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Review of William L.Harper,Isaac Newton's Scientific Method
Newton scientific method gravity Principia
2016/6/15
The title and dust jacket portrait of Newton eliciting the celebrated phenomenon of colors may lead one to think this is a comprehensive work on Newton’s scientific method,including his experimental w...
What is Scientific Progress?Lessons from Scientific Practice
aim of science Alexander Bird Darrell Rowbottom scientific knowledge scientific practice scientific progress
2016/6/15
Alexander Bird argues for an epistemic account of scientific progress, whereas Darrell Rowbottom argues for a semantic account. Both appeal to intuitions about hypothetical cases in support of their a...
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...
Did Perrin's experiments convert Poincaré to Scientific Realism?
Atomism Fundamentalism Henri Poincare Scientific Realism Structural Realism
2016/6/13
In this paper I argue that Poincaré’s acceptance of the atom does not indicate a shift from instrumentalism to scientific realism. I examine the implications of Poincaré’s acceptance of the existence ...
Novel Confirmation and the Underdetermination of Scientific Theory Building
novel confirmation predictivism Bayesianism underdetermiation
2016/6/12
The extra value of novel confirmation over accommodation is explained based on an analysis of the underdetermination of scientific theory building. Novel confirmation can provide information on the nu...
Reflexive,Symmetric and Transitive Scientific Representations
Reflexive Symmetric Transitive Scientific
2016/5/31
Theories of scientific representation, following Chakravartty's categorization, are divided into two groups. Whereas cognitive-functional views emphasize agents' intentions, informational theories str...
The notion of (computational) template has recently been discussed in relation to cross-disciplinary transfer of modeling efforts and in relation to the representational content of models. We further ...
Epistemic and Methodological Iteration in Scientific Research
iteration discovery exploratory experimentation error anomaly nanotechnology
2016/5/30
A number of scholars have recently drawn attention to the importance of iteration in scientific research. This paper builds on these previous discussions by drawing a distinction between epistemic and...
Scientific Representations as Limiting Cases
scientific representation idealization abstraction scientific models
2016/5/30
In this essay, I shall show that the so-called inferential (Suárez 2003 and 2004) and interpretational (Contessa 2007) accounts of scientific representation are respectively unsatisfactory and too wea...
To Teach Scientific Reproducibility, Start Young （图）
Teach Scientific Reproducibility Start Young
2014/3/20
Durham, NC - The ability to duplicate an experiment and its results is a central tenet of the scientific method, but recent research has shown an alarming number of peer-reviewed papers are irreproduc...
This paper investigates the working-method of three important philosophers of explanation: Carl Hempel, Philip Kitcher and Wesley Salmon. We argue that they do three things: (i) construct an explicati...
Scientific Explanation and Scientific Structuralism
structural explanation quantum mechanics model
2011/9/7
In this paper we argue that quantum mechanics provides a genuine kind of structural explanations of quantum phenomena. Since structural explanations only rely on the formal properties of the theory, t...
Scientific Realism, the Galilean Strategy, and Representation
Scientific Realism Representation Models Inference Instrumentalism Pragmatism Philip Kitcher
2011/9/8
This paper critically reviews Philip Kitcher’s most recent epistemology of science, real realism. I argue that this view is unstable under different understandings of the term “representation”, and th...
The projection problem and the symmetries of physics: On the possibility of the scientific realist case
The projection problem symmetries physics
2009/9/16
Dr Harvey Fields, of Czech origin, trained in physics in the US and published several papers on plasma physics in the 1960s. In the late 1970s, he obtained a PhD in history and philosophy of science a...
Collaboration, toward an integrative philosophy of scientific practice
collaboration stem cell biology experiment social epistemology
2009/9/16
Philosophical understanding of experimental scientific practice is impeded by disciplinary differences, notably that between philosophy and sociology of science. Severing the two limits the stock of p...