Hakutulokset: scientific philosophy
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Logical Empiricism as Scientific Philosophy
This Element offers a new account of the philosophical significance of logical empiricism that relies on the past forty years of literature reassessing the project. It argues that …
Scientific Knowledge and the Deep Past
Historical sciences like paleontology and archaeology have uncovered unimagined, remarkable and mysterious worlds in the deep past. How should we understand the success of these …
Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Scientific Reason
This book is an important introduction to the critical interpretation of the work of the major French thinker Michel Foucault. Through comprehensive and detailed analyses of such …
Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind
A study in the philosophy of science, proposing a strong form of the doctrine of scientific realism' and developing its implications for issues in the philosophy of mind.
The Social Dimensions of Scientific Knowledge
This Elements is about the social dimensions of scientific knowledge. The first chapter asks in what ways scientific knowledge is social. The second chapter develops a conception …
Scientific Innovation, Philosophy, and Public Policy: Volume 13, Part 2
Recent and ongoing developments in science and technology - such as the prevention and treatment of disease through genetics and the development of increasingly sophisticated …
Scientific Models and Decision Making
This Element introduces the philosophical literature on models, with an emphasis on normative considerations relevant to models for decision-making. Chapter 1 gives an overview of …
Scientific Essentialism
Scientific Essentialism defends the view that the fundamental laws of nature depend on the essential properties of the things on which they are said to operate, and are therefore …
Modelling Scientific Communities
This Element will overview research using models to understand scientific practice. Models are useful for reasoning about groups and processes that are complicated and distributed …
Bayesianism and Scientific Reasoning
This Element explores the Bayesian approach to the logic and epistemology of scientific reasoning. Section 1 introduces the probability calculus as an appealing generalization of …