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Evolutionary Epistemology:Random Change in Science
evolutionary epistemology serendipity history of internal symmetries in particle physics
2016/6/14
cientific thought is generally characterized as methodical and rational. I would like to present here an opposing view which treats science as a non-systematic activity, where serendipity, tinkering a...
An Epistemology of Causal Inference from Experiment
causation experiment Gasparo Berti water barometer vacuum
2016/5/31
The manipulationist account of causation provides a conceptual analysis of cause-effect relationships in terms of hypothetical experiments. It also explains why and how experiments are used for the em...
AN EPISTEMOLOGY FOR THE STUDY OF CONSCIOUSNESS
epistemology consciousness subjectivity intersubjectivity objectivity public private phenomenology psychology physics empirical method repeatability
2015/7/29
This is a prepublication version of the final chapter from the Blackwell Companion to Consciousness. In it I re-examine the basic conditions required for a study of conscious experiences in the light ...
Collective Cognitive Processes around 1930. Edgar Zilsel’s Epistemology of Mass Phenomena
social epistemology statistics probability theory induction irreversibility
2009/9/8
In the first decades of the 20th century politics, economy and the emerging social sciences were not the only realms engaged in understanding social questions and organizing society by means of statis...
EPISTEMOLOGY PLUS VALUES EQUALS CLASSROOM IMAGE OF MATHEMATICS
the impact of values mathematics
2008/10/28
What is the impact of values on the mathematics classroom? In this paper I advance the thesis that an epistemology or philosophy of mathematics combined with a set of values provides the basis for the...
Putting a Bridle on Irrationality: An Appraisal of Van Fraassen’s New Epistemology
epistemology Bayesianism rationality van Fraassen
2008/4/22
Over the last twenty years, Bas van Fraassen has developed a “new epistemology”: an attempt to sail between Bayesianism and traditional epistemology. He calls his own alternative “voluntarism”. A cons...
Social epistemology of scientific inquiry: beyond historical vs. philosophical case studies
social epistemology scientific objectivity
2008/4/22
In this paper, I propose a new way to integrate historical accounts of social interaction in scientific practice with philosophical examination of scientific knowledge. The relation between descriptiv...
Why Gender is a Relevant Factor in the Social Epistemology of Scientific Inquiry
Scientific Inquiry Social Epistemology
2008/4/18
In recent years, feminist philosophy of science has been subjected to criticism. Much of the debate has focused on the implications of the underdetermination thesis for accounts of the role of social ...
Epistemology Quantized: circumstances in which we should come to believe in the Everett interpretation
Quantum Mechanics
2008/4/11
I consider exactly what is involved in a solution to the probability problem of the Everett interpretation, in the light of recent work on applying considerations from decision theory to that problem....
CONSTRUCTING MATHEMATICAL KNOWLEDGE: EPISTEMOLOGY AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
CONSTRUCTING MATHEMATICAL KNOWLEDGE
2008/4/8
This book provides a panorama of complementary and forward looking perspectives on the learning of mathematics and epistemology. It explores constructivist and social theories of learning, and discuss...
In a recent study, I interviewed seventy research mathematicians about their epistemologies. (For more details see, for example, Burton, forthcoming.) I was interested in the process of their coming t...
Some Cautionary Notes on Jean Piaget’s Genetic Epistemology
Cautionary Notes Jean Piaget Genetic Epistemology
2008/4/4
Introduction
“We are an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality–judiciously as you will–we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you...