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On the Inherent Incompleteness of Scientific Theories
Scientific Theories Inherent Incompleteness
2008/4/22
We examine the question of whether scientific theories can ever be complete. For two closely related reasons, we will argue that they cannot. The first reason is the inability to determine what are "v...
Non-Empirical Requirements Scientific Theories Must Satisfy: Simplicity, Unification, Explanation, Beauty
Simplicity Unification Eplanation ymmetry
2008/4/22
A scientific theory, in order to be accepted as a part of theoretical scientific knowledge, must satisfy both empirical and non-empirical requirements, the latter having to do with simplicity, unity, ...
Qualitative Scientific Modeling and Loop Analysis
models and idealization qualitative analysis
2008/4/22
Loop analysis is a method of qualitative modeling anticipated by Sewall Wright and systematically developed by Richard Levins. In Levins’ (1966) distinctions between modeling strategies, loop analysis...
This paper is about structuralism as a form of reconstructing theories, associated with the work Sneed, Balzar and Moulines among others, and not about "structuralism" is any of its other manifold sen...
SCIENTIFIC REALISM IN THE AGE OF STRING THEORY
realism underdetermination string theory structural realism
2008/4/22
String theory currently is the only viable candidate for a unified description of all known natural forces. This article tries to demonstrate that the fundamental structural and methodological differe...
Scientific Representation: Against Similarity and Isomorphism
representation idealization models realism structuralism
2008/4/22
I argue against theories that attempt to reduce scientific representation to similarity or isomorphism. These reductive theories aim to radically naturalise the notion of representation, since they tr...
Scientific Theories, Models, and the Semantic Approach
semantic view Skolem's paradox modal interpretation
2008/4/22
According to the semantic view, a theory is characterized by a class of models. In this paper, we examine critically some of the assumptions that underlie this approach. First, we recall that models a...
Scientific Understanding and Synthetic Design
organic chemistry application technology synthesis
2008/4/22
One of the indisputable signs of the progress made in organic chemistry over the last two hundred years is the increased ability of chemists to manipulate, control and design chemical reactions. The t...
Science and SpiritualityRelations Between Two Modes of Cognition: Rational-Scientific and Intuitive-SpiritualÃ
Cognition systems science rationality
2008/4/22
Considerable evidence indicates that the human cognitive system comprises two subsystems, one
rational-scientific and the other intuitive-spiritual. Differences as well as harmonies and interactions
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In this paper I argue that physics makes metaphysical presuppositions concerning the physical comprehensibility, the dynamic unity, of the universe. I argue that rigour requires that these metaphysica...
Scientific Realism and the God's Eye Point of View
God's eye point of view internal realism Hilary Putnam
2008/4/22
According to scientific realism, the aim of science is to discover the truth about both observable and unobservable aspects of the mind-independent, objective reality, which we inhabit. It has been ob...
The paper considers the two main challenges to scientific realism, stemming from confirmation holism and the underdetermination thesis as well as from semantic holism and the incommensurability thesis...
Many of those actively involved in the physical sciences adopt a reductionist point of view, in which all aspects of the world are ultimately controlled by physical laws that are expressed in terms of...
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...
The Role of Cognitive Values in the Shaping of Scientific Rationality
Cognitive Values Scientific Rationality
2008/4/21
It is not so long ago that philosophers and scientists thought of science as an objective and value-free enterprise. But since the heyday of positivism, it has become obvious that values, norms, and s...