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Non-Empirical Requirements Scientific Theories Must Satisfy: Simplicity, Unification, Explanation, Beauty
Simplicity Unification Eplanation ymmetry
2008/4/22
A scientific theory, in order to be accepted as a part of theoretical scientific knowledge, must satisfy both empirical and non-empirical requirements, the latter having to do with simplicity, unity, ...
Although a strict dichotomy between facts and values is no longer accepted, less attention has been paid to the roles values should play in our acceptance of factual statements, or scientific descript...
Qualitative Scientific Modeling and Loop Analysis
models and idealization qualitative analysis
2008/4/22
Loop analysis is a method of qualitative modeling anticipated by Sewall Wright and systematically developed by Richard Levins. In Levins’ (1966) distinctions between modeling strategies, loop analysis...
This paper is about structuralism as a form of reconstructing theories, associated with the work Sneed, Balzar and Moulines among others, and not about "structuralism" is any of its other manifold sen...
Scientific Realism and the Inevitability of Science
Scientific realism contingency inevitability
2008/4/22
This paper examines the question of whether scientific realism is committed to the inevitability of science or is consistent with claims of the contingency of science. In order to address this questio...
SCIENTIFIC REALISM IN THE AGE OF STRING THEORY
realism underdetermination string theory structural realism
2008/4/22
String theory currently is the only viable candidate for a unified description of all known natural forces. This article tries to demonstrate that the fundamental structural and methodological differe...
This paper describes the position of scientific realism and presents the basic lines of argument for the position. Simply put, scientific realism is the view that the aim of science is knowledge of th...
Scientific Representation and the Semantic View of Theories
Semantic view of theories scientific representation
2008/4/22
It is now part and parcel of the official philosophical wisdom that models are essential to the acquisition and organisation of scientific knowledge. It is also generally accepted that most models rep...
In this paper, I consider how different versions of the similarity account of scientific representation might apply to a simple case of scientific representation, in which a model is used to predict t...
Scientific Representation: Against Similarity and Isomorphism
representation idealization models realism structuralism
2008/4/22
I argue against theories that attempt to reduce scientific representation to similarity or isomorphism. These reductive theories aim to radically naturalise the notion of representation, since they tr...
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...