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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 ...
Jaap van Brakel, Philosophy of Chemistry. Between the Manifest and the Scientific Image, Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2000, xvi +246 pp. (ISBN 90-5867-063-5)
Philosophy of Chemistry Manifest
2008/4/3
This is a very welcome and indeed unique book. For the first time a full scale, serious study has been attempted of chemistry as a distinctive and irreducible scientific discipline. The value of a boo...
‘Pathological Science’ is not Scientific Misconduct (nor is it pathological)
pathological science scientific misconduct
2008/4/3
‘Pathological’ science implies scientific misconduct: it should not happen and the scientists concerned ought to know better. However, there are no clear and generally agreed definitions of pathologic...
The Molecular Aesthetics of Disease The Relationship of AIDS to the Scientific Imagination
HIV protease aesthetic functionalism
2008/4/3
This paper shows how the simulated molecular forms of HIV protease allow scientists to immerse themselves in the study of AIDS while simultaneously serving their aesthetic needs. To unravel the aesthe...
Davis Baird: Thing Knowledge: A Philosophy of Scientific Instruments, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2004, xxi + 273 pp. [ISBN 0-520-23249-6]
Thing Knowledge Philosophy
2008/4/3
It is not news to observe that philosophy of science, as a field, has been obsessed with theory throughout the 20th century. While it is true that we have recently seen something called the New Experi...
Bruce T. Moran, Distilling Knowledge. Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005, 210 pp. [ISBN 0-674-01495-2]
Chemistry Vladimír Karpenko
2008/4/3
The chemist is a horrible, morally corrupt person, and there does not seem to be any single term awful enough to describe him. At least that was Libavius’ opinion of those involved in chemical experim...
On the Interplay of the Cognitive and the Social in Scientific Practices
cognitive values social values transgenics theory acceptance
2008/4/1
I consider the questions, central to recent disagreements between Longino and Kitcher: Is it constitutive of making judgments of the cognitive acceptability of theories that they be made under certain...
CONTEMPORARY NATIVISM, SCIENTIFIC TEXTURE, AND THE MORAL LIMITS OF FREE INQUIRY
SCIENTIFIC TEXTURE CONTEMPORARY NATIVISM
2008/4/1
Some thinkers distrust Darwinist explorations of complex human behaviors, particularly investigations into possible differences in valued skills between genders, races or classes. Such projects, it is...
Empirical Success or Explanatory Success: What does Current Scientific Realism Need to Explain?
Anti-Realist Scientific Realism
2008/4/1
Against the well-known objection that in the history of science there are many theories that are successful but false, Psillos offers a three-pronged defense of scientific realism as the best explanat...
Confirming Idealized Theories and Scientific Realism
induction confirmation idealization approximation
2008/4/1
Two types of idealization in theory construction are distinguished, and the distinction is used to give a critique of Ron Laymon's account of confirming idealized theories and his argument for scienti...
C. S. Peirce's psychological analysis of belief, doubt, and inquiry provides insights into the nature of scientific knowledge. These in turn can be used to construct an account of scientific knowledge...
What is science? Methodological pitfalls underlying the empirical exploration of scientific knowledge
scientific knowledge science
2008/3/31
The validity of 3 premises, set as foundational pillars of modern sociological approach to science, is contested, namely: i/ the postulate, stating that science is devoid of whatever generis specifica...