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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 ...
Material Theory of Induction and Scientific Realism
Scientific realism Material induction Norton
2008/4/15
John Norton has advanced a general view of induction---`Material Theory of Induction'---that renders ampliative reasoning in a deep sense local. This paper is a sympathetic appraisal of this view, app...
How to Understand Scientific Justification? Practicing &HPS
Scientific Justification Practicing
2008/4/14
The published HPS paper gives us only an insufficient idea of the project of integrating history and philosophy of science. To understand how the integration may work and to make it even more rewardin...
The thought that there is a way to reconcile empiricism with a realist stance towards scientific theories, avoiding instrumentalism and without fearing that this will lead straight to metaphysics, see...
Imaginary-Constitutives. The Ontology of Scientific Models.
models semantic view models-as-mediators analogies
2008/4/14
Hitherto, there have been two approaches towards models in the philosophy of science. One could be called “formalistic” and the other one “methodological”. The first coincides with the so-called seman...
Gedankenexperiment und Erklärung /Thought Experiment and Scientific Explanation
Erklä rung Gedankenexperiment
2008/4/14
This essay evaluates the epistemic potential of the scientific method of 'thought experiments', i.e. how far one can progress in science by just thinking about experimental situations without doing re...
Emil Rupp, Albert Einstein and the canal ray experiments on wave-particle duality: Scientific fraud and theoretical bias
Emil Rupp Albert Einstein wave-particle duality
2008/4/11
In 1926 Emil Rupp published a number of papers on the interference properties of light emitted by canal ray sources. These articles, particularly one paper that came into being in close collaboration ...
Disentangling Scientific Representation
scientific models representation surrogative reasoning
2008/4/11
The main aim of this paper is to disentangle three senses in which we can say that a model represents a system—denotation epistemic representation, and successful epistemic representation--and to indi...
Complementarity and Scientific Rationality
Bohr Copenhagen Complementarity quantum mechanics
2008/4/10
Bohr's interpretation of quantum mechanics has been criticized as incoherent and opportunistic, and based on doubtful philosophical premises. If so Bohr's influence, in the pre-war period of 1927-1939...
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...
An Inferential Conception of Scientific Representation
Representation Models Idealization Realism
2008/4/10
This paper defends a deflationary conception of scientific representation. It minimally characterises representation by means of two necessary conditions: its essential intentionality and its capacity...
An Application of Information Theory to the Problem of the Scientific Experiment
Information theory ergodic theory induction
2008/4/10
There are two basic approaches to the problem of induction: the empirical one, which deems that the possibility of induction depends on how the world was made (and how it works) and the logical one, w...
A minimal construal of scientific structuralism
scientific structuralism A minimal construal
2008/4/9
The focus of this paper is the recent revival of interest in structuralist approaches to science and, in particular, the structural realist position in philosophy of science . The challenge facing sci...
A Contextual Approach to Scientific Understanding
Understanding explanation causation causality unification
2008/4/9
Achieving understanding of nature is one of the aims of science. In this paper we offer an analysis of the nature of scientific understanding that accords with actual scientific practice and accommod...
Kant's Critique of Judgment and the Scientific Investigation of Matter
Kant judgment purposiveness experimentation
2008/4/7
Kant's theory of judgment establishes the conceptual framework for understanding the subtle relationships between the experimental scientist, the modern instrument, and nature's atomic particles. The ...