “Ought”-Dimension in Value Theory: The Concept of the Desirable in John Dewey’s Definition of Value and Its Significance for the Social Sciences
Elizaveta Kostrova
11. From Stability to Validity: How Standards Serve Epistemic Ends
Lara Huber
Part IV. Philosophy of Mathematics and Formal Modeling
12. Constitutive Inference and the Problem of a Complete Variation of Factors
Jens Harbecke
13. A Partial Calculus for Dag Prawitz’s Theory of Grounds and a Decidability Issue
Antonio Piccolomini d’Aragona
14. Models in Search of Targets: Exploratory Modelling and the Case of Turing Patterns
Axel Gelfert
Keywords: Philosophy, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Philosophy of Nature, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Mathematics
- Editor
- Christian, Alexander
- Hommen, David
- Retzlaff, Nina
- Schurz, Gerhard
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2018
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- European Studies in Philosophy of Science
- Page amount
- 21 pages
- Category
- Philosophy
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319725772
- Printed ISBN
- 978-3-319-72576-5