The Present Situation in the Philosophy of Science
This consideration of general philosophical questions in science is married to a strong tradition of engaging naturalistically with the particular philosophical issues in individual sciences wherethere exists a prerogative of being closely schooled in the relevant scientific theory and research cont...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2010, 2010
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2010 |
| Series: | The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- On Various Senses of “Conventional” and Their Interrelation in the Philosophy of Physics: Simultaneity as a Case Study
- Determinism and Chance from a Humean Perspective
- What Remains of Probability?
- Humean Perspectives on Structural Realism
- The Characterisation of Structure: Definition versus Axiomatisation
- History of the Philosophy of Science
- Some Remarks on Current History of Analytical Philosophy of Science
- History of Philosophy of Science as Philosophy of Science by Other Means?
- Aspects of Current History of Philosophy of Science in the French Tradition
- Reflections on Chimisso: French Philosophy of Science and the Historical Method
- Aspects of Current History of 19TH Century Philosophy of Science
- Well, and Pragmatism?
- Formal Methods
- Formal and Empirical Methods in Philosophy of Science
- The Bane of Two Truths
- Formal Methods in the Philosophy of Natural Science
- The Problem of Constrained Judgment Aggregation
- Aggregation Problems and Models: What Comes First?
- Philosophy of the Natural and Life Sciences
- Life in a Physical World: The Place of the Life Sciences
- Comments on Marcel Weber’s “Life in a Physical World: The Place of the Life Sciences”
- How Special are the Life Sciences? A View from the Natural Kinds Debate
- The Epistemology-Only Approach to NaturalKinds: A Reply to Thomas Reydon
- Reductionism in Biology: An Example of Biochemistry
- Reductionist and Antireductionist Stances in the Health Sciences
- Philosophy of the Cultural and Social Sciences
- Trends and Problems in Philosophy of Social and Cultural Sciences: A European Perspective
- State of the Art A Commentary on Wenceslao J. Gonzalez’ Contribution, “Trends and Problems in Philosophy of Social and Cultural Sciences: A European Perspective”
- Scientific Realism, the New Mechanical Philosophers, and the Friends of Modelling
- Is Naturalism the Unsurpassable Philosophy for the Sciences of Man in the 21st Century?
- What Does it Mean to Be a Naturalist in the Human and Social Sciences?
- Philosophy of the Physical Sciences
- Reichenbach and the Conventionality of Distant Simultaneity in Perspective