Title:
New Directions in the Philosophy of Science edited by Maria Carla Galavotti, Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao J. Gonzalez, Stephan Hartmann, Thomas Uebel, Marcel Weber.
The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective ;
The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective ;
Main Entry:
Galavotti, Maria Carla. editor.
Dieks, Dennis. editor.
Gonzalez, Wenceslao J. editor.
Hartmann, Stephan. editor.
Uebel, Thomas. editor.
Weber, Marcel. editor.
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Publisher:
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
Publication Date:
2014.
Publication Place:
Cham :
ISBN:
9783319043821
Subject:
Philosophy.
Philosophy and science.
Philosophy.
Philosophy of Science.
Series:
The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective ; 5
The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective ; 5
Contents:
Preface: Maria Carla Galavotti -- TEAM A: FORMAL METHODS -- Chapter 1: Things in Possible Experiments. Case-intensional Logic as a Framework for Tracing Things from Case to Case; Thomas Müller -- Chapter 2: The Proof Is in the Process. A Preamble for a Philosophy of Computer-assisted Mathematics; Liesbeth de Mol -- Chapter 3: The Future Role of Computation in Science and Society; Patrick Suppes -- Chapter 4: In No Categorical Terms: A Sketch for an Alternative Route to a Humean Interpretation of Laws; Kerry McKenzie -- Chapter 5: The Undeniable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Special Sciences; Mark Colyvan -- Chapter 6: Comment on “The Undeniable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Special Sciences”; Tim Räz -- TEAM B: PHILOSOPHY OF THE NATURAL AND LIFE SCIENCES -- Chapter 7: Explanatory Pluralism in Psychiatry: What Are We Pluralists about, and Why? Raffaella Campaner -- Chapter 8: Pluralists about Pluralism? Different Versions of Explanatory Pluralism in Psychiatry; Jeroen van Bouwel -- Chapter 9: Shifting Attention from Theory to Practice in Philosophy of Biology; C. Kenneth Waters -- Chapter 10: Living Instruments and Theoretical Terms: Xenografts as Measurements in Cancer Research; Pierre-Luc Germain -- Chapter 11: Developmental Explanation; Veli-Pekka Parkkinen -- Chapter 12: What Counts as Causation in Physics and Biology? Jan Faye -- Chapter 13: Challenges to Characterizing the Notion of Causation across Disciplinary Boundaries: Comment on Faye; Jan Baedke -- Chapter 14: Just Complexity; Max Urchs -- Chapter 15: Confessions of a Complexity Skeptic; Raphael Scholl -- Chapter 16: New Directions in the Philosophy of Biology: A New Taxonomy of Functions; Cristian Saborido -- TEAM C: PHILOSOPHY OF THE CULTURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Chapter 17: How Essentialism Properly Understood Might Reconcile Realism and Social Constructivism; Wolfgang Spohn -- Chapter 18: Social Construction – by Whom? Matti Sintonen -- Chapter 19: Is Social Constructivism Soluble in Critical Naturalism? Daniel Andler -- Chapter 20: Scientific Representation, Reflexivity, and the Possibility of Constructive Realism; Tarja Knuuttila -- Chapter 21: The Limits of Realism in the Philosophy of Social Science; David-Hillel Ruben -- Chapter 22: The Social Re-Construction of Agency; Katarzyna Paprzycka -- Chapter 23: Local Realism. An Analysis of Social Choice Theory; Obdulia Torres -- Chapter 24: Objectivity and Visual Practices in Science and Art; Chiara Ambrosio -- Chapter 25: Cultural Information: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell; Tim Lewens. TEAM D: PHILOSOPHY OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES -- Chapter 26: Introducing QBism; Christopher A. Fuchs -- Chapter 27: A Critic Looks at QBism; Guido Bacciagaluppi -- Chapter 28: Elementary Particles and Metaphysics; F.A. Muller -- Chapter 29: Assessing the Status of the Common Cause Principle; Miklós Rédei -- Chapter 30: A Note on Strong Causal Closedness and Completability of Classical Probability Spaces; Leszek Wroński and Michał Marczyk -- Chapter 31: Artificial Examples of Empirical Equivalence; Pablo Acuña -- Chapter 32: The Measurement Problem is Your Problem Too; Ronnie Hermens -- Chapter 33: Pros and Cons of Physics in Logics; Petr Švarný -- Chapter 34: How Fundamental Physics Represents Causality; Andreas Bartels and Daniel Wohlfarth -- Chapter 35: How Fundamental Physics Represents Causality. Comment; Mario Hubert and Roland Poellinger -- Chapter 36: Good Just Isn’t Good Enough - Humean Chances and Boltzmannian Statistical Physics; Claus Beisbart -- Chapter 37: Unsharp Humean Chances in Statistical Physics: A Reply to Beisbart; Radin Dardashti, Luke Glynn, Karim Thébault and Mathias Frisch -- Chapter 38: Noncommutative Causality in Algebraic Quantum Field Theory; Gábor Hofer-Szabó -- Chapter 39: Lost in Translation. A Comment on “Noncommutative Causality in Algebraic Quantum Field Theory”; Dustin Lazarovici -- Chapter 40: Causal Probabilities in GRW Quantum Mechanics; Tomasz Placek -- Chapter 41: Physics, Metaphysics and Mathematics; Dennis Dieks -- TEAM E: HISTORY OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE -- Chapter 42: Where Would We Be without Counterfactuals? Huw Price -- Chapter 43: Pragmatism and European Philosophy: William James and the French-Italian Connection; Massimo Ferrari -- Chapter 44: European Pragmatism? Further Thoughts on the German and Austrian Reception of American Pragmatism; Thomas Uebel -- Chapter 45: New Prospects for Pragmatism: Ramsey’s Constructivism; Maria Carla Galavotti -- Chapter 46: Critical Realism in Perspective – Remarks on a Neglected Current in Neo-Kantian Epistemology; Matthias Neuber -- Chapter 47: Realism without Mirrors; Henrik Rydenfelt -- Chapter 48: The Continuing Relevance of 19th-Century Philosophy of Psychology: Brentano and the Autonomy of Psychological Methods; Uljana Feest -- Chapter 49: On the Logical Positivists’ Philosophy of Psychology: Laying a Legend to Rest; Sean Crawford -- Chapter 50: Epistemology Historicized: The French Tradition; Anastasios Brenner -- Chapter 51: Commentary on Brenner’s “Epistemology Historicised”; Cristina Chimisso -- Chapter 52: History and Philosophy of Science: Between Description and Construction; Friedrich Stadler.
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