✍ Scribed by Maria Carla Galavotti, Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao J. Gonzalez, Stephan Hartmann, Thomas Uebel, Marcel Weber (eds.)
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This volume sheds light on still unexplored issues and raises new questions in the main areas addressed by the philosophy of science. Bringing together selected papers from three main events, the book presents the most advanced scientific results in the field and suggests innovative lines for further investigation. It explores how discussions on several notions of the philosophy of science can help different scientific disciplines in learning from each other. Finally, it focuses on the relationship between Cambridge and Vienna in twentieth century philosophy of science. The areas examined in the book are: formal methods, the philosophy of the natural and life sciences, the cultural and social sciences, the physical sciences and the history of the philosophy of science.
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Things in Possible Experiments: Case-Intensional Logic as a Framework for Tracing Things from Case to Case....Pages 3-14
The Proof Is in the Process: A Preamble for a Philosophy of Computer-Assisted Mathematics....Pages 15-33
The Future Role of Computation in Science and Society....Pages 35-44
In No Categorical Terms: A Sketch for an Alternative Route to a Humean Interpretation of Laws....Pages 45-61
The Undeniable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Special Sciences....Pages 63-73
Comment on “The Undeniable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Special Sciences”....Pages 75-84
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Explanatory Pluralism in Psychiatry: What Are We Pluralists About, and Why?....Pages 87-103
Pluralists About Pluralism? Different Versions of Explanatory Pluralism in Psychiatry....Pages 105-119
Shifting Attention from Theory to Practice in Philosophy of Biology....Pages 121-139
Living Instruments and Theoretical Terms: Xenografts as Measurements in Cancer Research....Pages 141-155
Developmental Explanation....Pages 157-172
What Counts as Causation in Physics and Biology?....Pages 173-189
Challenges to Characterizing the Notion of Causation Across Disciplinary Boundaries: Comment on Faye....Pages 191-201
Just Complexity....Pages 203-219
Confessions of a Complexity Skeptic....Pages 221-233
New Directions in the Philosophy of Biology: A New Taxonomy of Functions....Pages 235-251
Front Matter....Pages 253-253
How Essentialism Properly Understood Might Reconcile Realism and Social Constructivism....Pages 255-265
Social Construction – By Whom?....Pages 267-278
Is Social Constructivism Soluble in Critical Naturalism?....Pages 279-295
Scientific Representation, Reflexivity, and the Possibility of Constructive Realism....Pages 297-312
Front Matter....Pages 253-253
The Limits of Realism in the Philosophy of Social Science....Pages 313-322
The Social Re-Construction of Agency....Pages 323-338
Local Realism: An Analysis of Social Choice Theory....Pages 339-351
Objectivity and Visual Practices in Science and Art....Pages 353-368
Cultural Information: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell....Pages 369-382
Front Matter....Pages 383-383
Introducing QBism....Pages 385-402
A Critic Looks at QBism....Pages 403-416
Elementary Particles and Metaphysics....Pages 417-431
Assessing the Status of the Common Cause Principle....Pages 433-442
A Note on Strong Causal Closedness and Completability of Classical Probability Spaces....Pages 443-451
Artificial Examples of Empirical Equivalence....Pages 453-467
The Measurement Problem Is Your Problem Too....Pages 469-478
Pros and Cons of Physics in Logics....Pages 479-484
How Fundamental Physics Represents Causality....Pages 485-500
Anchoring Causal Connections in Physical Concepts....Pages 501-509
Good Just Isn’t Good Enough: Humean Chances and Boltzmannian Statistical Physics....Pages 511-529
Unsharp Humean Chances in Statistical Physics: A Reply to Beisbart....Pages 531-542
Noncommutative Causality in Algebraic Quantum Field Theory....Pages 543-553
Lost in Translation: A Comment on “Noncommutative Causality in Algebraic Quantum Field Theory”....Pages 555-560
Causal Probabilities in GRW Quantum Mechanics....Pages 561-576
Front Matter....Pages 383-383
Physics, Metaphysics and Mathematics....Pages 577-586
Front Matter....Pages 587-587
Where Would We Be Without Counterfactuals?....Pages 589-607
Pragmatism and European Philosophy: William James and the French-Italian Connection....Pages 609-625
European Pragmatism? Further Thoughts on the German and Austrian Reception of American Pragmatism....Pages 627-643
New Prospects for Pragmatism: Ramsey’s Constructivism....Pages 645-656
Critical Realism in Perspective: Remarks on a Neglected Current in Neo-Kantian Epistemology....Pages 657-673
Realism Without Mirrors....Pages 675-692
The Continuing Relevance of Nineteenth-Century Philosophy of Psychology: Brentano and the Autonomy of Psychological Methods....Pages 693-709
On the Logical Positivists’ Philosophy of Psychology: Laying a Legend to Rest....Pages 711-726
Epistemology Historicized: The French Tradition....Pages 727-736
Commentary on Anastasios Brenner’s “Epistemology Historicized”....Pages 737-746
History and Philosophy of Science: Between Description and Construction....Pages 747-767
Back Matter....Pages 769-773
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