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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
Scientific Progress
What constitutes cognitive scientific progress? This Element begins with an extensive survey of the contemporary debate on how to answer this question. It provides a blow-by-blow …
Scientific Representation
This Element presents a philosophical exploration of the notion of scientific representation. It does so by focussing on an important class of scientific representations, namely …