Current Debates in Philosophy of Science In Honor of Roberto Torretti
This volume collects previously unpublished contributions to the philosophy of science. What brings them together is a twofold goal: first and foremost, celebrating the name of Roberto Torretti, whose works in this and other areas have had –and continue to have– a significant impact on the internati...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
| Series: | Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Editor’s Introduction: Celebrating Roberto Torretti (Cristián Soto)
- 2. Roberto Torretti’s Philosophy of Science (Cristián Soto)
- 3. Du Châtelet on Absolute and Relative Motion (Katherine Brading and Qiu Lin)
- 4. Effective Field Theories: A Case Study for Torretti’s Perspective on Kantian Objectivity (Thomas Ryckman)
- 5. A Kantian-Rooted Pluralist Realism for Science (Olimpia Lombardi)
- 6. Mathematical Fictionalism Revisited (Otávio Bueno)
- 7. Functionalism as a Species of Reduction (Jeremy Butterfield and Henrique Gomes)
- 8. Intertheoretic Reduction in Physics beyond the Nagelian Model (Patricia Palacios)
- 9. Inductive Inferences on Galactic Redshift, Understood Materially (John D. Norton)
- 10. When Does a Boltzmannian Equilibrium Exist? (Charlotte Werndl and Roman Frigg)
- 11. Boltzmannian Non-Equilibrium and Local Variables (Roman Frigg and Charlotte Werndl)
- 12. Scientific Understanding in Astronomical Modelsfrom Eudoxus to Kepler (Pablo Acuña)
- 13. Reinterpreting Crucial Experiments (Alejandro Cassini)
- 14. Non-Reflexive Logics and Their Metaphysics. A Critical Appraisal (Jonas R. B. Arenhart)
- 15. Typicality of Dynamics and Laws of Nature (Aldo Filomeno)
- 16. The Case of Phonons: Explanatory or Ontological Priority (Hernán Lucas Accorinti, Sebastian Fortin, Manuel Herrera, and Jesús Jaimes Appendix: Publications by Roberto Torretti)