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Does Structural Realism Provide the Best Explanation of the Predictive Success of Science?
Structural Realism Phlogiston Chemistry Scientific realism
2016/5/30
I examine Carrier’s and Ladyman’s structural realist (‘SR’) explanation of the predictive success of phlogiston chemistry. On their account, it succeeds because phlogiston chemists grasped that there ...
Poincare's impact on 20th century philosophy of science
Poincare underdetermination equivalent descriptions,implicit definition incommensurability
2016/5/27
Poincaré’s conventionalism has thoroughly transformed both the philosophy of science and the philosophy of mathematics. Not only proponents of conventionalism, such as the logical positivists, were in...
What can cognitive science tell us about scientific revolutions?
Kuhn cognitive science incommensurability analogy naturalism ciencia cognitiva inconmensurabilidad analogía naturalismo
2016/5/27
Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions is notable for the readiness with which it drew on the results of cognitive psychology. These naturalistic elements were not well received and Kuhn did not s...
Intelligent Design and the Nature of Science:Philosophical and Pedagogical Points
nature of science evolutionary biology intelligent design scientific practice values
2016/5/27
This chapter offers a critique of intelligent design arguments against evolution and a philosophical discussion of the nature of science, drawing several lessons for the teaching of evolution and for ...
Values in Science beyond Underdetermination and Inductive Risk
values in science science and values underdetermination inductive risk
2016/5/27
The thesis that the practice and evaluation of science requires social value-judgment, that good science is not value-free or value-neutral but value-laden, has been gaining acceptance among philosoph...
From Intersubjectivity to Interinstrumentality:The example of Surface Science
Objectivity Intersubjectivity Harry Collins Interinstrumentamity Surface Science
2016/5/27
My aim is to show how a strategy used in the experimental sciences, which I name “interinstrumentality”, can minimize the role of sociological factors when one tries to understand how the debates abou...
I observe that,as the physics side of the OPERA-anomaly story is apparently unfolding,there can still be motivation for philosophy of science to analyze the six months of madness physicists spent chas...
The Role of Physics in Science Integration
Knowledge Integration Reductionism Emergentism Special Relativity General Relativity Perception Multidimensional geometry Albert Einstein,Smooth Infinitesimal analysis
2015/8/3
Special and General theories of relativity may be considered as the most significant examples of integrative thinking. From these works we see that Albert Einstein attached great importance to how we ...
Review Essay: Dennett’s Sweet Dreams Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness
Dennett Consciousness
2015/8/3
Review Essay: Dennett’s Sweet Dreams Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness.
Artificial Science–a simulation test-bed for studying the social processes of science
simulation science publishing philosophy of science distributed artificial intelligence theorem proving forward chaining agents
2015/7/30
it is likely that there are many different social processes occurring in different parts of science and at different times, and that these processes will impact upon the nature, quality and quantity o...
Incompleteness and the Romance with Science
Philosophy of science completeness incompleteness ontology history of science,philosophy,cognition
2015/7/29
It is argued that qualities of complete/incomplete science theory do not relate to the fertility or diversity or validity of science theory, but correspond with social, behavioral, moral values, and t...
Mapping the translational science policy ‘valley of death’
Science policy Ethics Valley of death Stem cell research
2014/11/17
Translating the knowledge from biomedical science into clinical applications that help patients has been compared to crossing a valley of death because of the many issues that separate the bench from ...
Scientists are now able to use brain imaging to communicate with people previously thought to be in a vegetative state, prompting questions about the very nature of consciousness
Four Species of Reflexivity and History of Economics in Economic Policy Science
Reflexivity, Philosophy and History of Economics, Economics Methodology, Public Policy
2011/9/8
This paper argues that history of economics has a fruitful, underappreciated role to play in the development of economics, especially when understood as a policy science. This goes against the grain o...
Charles Darwin and Sir John F. W. Herschel: Nineteenth-Century Science and its Methodology
Charles Darwin John F. W. Herschel William Whewell vera causa analogy consilience
2011/9/7
In this essay, I review the relationship between Charles Darwin's methodology and the philosophy of science of Sir John F. W. Herschel. Darwin's exposure to Herschel's philosophy was, I argue, signifi...