This volume sheds light on still unexplored issues and raises new questions in the main areas addressed by the philosophy of science. Bringing together selected papers from three main events, the book presents the most advanced scientific results in the field and suggests innovative lines for further investigation. It explores how discussions on several notions of the philosophy of science can help different scientific disciplines in learning from each other. Finally, it focuses on the relationship between Cambridge and Vienna in twentieth century philosophy of science. The areas examined in the book are: formal methods, the philosophy of the natural and life sciences, the cultural and social sciences, the physical sciences and the history of the philosophy of science.
Preface: Maria Carla Galavotti.- TEAM A: FORMAL METHODS.
Chapter 1:
Things in Possible Experiments. Case-intensional Logic as a Framework for
Tracing Things from Case to Case; Thomas Müller.
Chapter 2: The Proof Is in
the Process. A Preamble for a Philosophy of Computer-assisted Mathematics;
Liesbeth de Mol.
Chapter 3: The Future Role of Computation in Science and
Society; Patrick Suppes.
Chapter 4: In No Categorical Terms: A Sketch for an
Alternative Route to a Humean Interpretation of Laws; Kerry McKenzie.-
Chapter 5: The Undeniable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Special
Sciences; Mark Colyvan.
Chapter 6: Comment on The Undeniable Effectiveness
of Mathematics in the Special Sciences; Tim Räz.- TEAM B: PHILOSOPHY OF THE
NATURAL AND LIFE SCIENCES.
Chapter 7: Explanatory Pluralism in Psychiatry:
What Are We Pluralists about, and Why? Raffaella Campaner.
Chapter 8:
Pluralists about Pluralism? Different Versions of Explanatory Pluralism in
Psychiatry; Jeroen van Bouwel.
Chapter 9: Shifting Attention from Theory to
Practice in Philosophy of Biology; C. Kenneth Waters.
Chapter 10: Living
Instruments and Theoretical Terms: Xenografts as Measurements in Cancer
Research; Pierre-Luc Germain.
Chapter 11: Developmental Explanation;
Veli-Pekka Parkkinen.
Chapter 12: What Counts as Causation in Physics and
Biology? Jan Faye.
Chapter 13: Challenges to Characterizing the Notion of
Causation across Disciplinary Boundaries: Comment on Faye; Jan Baedke.-
Chapter 14: Just Complexity; Max Urchs.
Chapter 15: Confessions of a
Complexity Skeptic; Raphael Scholl.
Chapter 16: New Directions in the
Philosophy of Biology: A New Taxonomy of Functions; Cristian Saborido.- TEAM
C: PHILOSOPHY OF THE CULTURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES.
Chapter 17: How
Essentialism Properly Understood Might Reconcile Realism and Social
Constructivism; Wolfgang Spohn.
Chapter 18: Social Construction byWhom?
Matti Sintonen.
Chapter 19: Is Social Constructivism Soluble in Critical
Naturalism? Daniel Andler.
Chapter 20: Scientific Representation,
Reflexivity, and the Possibility of Constructive Realism; Tarja Knuuttila.-
Chapter 21: The Limits of Realism in the Philosophy of Social Science;
David-Hillel Ruben.
Chapter 22: The Social Re-Construction of Agency;
Katarzyna Paprzycka.
Chapter 23: Local Realism. An Analysis of Social Choice
Theory; Obdulia Torres.
Chapter 24: Objectivity and Visual Practices in
Science and Art; Chiara Ambrosio.
Chapter 25: Cultural Information: Dont
Ask, Dont Tell; Tim Lewens. TEAM D: PHILOSOPHY OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES.-
Chapter 26: Introducing QBism; Christopher A. Fuchs.
Chapter 27: A Critic
Looks at QBism; Guido Bacciagaluppi.
Chapter 28: Elementary Particles and
Metaphysics; F.A. Muller.
Chapter 29: Assessing the Status of the Common
Cause Principle; Miklós Rédei.
Chapter 30: A Note on Strong Causal
Closedness and Completability of Classical Probability Spaces; Leszek Wroski
and Micha Marczyk.
Chapter 31: Artificial Examples of Empirical
Equivalence; Pablo Acuńa.
Chapter 32: The Measurement Problem is Your
Problem Too; Ronnie Hermens.
Chapter 33: Pros and Cons of Physics in Logics;
Petr varnż.
Chapter 34: How Fundamental Physics Represents Causality;
Andreas Bartels and Daniel Wohlfarth.
Chapter 35: How Fundamental Physics
Represents Causality. Comment; Mario Hubert and Roland Poellinger.
Chapter
36: Good Just Isnt Good Enough - Humean Chances and Boltzmannian Statistical
Physics; Claus Beisbart.
Chapter 37: Unsharp Humean Chances in Statistical
Physics: A Reply to Beisbart; Radin Dardashti, Luke Glynn, Karim Thébault and
Mathias Frisch.
Chapter 38: Noncommutative Causality in Algebraic Quantum
Field Theory; Gįbor Hofer-Szabó.
Chapter 39: Lost in Translation. A Comment
on Noncommutative Causality in Algebraic Quantum Field Theory;
DustinLazarovici.
Chapter 40: Causal Probabilities in GRW Quantum Mechanics;
Tomasz Placek.
Chapter 41: Physics, Metaphysics and Mathematics; Dennis
Dieks.- TEAM E: HISTORY OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE.
Chapter 42: Where
Would We Be without Counterfactuals? Huw Price.
Chapter 43: Pragmatism and
European Philosophy: William James and the French-Italian Connection; Massimo
Ferrari.
Chapter 44: European Pragmatism? Further Thoughts on the German and
Austrian Reception of American Pragmatism; Thomas Uebel.
Chapter 45: New
Prospects for Pragmatism: Ramseys Constructivism; Maria Carla Galavotti.-
Chapter 46: Critical Realism in Perspective Remarks on a Neglected Current
in Neo-Kantian Epistemology; Matthias Neuber.
Chapter 47: Realism without
Mirrors; Henrik Rydenfelt.
Chapter 48: The Continuing Relevance of
19th-Century Philosophy of Psychology: Brentano and the Autonomy of
Psychological Methods; Uljana Feest.
Chapter 49: On the Logical Positivists
Philosophy of Psychology: Laying a Legend to Rest; Sean Crawford.
Chapter
50: Epistemology Historicized: The French Tradition; Anastasios Brenner.-
Chapter 51: Commentary on Brenners Epistemology Historicised; Cristina
Chimisso.
Chapter 52: History and Philosophy of Science: Between Description
and Construction; Friedrich Stadler.
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