The present situation in the philosophy of science

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Springer, Dordrecht

2010

422 Pages

ISBN 978-90-481-9114-7

The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective
vol. 1

The present situation in the philosophy of science

Edited by

Friedrich Stadler

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Stadler, F. (ed) (2010). The present situation in the philosophy of science, Springer, Dordrecht.

Table of Contents

Some remarks on current history of analytical philosophy of science

Uebel Thomas

13-27

History of philosophy of science as philosophy of science by other means?

Mormann Thomas

29-39

Aspects of current history of philosophy of science in the French tradition

Chimisso Cristina

41-56

Reflections on Chimisso

Brenner Anastasios

57-65

Aspects of current history of 19th century philosophy of science

Heidelberger Michael

67-74

Well, and pragmatism?

Ferrari Massimo

75-83

Formal and empirical methods in philosophy of science

Crupi Vincenzo; Hartmann Stephan

87-98

The bane of two truths

Hendricks Vincent F.

99-110

Formal methods in the philosophy of natural science

Müller Thomas

111-123

The problem of constrained judgment aggregation

Dietrich Franz; List Christian

125-139

Aggregation problems and models

Pigozzi Gabriella

141-152

Life in a physical world

Weber Marcel

155-168

Comments on Marcel Weber's "Life in a physical world: the place of the life sciences"

Debru Claude

169-172

How special are the life sciences?

Reydon Thomas A.C.

173-188

The epistemology-only approach to natural kinds

Macleod Miles

189-194

Reductionism in biology

Elgin Mehmet

195-203

Reductionist and antireductionist stances in the health sciences

Campaner Raffaella

205-218

Trends and problems in philosophy of social and cultural sciences

González Wenceslao J.

221-242

State of the art

Siitonen Arto

243-255

Scientific realism, the new mechanical philosophers, and the friends of modelling

Sintonen Matti

257-281

Is naturalism the unsurpassable philosophy for the sciences of man in the 21st century?

Andler Daniel

283-303

What does it mean to be a naturalist in the human and social sciences?

Zilhão Antonio José Teiga

305-311

Reichenbach and the conventionality of distant simultaneity in perspective

Dieks Dennis

315-333

On various senses of "conventional" and their interrelation in the philosophy of physics

Dorato Mauro

335-349

Determinism and chance from a Humean perspective

Frigg Roman; Hoefer Carl

351-371

What remains of probability?

Szabó László E.

373-379

Humean perspectives on structural realism

Lyre Holger

381-397

The characterisation of structure

Muller F. A.

399-416

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