Recent Developments in the Philosophy of Science: EPSA13 Helsinki - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3319374230 ISBN 13 : 9783319374239

Editeur : Springer, 2016

Synopsis

Preface.- Part I. Truth and Semantics.- Chapter 1. Coherence and (Likeness to) Truth; Michael Schippers.- Chapter 2. A Verisimilitudinarian Rebuttal of a Recent Attack Against Realism; Luca Tambolo.- Chapter 3. Realistic Claims in Logical Empiricism; Matthias Neuber.- Chapter 4. Patchworks of Laws and Partial Structures; Holger Andreas.- Part II. Social Epistemology, Rational Choice Theory and Public Policy.- Chapter 5. Social Epistemology, Debate Dynamics, and Truth Approximation; Gustavo Cevolani.- Chapter 6. Wise Crowds, Clever Meta-Inductivists; Paul Thorn.- Chapter 7. Is the Equal-Weight View Really Supported by Positive Crowd Effects?; Christian Feldbacher.- Chapter 8. Why the Realist-Instrumentalist Debate About Rational Choice Rests On A Mistake; Christine Tiefensee.- Chapter 9. Funding Science By Lottery; Shahar Avin.- Part III. Values in Science.- Chapter 10. Researchers Building Nations: Under What Conditions Can Overtly Political Research Be & Objective?; Inkeri Koskinen.- Chapter 11. Against the Agnosticism-Argument for Value-Freedom; Anke Bueter.- Part IV. Causality.- Chapter 12. Learning About Constitutive Relations; Lena Kaestner.- Chapter 13. Reconstituting Phenomena; Maria Kronfelder.- Chapter 14. Manipulating Spins: Causality and Decoherence; Fernanda Samaniego.- Part V. Philosophy of Physics and Chemistry.- Chapter 15. How Fundamental Physics Represents Causality; Andreas Bartels and Daniel Wohlfarth.- Chapter 16. Local Causality and Complete Specification: A Reply to Seevinck and Uffink; Gábor Hofer-Szabó.- Chapter 17. Pragmatists and Purists on CPT Invariance in Relativistic Quantum Field Theories; Jonathan Bain.-

Chapter 18. Explanation in Quantum Chemistry; Carsten Seck.- Chapter 19. Are Chemical Kinds Natural Kinds?; Robin Hendry.- Part VI. Induction, Probability and Chaos.- Chapter 20. Why Bertrand's Paradox Is Not Paradoxical But Is Felt So; Zalan Gyenis and Miklos Redei.- Chapter 21. Revisiting Smale's Fourteenth Problem to Discover Two Definitions of Chaos; Lena Zuchowski.- Chapter 22. Rudolf Carnap: Philosophy of Science as Engineering Explications; Christopher French.- Chapter 23. Robustness, Diversity of Evidence, and Probabilistic Independence; Jonah Schupbach.-Part VII. Fiction, Representation and Explanation.- Chapter 24. Why does Water Boil? Fictions in Scientific Explanation; Sorin Bangu.- Chapter 25. Scientific Representation, Denotation, and Fictional Entities; Mauricio Suárez.- Part VIII. Philosophy of the Life Sciences and of Psychology.- Chapter 26. Non Inferiority Drug Trials and the Trade-Offs in RCTs; Cecilia Nardini.- Chapter 27. Against Sex and Gender Dualism in Gender-Specific Medicine; Maria Christina Amoretti and Nicla Vassalo.- Chapter 28. Biological Essentialism Concerning the Species Category; Edit Talpsepp.- Chapter 29. Two Concepts of Emotional Expression; Trip Glazer.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3319374230
• ISBN 13: 9783319374239
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 404
• Éditeur: Mäki Uskali, Votsis Ioannis, Ruphy Stéphanie, Schurz Gerhard
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