Dieks, Dennis
Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation
1. The No Miracles Intuition and the No Miracles Argument
John Worrall
2. The Scope and Limits of the No Miracles Argument
Stathis Psillos
3. Causation, Association and Confirmation
Gregory Wheeler, Richard Scheines
4. An Objective Bayesian Account of Confirmation
Jon Williamson
5. An Explication of the Use of Inference to the Best Explanation
Adam Grobler
6. A Formal Logic for the Abduction of Singular Hypotheses
Joke Meheus
7. Probabilities in Branching Structures
Thomas Müller
8. Causality and Explanation: Issues from Epidemiology
Raffaella Campaner
9. Invariance, Mechanisms and Epidemiology
Samuel Schindler
10. What’s Wrong with the Pragmatic-Ontic Account of Mechanistic Explanation?
Alexander Reutlinger
11. Causality and Evidence Discovery in Epidemiology
Michael Joffe
12. Inferences to Causal Relevance from Experiments
Gerd Graßhoff
13. Comparing Part-Whole Reductive Explanations in Biology and Physics
Alan C. Love, Andreas Hüttemann
14. The Arrival of the Fittest
Peter McLaughlin
15. The Arrival of the Fittest
Thomas A. C. Reydon
16. Normativity is the Key to the Difference Between the Human and the Natural Sciences
Wolfgang Spohn
17. Methodological Higher-Level Interdisciplinarity by Scheme-Interpretationism: Against Methodological Separatism of the Natural, Social, and Human Sciences
Hans Lenk
18. Explanation and Interpretation in the Sciences of Man
Jan Faye
19. Imagination and Explanation in History
Peter Kemp
20. Historical Narratives, Evidence, and Explanations
Paolo Garbolino
21. Holistic Social Causation and Explanation
Raimo Tuomela
22. Complexity in Economics and Prediction: The Role of Parsimonious Factors
Wenceslao J. Gonzalez
23. Prediction and Prescription in the Science of the Artificial: Information Science and Complexity
Maria G. Bonome
24. Against Pointillisme: A Call to Arms
Jeremy Butterfield
25. The Gibbs Paradox Revisited
Dennis Dieks
26. The Alexandroff Present and Minkowski Spacetime: Why it Cannot Do What it has Been Asked to Do
Mauro Dorato
27. A Locus for “Now”
Tomasz Placek
28. Weyl’s Principle, Cosmic Time and Quantum Fundamentalism
S. E. Rugh, H. Zinkernagel
29. Not Throwing out the Baby with the Bathwater: Bell’s Condition of Local Causality Mathematically ‘Sharp and Clean’
M. P. Seevinck, J. Uffink
30. Kant on Chance and Explanation
Berna Kilinc
31. Shifting the (Non-Relativized) A Priori: Hans Reichenbach on Causality and Probability (1915–1932)
Michael Stöltzner
32. Carnap’s Theories of Confirmation
Pierre Wagner
33. The Rise and Fall of Falsificationism in the Light of Neurath’s Criticism
Artur Koterski
34. Probability and Pragmatism
Maria Carla Galavotti
35. Russell on Non-Demonstrative Inference
Graham Stevens
36. Edgar Zilsel on Historical Laws
Elisabeth Nemeth
37. “Every System of Scientific Theory Involves Philosophical Assumptions” (Talcott Parsons). The Surprising Weberian Roots to Milton Friedman’s Methodology
Eric Schliesser
Keywords: Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Nature, Epistemology, Ontology
- Author(s)
- Dieks, Dennis
- Gonzalez, Wenceslao J.
- Hartmann, Stephan
- Uebel, Thomas
- Weber, Marcel
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2011
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective
- Page amount
- 8 pages
- Category
- Philosophy
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9789400711808