Title:
Probabilities, Laws, and Structures edited by Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao J. Gonzalez, Stephan Hartmann, Michael Stöltzner, Marcel Weber.
The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective ;
The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective ;
Main Entry:
Dieks, Dennis. editor.
Gonzalez, Wenceslao J. editor.
Hartmann, Stephan. editor.
Stöltzner, Michael. editor.
Weber, Marcel. editor.
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Publisher:
Springer Netherlands,
Publication Date:
2012.
Publication Place:
Dordrecht :
ISBN:
9789400730304
Subject:
Philosophy (General).
Genetic epistemology.
Biology -- Philosophy.
Science -- Philosophy.
Social sciences -- Philosophy.
Philosophy.
Philosophy of Science.
Philosophy of the Social Sciences.
Philosophy of Biology.
Epistemology.
Series:
The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective ; 3
The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective ; 3
Contents:
MARCEL WEBER, Preface.- Team A: Formal Methods SEAMUS BRADLEY, Dutch Book Arguments and Imprecise Probabilities.-TIMOTHY CHILDERS, Objectifying Subjective Probabilities: Dutch Book Arguments for Principles of Direct Inference.- ILKKA NIINILUOTO, The Foundations of Statistics: Inference vs. Decision -- ROBERTO FESTA, On the Verisimilitude of Tendency Hypotheses.-GERHARD SCHURZ, Tweety, or Why Probabilism and even Bayesianism Need Objective and Evidential Probabilities.-DAVID ATKINSON AND JEANNE PEIJNENBURG, Pluralism in Probabilistic Justification.- JAN-WILLEM ROMEIJN, RENS VAN DE SCHOOT, HERBERT HOIJTINK, One Size Does not Fit All: Proposal for a Prior-adapted BIC.- Team B: Philosophy of the Natural and Life Sciences Team D: Philosophy of the Physical Sciences.-MAURO DORATO, Mathematical Biology and the Existence of Biological Laws.-FEDERICA RUSSO, On Empirical Generalisations.-SEBASTIAN MATEIESCU, The Limits of Interventionism – Causality in the Social Sciences.-MICHAEL ESFELD, Causal Realism.-HOLGER LYRE, Structural Invariants, Structural Kinds, Structural Laws.-PAUL HOYNINGEN-HUENE, Santa's Gift of Structural Realism.-STEVEN FRENCH, The Resilience of Laws and the Ephemerality of Objects: Can a Form of Structuralism be Extended to Biology? -- MICHELA MASSIMI, Natural Kinds, Conceptual Change, and the Duck-bill Platypus: LaPorte on Incommensurability.-THOMAS A. C. REYDON, Essentialism about Kinds: An Undead Issue in the Philosophies of Physics and Biology?.-CHRISTIAN SACHSE, Biological Laws and Kinds within a Conservative Reductionist Framework.-ARIE I. KAISER, Why It Is Time to Move beyond Nagelian Reduction.-CHARLOTTE WERNDL, Probability, Indeterminism and Biological Processes.-BENGT AUTZEN, Bayesianism, Convergence and Molecular Phylogenetics -- Team C: Philosophy of the Cultural and Social Sciences.-ILKKA NIINILUOTO, Quantities as Realistic Idealizations.-MARCEL BOUMANS, Mathematics as Quasi-matter to Build Models as Instruments.-DAVID F. HENDRY, Mathematical Models and Economic Forecasting: Some Uses and Mis-Uses of Mathematics in Economics.-JAVIER ECHEVERRIA, Technomathematical Models in the Social Sciences.-DONALD GILLIES, The Use of Mathematics in Physics and Economics: A Comparison.-DANIEL ANDLER, Mathematics in Cognitive Science.-LADISLAV KVASZ, What Can the Social Sciences Learn from the Process of Mathematization in the Natural Sciences.-MARIA CARLA GALAVOTTI, Probability, Statistics, and Law.-ADRIAN MIROIU, Experiments in Political Science: The Case of the Voting Rules -- Team E: History of the Philosophy of Science VOLKER PECKHAUS, The Beginning of Model Theory in the Algebra of Logic.-GRAHAM STEVENS, Incomplete Symbols and the Theory of Logical Types.-DONATA ROMIZI, Statistical Thinking between Natural and Social Sciences and the Issue of the Unity of Science: From Quetelet to the Vienna Circle.-ARTUR KOTERSKI, The Backbone of the Straw Man. Popper’s Critique of the Vienna Circle’s Inductivism.-THOMAS UEBEL, Carnap’s Logic of Science and Personal Probability.-MICHAEL STÖLTZNER, Erwin Schrödinger, Vienna Indeterminist.-MIKLOS REDEI, Some Historical and Philosophical Aspects of Quantum Probability Theory and its Interpretation.-INDEX OF NAMES. SEAMUS BRADLEY, Dutch Book Arguments and Imprecise Probabilities.-TIMOTHY CHILDERS, Objectifying Subjective Probabilities: Dutch Book Arguments for Principles of Direct Inference.- ILKKA NIINILUOTO, The Foundations of Statistics: Inference vs. Decision -- ROBERTO FESTA, On the Verisimilitude of Tendency Hypotheses.-GERHARD SCHURZ, Tweety, or Why Probabilism and even Bayesianism Need Objective and Evidential Probabilities.-DAVID ATKINSON AND JEANNE PEIJNENBURG, Pluralism in Probabilistic Justification.- JAN-WILLEM ROMEIJN, RENS VAN DE SCHOOT, HERBERT HOIJTINK, One Size Does not Fit All: Proposal for a Prior-adapted BIC.- Team B: Philosophy of the Natural and Life Sciences Team D: Philosophy of the Physical Sciences.-MAURO DORATO, Mathematical Biology and the Existence of Biological Laws.-FEDERICA RUSSO, On Empirical Generalisations.-SEBASTIAN MATEIESCU, The Limits of Interventionism – Causality in the Social Sciences.-MICHAEL ESFELD, Causal Realism.-HOLGER LYRE, Structural Invariants, Structural Kinds, Structural Laws.-PAUL HOYNINGEN-HUENE, Santa's Gift of Structural Realism.-STEVEN FRENCH, The Resilience of Laws and the Ephemerality of Objects: Can a Form of Structuralism be Extended to Biology? -- MICHELA MASSIMI, Natural Kinds, Conceptual Change, and the Duck-bill Platypus: LaPorte on Incommensurability.-THOMAS A. C. REYDON, Essentialism about Kinds: An Undead Issue in the Philosophies of Physics and Biology?.-CHRISTIAN SACHSE, Biological Laws and Kinds within a Conservative Reductionist Framework.-ARIE I. KAISER, Why It Is Time to Move beyond Nagelian Reduction.-CHARLOTTE WERNDL, Probability, Indeterminism and Biological Processes.-BENGT AUTZEN, Bayesianism, Convergence and Molecular Phylogenetics -- Team C: Philosophy of the Cultural and Social Sciences.-ILKKA NIINILUOTO, Quantities as Realistic Idealizations.-MARCEL BOUMANS, Mathematics as Quasi-matter to Build Models as Instruments.-DAVID F. HENDRY, Mathematical Models and Economic Forecasting: Some Uses and Mis-Uses of Mathematics in Economics.-JAVIER ECHEVERRIA, Technomathematical Models in the Social Sciences.-DONALD GILLIES, The Use of Mathematics in Physics and Economics: A Comparison.-DANIEL ANDLER, Mathematics in Cognitive Science.-LADISLAV KVASZ, What Can the Social Sciences Learn from the Process of Mathematization in the Natural Sciences.-MARIA CARLA GALAVOTTI, Probability, Statistics, and Law.-ADRIAN MIROIU, Experiments in Political Science: The Case of the Voting Rules -- Team E: History of the Philosophy of Science VOLKER PECKHAUS, The Beginning of Model Theory in the Algebra of Logic.-GRAHAM STEVENS, Incomplete Symbols and the Theory of Logical Types.-DONATA ROMIZI, Statistical Thinking between Natural and Social Sciences and the Issue of the Unity of Science: From Quetelet to the Vienna Circle.-ARTUR KOTERSKI, The Backbone of the Straw Man. Popper’s Critique of the Vienna Circle’s Inductivism.-THOMAS UEBEL, Carnap’s Logic of Science and Personal Probability.-MICHAEL STÖLTZNER, Erwin Schrödinger, Vienna Indeterminist.-MIKLOS REDEI, Some Historical and Philosophical Aspects of Quantum Probability Theory and its Interpretation.-INDEX OF NAMES. .
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