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Historical Context and Philosophy of Science: Reply to Peter Simons' 'Coincidence and Kite-Flying'
Wittgenstein physical similarity physically similar systems Tractatus
2009/4/20
This essay responds to a review of my book Wittgenstein Flies A Kite: A Story of Models of Wings and Models of the World by Peter Simons that appears in the March 2009 issue of the journal Metascience...
Similarity and Dimensional Analysis(forthcoming entry in Handbook of Philosophy of Science,Elsevier)
Similarity Models Physical Similarity Dimensions Dimensionless
2009/4/17
The topic of this Handbook entry is the relationship between similarity and dimensional analysis, and some of the philosophical issues involved in understanding and making use of that relationship. Di...
Why Philosophy? Why Now? Engineering Responds to the Crisis of a Creative Era
philosophy-of-engineering Kuhn philosophy-of-science
2011/9/7
For the inaugural Workshop on Philosophy & Engineering (WPE-2007), this abstract asks why engineers are turning now to philosophy. Upon reflection, philosophy and engineering are very different occupa...
International Conference of Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences
Philosophy Cognitive Sciences
2009/2/5
Philosophy of Science in the Public Interest: Useful Knowledge and the Common Good
Common Good Public Interest Logical Empiricism Useful Knowledge John Dewey Disinterested Objectivity
2011/9/8
The standard of disinterested objectivity embedded within the US Data Quality Act (2001) has been used by corporate and political interests as a way to limit the dissemination of scientific research r...
Philosophy of Science in the Public Interest: Useful Knowledge and the Common Good
Common Good Public Interest Data Quality Act Francis Bacon Logical Empiricism Useful Knowledge John Dewey Disinterested
2011/9/8
The standard of disinterested objectivity embedded within the US Data Quality Act (2001) has been used by corporate and political interests as a way to limit the dissemination of scientific research r...
THE PHILOSOPHY AND PRACTICALITY OF MODELING INVOLVING COMPLEX SYSTEMS
PHILOSOPHY PRACTICALITY
2008/10/28
In this paper we outline the philosophy of the models and modeling perspectives of learning. The paper is based on the Taoist premise that the true structure of things is irreducible to formal stateme...
The Mechanical Philosophy 1660 - 1675
mechanical philosophy, astronomy, Kepler, Wallis, Principia
2011/9/7
We study the state of mechanics and astronomy between 1660 and 1675 in order to understand the extent of the commitment to the mechanical philosophy of Kepler prior to the writing of Principia.
Oxford University Research Group on the Philosophy of Information
Oxford University Research Group Philosophy of Information
2008/7/7
Welcome to the home page of the IEG, the interdepartmental research group on the philosophy of information (PI) at Oxford University.
The IEG is the result of a collaboration between OUCL (the Oxf...
This is the table of contents and first chapter of Physics Meets Philosophy at the Planck Scale (Cambridge University Press, 2001), edited by Craig Callender and Nick Huggett. The chapter discusses th...
Spacetime, Structural Realism, and the Substantival/Relational Debate: An Ontological Investigation from the Perspective of Structural Realism in the Philosophy of Mathematics
spacetime structural realism substantivalism relationism
2008/4/21
This essay explores structural realist interpretation of spacetime with special emphasis on the close interrelationship between, on the one hand, ontological debates in spacetime structural realism an...
The Dynamics of Time and Timelessness:Philosophy, Physics and Prospects for our Life
ontology physics biology consciousness
2008/4/21
We point out that physical behavior is directed by the action principle (or Hamilton principle), while biological behavior is governed
by the Bauer-principle which is directed against the action prin...
Philosophical discussion of molecular and developmental biology began in the late 1960s with the use of genetics as a test case for models of theory reduction. With this exception, the theory of natur...
The Philosophy of Simulation: Hot New Issues or Same Old Stew?
Computer simulation model modelling experiment epistemology of science
2008/4/21
Computer simulations are an exciting tool that plays important roles in many scientific disciplines. This has attracted the attention of a number of philosophers of science. The main tenor in this lit...
The Need for a Revolution in the Philosophy of Science
philosophy of science scientific method scientific rationality
2008/4/21
There is a need to bring about a revolution in the philosophy of science, interpreted to be both the academic discipline, and the official view of the aims and methods of science upheld by the scienti...