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The Role of Justification in the Ordinary Concept of Scientific Progress
concept of progress aim of science justification scientific knowledge scientific progress true belief
2016/6/15
Alexander Bird and Darrell Rowbottom have argued for two competing accounts of the concept of scientific progress. For Bird, progress consists in the accumulation of scientific knowledge. For Rowbotto...
The Epistemic Goal of a Concept: Accounting for the Rationality of Semantic Change and Variation
concepts conceptual change gene concept epistemic goals semantic variation
2009/6/24
The discussion presents a framework of concepts that is intended to account for the rationality of semantic change and variation, suggesting that each scientific concept consists of three components o...
When monophyly is not enough: Exclusivity as the key to defining a phylogenetic species concept
genealogical exclusivity monophyly phylogenetic species concept
2009/4/22
A natural starting place for developing a phylogenetic species concept is to examine monophyletic groups of organisms. Proponents of "the" Phylogenetic Species Concept fall into one of two camps. The ...
What concept of disease should politicians use? Norman Daniels and the unjustifiable appeal of naturalistic analyses of health
Norman Daniels Christopher Boorse normal functioning bio-statistical theory of health
2009/4/8
Norman Daniels argues that health is important for justice because it affects the distribution of opportunities. He claims that a just society should guarantee fair opportunities by promoting and rest...
There has been little serious work to integrate the constructionist approach and the cognitive approach in the domain of race, although many researchers have paid lip service to this project. We belie...
Synthesizing Activities and Interactions in the Concept of a Mechanism
activity causation explanation invariance interaction
2008/4/21
Stuart Glennan, and the team of Peter Machamer, Lindley Darden and Carl Craver have recently provided two accounts of the concept of a mechanism. The main difference between these two versions rests o...
The aim of this paper is not only to deal with the concept of infinity, but also to develop some considerations about the epistemological status of cosmology. These problems are connected because from...
The Implicit Definition of the Set-Concept
set-concept semantic deflationism implicit definition
2008/4/21
Once Hilbert asserted that the axioms of a theory `dene' the primitive concepts
of its language `implicitly'. Thus when someone inquires about the meaning of
the set-concept, the standard response ...
The Role a Concept Plays in Science - The Case of Homology
concepts conceptual change homology
2008/4/21
The present paper gives a philosophical analysis of the conceptual variation in the homology concept. It is argued that different homology concepts are used in evolutionary and comparative biology, in...
The proposal that the concept of innateness expresses a ‘folk biological’ theory of the ‘inner natures’ of organisms was tested by examining the response of biologically naive subjects to a series of ...
Complex Systems from the Perspective of Category Theory: I. Functioning of the Adjunction Concept
Complex Systems Information Structures Localization Systems
2008/4/10
We develop a category theoretical framework for the comprehension of the information structure associated with a complex system, in terms of families of partial or local information carriers. The fram...
The need for an explicit and exact definition of a planet has arise out of the growing rate of discovery of Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) with physical and orbital properties comparable with those of...
Can Constructive Empiricism Adopt the Concept of Observabililty?
constructive empiricism observability
2008/4/10
Several arguments (due to Friedman, Kukla, Foss, Musgrave and Creath) to the effect that the distinction between observables and unobservables cannot be drawn coherently within the confines of Constru...
Stephen Kellert (1993) has argued that Laplacean determinism in classical physics is actually a layered concept, where various properties or layers composing this form of determinism can be peeled awa...
Analyzing an aspect of the inaugural lectures of the Paris Museum of Natural History: An appropriate concept of representation.
social epistemology representation inaugural lecture
2008/4/10
This paper presents part of a scientific study focused on the social aspects of research and its impact on the process of constructing knowledge. For this, we use a corpus of hitherto unexploited text...