EPSA11 Perspectives and Foundational Problems in Philosophy of Science
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Beschreibung
This book contains a selection of original conference papers covering all major fields in the philosophy of science, that have been organized into themes. The first section of this volume begins with the formal philosophy of science, moves on to idealization, representation and explanation and then finishes with realism, anti-realism and special science laws. The second section covers the philosophy of the physical sciences, looking at quantum mechanics, spontaneous symmetry breaking, the philosophy of space and time, linking physics and metaphysics and the philosophy of chemistry.
Further themed sections cover the philosophies of the life sciences, the cognitive sciences and the social sciences. Readers will find that this volume provides an excellent overview of the state of the art in the philosophy of science, as practiced in different European countries.
This book contains a selection of original conference papers covering all major fields in the philosophy of science, that have been organized into themes. The first section of this volume begins with the formal philosophy of science, moves on to idealization, representation and explanation and then finishes with realism, anti-realism and special science laws. The second section covers the philosophy of the physical sciences, looking at quantum mechanics, spontaneous symmetry breaking, the philosophy of space and time, linking physics and metaphysics and the philosophy of chemistry.
Further themed sections cover the philosophies of the life sciences, the cognitive sciences and the social sciences. Readers will find that this volume provides an excellent overview of the state of the art in the philosophy of science, as practiced in different European countries.
Presents the proceedings to the third European Philosophy of Science Association Offers new developments in philosophy of science Provides a thematic approach to the topic?
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Vassilios Karakostas
Themen in »EPSA11 Perspectives and Foundational Problems in Philosophy of Science«
Constitutive mechanistic explanations Correlation and truth Deflationism on Scientific Representation Evidence, argument and prediction Explanatory Models vs. Predictive Models Reduced Complexity Modeling in Geomorphology