This Element mentions the philosophy of linguistics as it reflects on multiple scientific disciplines aimed at the understanding of our ability to produce and understand natural language. The advent of the formal revolution in cognitive science esta...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Aug-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009491945)
This Element mentions the philosophy of linguistics as it reflects on multiple scientific disciplines aimed at the understanding of our ability to produce and understand natural language. The advent of the formal revolution in cognitive science esta...Lasīt vairāk
This Element advances the epistemic labour view about the role, limits, and potential of the theoretical virtues as the arbiters of various versions of underdetermination. It shows how the theoretical virtues can resolve issues surrounding underdete...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 03-Jul-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009547833)
This Element advances the epistemic labour view about the role, limits, and potential of the theoretical virtues as the arbiters of various versions of underdetermination. It shows how the theoretical virtues can resolve issues surrounding underdete...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 06-Mar-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009548144)
This Element examines various aspects of the demarcation problem: finding a distinction between science and pseudoscience. Section 1 introduces issues surrounding pseudoscience in the recent literature. Poppers falsificationism is presented in Secti...Lasīt vairāk
This Element examines various aspects of the demarcation problem: finding a distinction between science and pseudoscience. It consists of issues surrounding pseudoscience, Poppers falsificationism, criticism of the Popperian program, approaches to d...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Feb-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009507226)
This Element begins at the most foundational level of scientific realism, the endeavor to justify belief in the existence of unobservables by way of abduction. Because it takes scientific realism to be the default position of many-scientific realist...Lasīt vairāk
The scientific realism debate directly addresses the relation between human thought and the reality in which it finds itself. A core question: can we justifiably believe that science accurately describes the reality that lies beneath the limits of hu...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 06-Feb-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009507233)
This Element is about the social dimensions of scientific knowledge. The first section asks in what ways scientific knowledge is social. The second section develops a conception of scientific knowledge that accommodates the insights of the first sect...Lasīt vairāk
This Element is about the social dimensions of scientific knowledge. The first section asks in what ways scientific knowledge is social. The second section develops a conception of scientific knowledge that accommodates the insights of the first sect...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 09-Jan-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009619349)
This Element examines how climate scientists have arrived at answers to three key questions about climate change: How much is earths climate warming? What is causing this warming? What will climate be like in the future? Resources from philosophy of...Lasīt vairāk
This Element explores climate scientists methods and inferences on global warming, utilizing the philosophy of science resources. It contributes to philosophical discussions on data modelling, measurement, robustness analysis, explanation, and mode...Lasīt vairāk
In abductive reasoning, scientific theories are evaluated on the basis of how well they would explain the available evidence. There are a number of subtly different accounts of this type of reasoning, most of which are inspired by the popular slogan...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 17-Oct-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009500524)
In abductive reasoning, scientific theories are evaluated on the basis of how well they would explain the available evidence. There are a number of subtly different accounts of this type of reasoning, most of which are inspired by the popular slogan...Lasīt vairāk
Feminist scholars have identified pervasive gender discrimination in science as an institution, as well as gender bias in the very content of many scientific theories. An ameliorative project at heart, feminist philosophy of science has inquired into...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Jun-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009507257)
Feminist scholars have identified pervasive gender discrimination in science as an institution, as well as gender bias in the very content of many scientific theories. An ameliorative project at heart, feminist philosophy of science has inquired into...Lasīt vairāk
This Element explores the relationship between science and the public with resources from philosophy of science. It covers sciences relationship to the public, public trust in science, science denial, expanded participation in science, and sciences...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 25-Apr-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009475822)
This Element explores the relationship between science and the public with resources from philosophy of science. It covers sciences relationship to the public, public trust in science, science denial, expanded participation in science, and sciences...Lasīt vairāk
This Element introduces the philosophical literature on models, with an emphasis on normative considerations relevant to models for decision-making. It establishes the need for strategies to manage value judgments in modelling, including the potentia...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 08-Feb-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009468213)
This Element introduces the philosophical literature on models, with an emphasis on normative considerations relevant to models for decision-making. Chapter 1 gives an overview of core questions in the philosophy of modeling. Chapter 2 examines the c...Lasīt vairāk
