Dieks, Dennis
Probabilities, Laws, and Structures
1. Dutch Book Arguments and Imprecise Probabilities
Seamus Bradley
2. Objectifying Subjective Probabilities: Dutch Book Arguments for Principles of Direct Inference
Timothy Childers
3. The Foundations of Statistics: Inference vs. Decision
Ilkka Niiniluoto
4. On the Verisimilitude of Tendency Hypotheses
Roberto Festa
5. Tweety, or Why Probabilism and even Bayesianism Need Objective and Evidential Probabilities
Gerhard Schurz
6. Pluralism in Probabilistic Justification
David Atkinson, Jeanne Peijnenburg
7. One Size Does Not Fit All: Proposal for a Prior-adapted
Jan-Willem Romeijn, Rens Schoot, Herbert Hoijtink
8. Mathematical Biology and the Existence of Biological Laws
Mauro Dorato
9. On Empirical Generalisations
Federica Russo
10. The Limits of
Sebastian Mateiescu
11. Causal Realism
Michael Esfeld
12. Structural Invariants, Structural Kinds, Structural Laws
Holger Lyre
13. Santa’s Gift of Structural Realism
Paul Hoyningen-Huene
14. The Resilience of Laws and the Ephemerality of Objects: Can a Form of Structuralism be Extended to Biology?
Steven French
15. Natural Kinds, Conceptual Change, and the Duck-Bill Platypus: LaPorte on Incommensurability
Michela Massimi
16. Essentialism About Kinds: An Undead Issue in the Philosophies of Physics and Biology?
Thomas A. C. Reydon
17. Biological Laws and Kinds Within a Conservative Reductionist Framework
Christian Sachse
18. Why It Is Time to Move Beyond Nagelian Reduction
Marie I. Kaiser
19. Probability, Indeterminism and Biological Processes
Charlotte Werndl
20. Bayesianism, Convergence and Molecular Phylogenetics
Bengt Autzen
21. Quantities as Realistic Idealizations
Ilkka Niiniluoto
22. Mathematics as Quasi-matter to Build Models as Instruments
Marcel Boumans
23. Mathematical Models and Economic Forecasting: Some Uses and Mis-Uses of Mathematics in Economics
David F. Hendry
24. Technomathematical Models in the Social Sciences
Javier Echeverria
25. The Use of Mathematics in Physics and Economics: A Comparison
Donald Gillies
26. Mathematics in Cognitive Science
Daniel Andler
27. What Can the Social Sciences Learn from the Process of Mathematization in the Natural Sciences
Ladislav Kvasz
28. Probability, Statistics, and Law
Maria Carla Galavotti
29. Experiments in Political Science: The Case of the Voting Rules
Adrian Miroiu
30. The Beginning of Model Theory in the Algebra of Logic
Volker Peckhaus
31. Incomplete Symbols and the Theory of Logical Types
Graham Stevens
32. Statistical Thinking between Natural and Social Sciences and the Issue of the Unity of Science: from Quetelet to the Vienna Circle
Donata Romizi
33. The Backbone of the Straw Man Popper’s Critique of the Vienna Circle’s Inductivism
Artur Koterski
34. Carnap’s Logic of Science and Personal Probability
Thomas Uebel
35. Erwin Schrödinger, Vienna Indeterminist
Michael Stöltzner
36. Some Historical and Philosophical Aspects of Quantum Probability Theory and its Interpretation
Miklós Rédei
Avainsanat: Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Philosophy of Biology, Epistemology
- Tekijä(t)
- Dieks, Dennis
- Gonzalez, Wenceslao J.
- Hartmann, Stephan
- Stöltzner, Michael
- Weber, Marcel
- Julkaisija
- Springer
- Julkaisuvuosi
- 2012
- Kieli
- en
- Painos
- 2012
- Sarja
- The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective
- Sivumäärä
- 11 sivua
- Kategoria
- Filosofia
- Tiedostomuoto
- E-kirja
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9789400730304