Recent Developments in the Philosophy of Science: EPSA13 Helsinki

Recent Developments in the Philosophy of Science: EPSA13 Helsinki edited by Uskali Mäki, Ioannis Votsis, Stéphanie Ruphy, Gerhard Schurz.

This volume showcases the best of recent research in the philosophy of science. A compilation of papers presented at the EPSA 13, it explores a broad distribution of topics such as causation, truthlikeness, scientific representation, gender-specific medicine,  laws of nature, science funding and the...

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Other Authors: Mäki, Uskali (Editor), Votsis, Ioannis (Editor), Ruphy, Stéphanie (Editor), Schurz, Gerhard (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Series:European Studies in Philosophy of Science, 1
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Subjects:
Philosophy and science.
Physics.
Mathematical logic.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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