ISBN:
9789400711808
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective 2
Parallel Title:
Print version Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation
DDC:
501
Keywords:
Philosophy (General)
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Genetic epistemology
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Ontology
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Biology Philosophy
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Philosophy of nature
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Science Philosophy
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Social sciences Philosophy
Abstract:
This volume, the second in the Springer series Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective, contains selected papers from the workshops organised by the ESF Research Networking Programme PSE (The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective) in 2009. five general topics are addressed: 1. Formal Methods in the Philosophy of Science, 2. Philosophy of the Natural and Life Sciences, 3. Philosophy of the Cultural and Social Sciences, 4. Philosophy of the Physical Sciences, 5. History of the Philosophy of Science. This volume is accordingly divided in five sections, each section containing papers coming from the meetings focussing on one of these five themes. However, these sections are not completely independent and detached from each other. For example, an important connecting thread running through a substantial number of papers in this volume is the concept of probability: probability plays a central role in present-day discussions in formal epistemology, in the philosophy of the physical sciences, and in general methodological debates---it is central in discussions concerning explanation, prediction and confirmation. The volume thus also attempts to represent the intellectual exchange between the various fields in the philosophy of science that was central in the ESF workshops.
Description / Table of Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE:EXPLANATION, PREDICTION, CONFIRMATION; Team A Formal Methods; THE NO MIRACLES INTUITION AND THE NO MIRACLES ARGUMENT; 1. THE NO MIRACLES INTUITION; 2. THE 'NO MIRACLES ARGUMENT'; THE SCOPE AND LIMITS OF THE NO MIRACLES ARGUMENT1; REFERENCES; CAUSATION, ASSOCIATION AND CONFIRMATION; ABSTRACT; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. COHERENCE AS PROBABILISITIC ASSOCIATION; 3. CONFIRMATION; 4. CETERUS PARIBUS; 5. FOCUSED CORRELATION; 6. CAUSAL STRUCTURE; 7. CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; AN OBJECTIVE BAYESIAN ACCOUNT OF CONFIRMATION; ABSTRACT; 1 CARNAPIAN CONFIRMATION
Description / Table of Contents:
2 THE BAYESIAN APPROACH TO CONFIRMATION3 LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE; 4 CARNAP'S RESOLUTION; 5 PROBLEMS WITH CARNAP'S RESOLUTION; 6 A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE; 7 THE BAYESIAN APPROACH REVISITED; 8 OBJECTIVE BAYESIAN EPISTEMOLOGY; 9 OBJECTIVE BAYESIAN CONFIRMATION THEORY; BIBILIOGRAPHY; AN EXPLICATION OF THE USE OF INFERENCE TO THE BEST EXPLANATION ; 1. PROSPECTS AND PROBLEMS OF IBE; 2. HEURISTICS; 3. APPLYING THE LOGIC OF QUESTIONS: PRELIMINARIES; 4. TWO COMPARATIVE CRITERIA OF EXPLANATORY POWER; 5. APPLICATIONS TO SOME PERSISTENT QUESTIONS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Description / Table of Contents:
A FORMAL LOGIC FOR THE ABDUCTION OF SINGULAR HYPOTHESES11 INTRODUCTION; 2 THE PROBLEM; 3 MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF ABDUCTIVE REASONING; 4 INFORMAL PRESENTATION OF THE LOGIC LArs; 5 THE LOGIC LArs; 6 CONCLUSION AND OPEN PROBLEMS; PROBABILITIES IN BRANCHING STRUCTURES; REAL AND OTHER POSSIBILITIES; PROBABILITIES IN BRANCHING TIME; EXTENDING THE ACCOUNT: BRANCHING SPACE-TIMES; CONCLUSIONS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Team B Philosophy of the Natural and Life Sciences ; CAUSALITY AND EXPLANATION: ISSUES FROM EPIDEMIOLOGY; 1. EPIDEMIOLOGY PARADIGMS; 2. OVERCOMING THE BLACK BOX PARADIGM. THE SEARCH FOR MECHANISMS
Description / Table of Contents:
3. MECHANISTIC EXPLANATIONS OF LAYERED DISEASESINVARIANCE, MECHANISMS AND EPIDEMIOLOGY; REFERENCES; WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE PRAGMATIC-ONTIC ACCOUNT OF MECHANISTIC EXPLANATION?; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. WORRIES; 3. CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; CAUSALITY AND EVIDENCE DISCOVERY IN EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXISTENCE AND CAUSALITY; NON-RANDOMISED EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; INFERENCES TO CAUSAL RELEVANCE FROM EXPERIMENTS; 1 THEORY AND EXPERIENCE; 2 CAUSAL ANALYSIS; 2.1 Causal models; 2.2 Theory of causal regularities; 2.3 Principles of causal reasoning; 2.3.1 Method of Difference; 2.3.2 Assumptions
Description / Table of Contents:
2.3.3 Inferring a causal factor2.3.4 More complex designs; 2.3.5 Other inference patterns; 2.4 Difference tests in practice: notebook entries; 3 METHODOLOGY OF CAUSAL MODELS; REFERENCES; COMPARING PART-WHOLE REDUCTIVE EXPLANATIONS IN BIOLOGY AND PHYSICS1; ABSTRACT; 1. BIOLOGY, PHYSICS, AND NAGEL'S REDUCTIONIST SHADOW; 2. TEMPORALITY IN PART-WHOLE REDUCTIVE EXPLANATIONS; 2.1 Part-Whole Reductive Explanations; 2.2 Temporality; 3. COMPOSITION, CAUSATION, AND THE DIFFERENCE TIME MAKES; 3.1 Composition and Causation; 3.2 Intrinsicality and Fundamentality
Description / Table of Contents:
4. EXAMPLES: PART-WHOLE REDUCTIVE EXPLANATIONS IN BIOLOGY AND PHYSICS
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DOI:
10.1007/978-94-007-1180-8
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