Mäki, Uskali
Recent Developments in the Philosophy of Science: EPSA13 Helsinki
Part I. Truth and Semantics
1. Coherence and (Likeness to) Truth
Michael Schippers
2. A Verisimilitudinarian Rebuttal of a Recent Attack Against Realism
Luca Tambolo
3. Realistic Claims in Logical Empiricism
Matthias Neuber
4. Patchworks of Laws and Partial Structures
Holger Andreas
Part II. Social Epistemology, Rational Choice Theory and Public Policy
5. Social Epistemology, Debate Dynamics, and Truth Approximation
Gustavo Cevolani
6. Wise Crowds, Clever Meta-Inductivists
Paul D. Thorn
7. Is the Equal-Weight View Really Supported by Positive Crowd Effects?
Christian J. Feldbacher
8. Why the Realist-Instrumentalist Debate About Rational Choice Rests on a Mistake
Christine Tiefensee
9. Funding Science by Lottery
Shahar Avin
Part III. Values in Science
10. Researchers Building Nations: Under What Conditions Can Overtly Political Research Be Objective?
Inkeri Koskinen
11. Against the Agnosticism-Argument for Value-Freedom
Anke Bueter
Part IV. Causality
12. Learning About Constitutive Relations
Lena Kästner
13. Reconstituting Phenomena
Maria Kronfeldner
14. Manipulating Spins: Causality and Decoherence
Fernanda Samaniego
Part V. Philosophy of Physics and Chemistry
15. How Fundamental Physics Represents Causality
Andreas Bartels, Daniel Wohlfarth
16. Local Causality and Complete Specification: A Reply to Seevinck and Uffink
Gábor Hofer-Szabó
17. Pragmatists and Purists on CPT Invariance in Relativistic Quantum Field Theories
Jonathan Bain
18. Explanation in Quantum Chemistry
Carsten Seck
19. Are Chemical Kinds Natural Kinds?
Robin Findlay Hendry
Part VI. Induction, Probability and Chaos
20. Why Bertrand’s Paradox Is Not Paradoxical but Is Felt So
Zalán Gyenis, Miklós Rédei
21. Revisiting Smale’s Fourteenth Problem to Discover Two Definitions of Chaos
L. C. Zuchowski
22. Rudolf Carnap: Philosophy of Science as Engineering Explications
Christopher F. French
23. Robustness, Diversity of Evidence, and Probabilistic Independence
Jonah N. Schupbach
Part VII. Fiction, Representation and Explanation
24. Why Does Water Boil? Fictions in Scientific Explanation
Sorin Bangu
25. Scientific Representation, Denotation, and Fictional Entities
Mauricio Suárez
Part VIII. Philosophy of the Life Sciences and of Psychology
26. Non Inferiority Drug Trials and the Trade-offs in RCTs
Cecilia Nardini
27. Against Sex and Gender Dualism in Gender-Specific Medicine
Maria Cristina Amoretti, Nicla Vassallo
28. Biological Essentialism Concerning the Species Category
Edit Talpsepp
29. Two Concepts of Emotional Expression
Trip Glazer
Nyckelord: Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Mathematical Logic and Foundations
- Utgivare
- Mäki, Uskali
- Ruphy, Stéphanie
- Schurz, Gerhard
- Votsis, Ioannis
- Utgivare
- Springer
- Utgivningsår
- 2015
- Språk
- en
- Utgåva
- 1st ed. 2015
- Serie
- European Studies in Philosophy of Science
- Sidantal
- 9 sidor
- Kategori
- Filosofi
- Format
- E-bok
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319230153
- Tryckt ISBN
- 978-3-319-23014-6