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How Science is applied in Technology: Explaining Basic Sciences in the Engineering Sciences
models engineering sciences technical sciences
2008/4/14
The issue of this oral presentation is “How Science is applied in Technology”; more specifically, how science is used in developing knowledge of phenomena and processes that occur in technological dev...
History of Science and the Material Theory of Induction:Einstein’s Quanta, Mercury’s Perihelion
the Material Theory of Induction History of Science
2008/4/14
The use of the material theory of induction to vindicate a scientist’s claims of evidential warrant is illustrated with the cases of Einstein’s thermodynamic argument for light quanta of 1905 and his ...
Hidden entities and experimental practice: towards a two-way traffic between history and philosophy of science
experimentation observable-unobservable distinction
2008/4/14
In this paper I investigate the prospects of integrated history and philosophy of science, by examining how philosophical issues concerning experimental practice and scientific realism can enrich the ...
Although Galileo’s struggle to mathematize the study of nature is well known and oft discussed, less discussed is the form this struggle takes in relation to Galileo’s first new science, the science o...
Emergence in exact natural science
Intertheoretical relations Higher-level theories Singular asymptotic expansions
2008/4/11
The context of an operational description is given by the distinction between what we consider as relevant and what as irrelevant for a particular experiment or observation. A rigorous description of ...
This paper contrasts the approach Thomas Edison used when dealing with his claim to have discovered a new force of nature, etheric force, to the approach he used to create successful inventions. It ar...
Creativity and the New Structure of Science
Organisation of science complexity chaos phase transition
2008/4/11
A qualitatively new, much more liberal and efficient organisation of science is proposed and justified in connection with emerging international science structures, such as the European Research Counc...
Cosmology, Particles, and the Unity of Science
Cosmology Particle Physics Quantum Field Theory
2008/4/10
During the last three decades, there has been a growing
realization among physicists and cosmologists that the relation between particle physics and cosmology may constitute yet another successful ex...
Consensus, Dissensus, and Democracy: What is at Stake in Feminist Science Studies?
gender democracy consensus dissensus
2008/4/10
If feminists argue for the irreducibility of the social dimensions of science, then they ought to embrace the idea that feminist and non-feminist scientists are not in collaboration, but in fact defen...
Common-Sense Realism and the Unimaginable Otherness of Science
Unimaginable Otherness of Science Common-Sense Realism
2008/4/10
Bas van Fraassen endorses both common-sense realism – the view, roughly, that the ordinary macroscopic objects that we take to exist actually do exist – and constructive empiricism – the view, roughly...
It is often assumed that chemistry was a typical positivistic science as long as chemists used atomic and molecular models as mere fictions and denied any concern with their real existence. Even when ...
Causation as Folk Science
Folk Science Causation
2008/4/10
I deny that the world is fundamentally causal, deriving the skepticism on non-Humean grounds from our enduring failures to find a contingent, universal principle of causality that holds true of our sc...
I deny that the world is fundamentally causal, deriving the skepticism on non-Humean grounds from our enduring failures to find a contingent, universal principle of causality that holds true of our sc...
Can science advance effectively through philosophical criticism and reflection?
Absolute space Inertial frames Length contraction
2008/4/10
Prompted by Hasok Chang’s conception of the history and philosophy of science (HPS) as the continuation of science by other means, I examine the possibility of obtaining scientific knowledge through p...
Jaegwon Kim has argued that if psychological kinds are multiply realizable then no single psychological theory can describe regularities ranging over psychological states. Instead, psychology must be ...