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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
...
In this paper (which is, at best, a work in progress), I discuss different modes of scientific explanation
identified by philosophers
(Hempel, Salmon, Kitcher, Friedman, Hughes)
and
examine how w...
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...
This paper reviews the situation with respect to the referential approach to the problem of semantic incommensurability. It argues that the thesis of semantic incommensurability does not pose a signif...
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...
Subjective Probabilities as Basis for Scientific Reasoning?
Scientific Reasoning Subjective Probabilities
2008/4/21
Bayesianism is the position that scientific reasoning is probabilistic and that probabilities are adequately interpreted as an agent’s actual subjective degrees of belief, measured by her betting beha...
The Last Scientific Revolution
dynamic complexity chaos multivalued dynamics probabilistic dynamical fractal
2008/4/21
Critically growing problems of fundamental science organisation and content are analysed with examples from physics and emerging interdisciplinary fields. Their origin is specified and new science str...
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...
The Scientific Philosophy and Philosophy of Science (Part 1)
epistemological errors physical terms
2008/4/21
It is shown that the physical terms have links with philosophical categories. If scientists ignore these ties then epistemological errors arise. The examples of such errors are considered.
The Scientific Philosophy and Philosophy of Science (Part 2)
epistemology scientific true criteria of true
2008/4/21
The main problem of epistemology has been considered. It is a problem of scientific true. It is shown that epistemology plays a criteria role for knowledge of true. The criteria of scientific true are...