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Institute, Utrecht University , Princetonplein 5, Utrecht 3584 CC , The Netherlands 1 Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Utrecht University , Janskerkhof 13, Utrecht 3512 BL , The Netherlands ... Philosophy of science has been, and continues to be, dominated by European and North American voices. By convening more diverse voices from across the globe, both new and standing ontological, epistemological
might think about the relationship between the history of science and the philosophy of science. ... Steven French 0 0 School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science, University of Leeds , Leeds , UK 1 I would like to thank the participants in the work-in-progress seminar series of the Centre for
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Philosophy of Science, Faculty of Philosophy, Universidad de Sevilla , C/Camilo José Cela S/N, 41018 Seville , Spain 1 Instituto de Filosofia / Faculdade de Ciências ... Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campus de Campolide - Colégio Almada Negreiros , 1099-032 Lisboa , Portugal - 1 Introduction Philosophy of sciences as we know it is a relatively recent
history of science. In addition, in 1895 he was appointed as Ordinarius of philosophy, “especially for the history and theory of inductive sciences” (Blackmore 1972, 145–154) . Undoubtedly, these strands ... English-speaking area, of significant papers and books in the last decades. On the relationship between psychophysics, psychology and philosophy in Mach’s thought see, in particular, Cohen (1968
Otto Neurath’s empiricist methodology of economics and his contributions to political economy have gained increasing attention in recent years. We connect this research with contemporary debates ... . This would emphasize the literary character of utopias. But utopias are not only pieces of political philosophy and of literature, as Neurath reminds us, so a third way is to conceive utopias as part of
scientific practice and his philosophy. ... Philosophy, Logic and Philosophy of Science, Faculty of Philosophy, Universidad de Sevilla , C/Camilo José Cela S/N, 41018 Seville , Spain Poincaré's conventionalism has been interpreted in many writings as
Journal for General Philosophy of Science https://doi.org/10.1007/s10838 Michael Drieschner 0 0 Institut für Philosophie I, Ruhr-Universität Bochum , Bochum , Germany Grete Hermann must have been ... a fascinating woman: After studies in mathematics, physics, and philosophy at the University of Göttingen she obtained a doctorate degree in mathematics under the supervision of Emmy Noether, who
Identifications, diagnoses, and treatments of pseudo-problems form a family of classic methodologies in later nineteenth century philosophy and at least partly, I shall argue, in the philosophy of ... , was far less focussed, being applied to a very wide range of problems in philosophy and physics. However, his conception was certainly more influential, and perhaps ultimately more fruitful and
discussion in many areas of philosophy and cognitive science. Its consequences are far-reaching, in that it challenges the standard, internalist understanding of autonomous agency that makes reference to ... at the social, cultural and political level. options, infer and weigh up the consequences of alternative courses of action, assess potential goals and methods of achieving them, solve problems on their
Journal for General Philosophy of Science https://doi.org/10.1007/s10838 Stathis Psillos 0 1 0 Larry Laudan, an American philosopher widely regarded as a giant of the profession for game-changing ... contributions to philosophy of science , died in 1 University of Athens , Athens , Greece 1 Biography and Academic Career Laudan was born in Austin, Texas, in 1941. During the Second World War, his family moved
within natural philosophy of reconciling these two aspects. 2. The dualism between the wave and particle picture in quantum mechanics, with its consequences for [our] causal command of natural phenomena ... abandonment of an old expectation, which in the Enlightenment dominated research in both physics and natural philosophy, namely the expectation that in the end physics would reduce completely to classical
conceptions in two main respects. Firstly, Helmholtz advocated an empiricist philosophy of arithmetic as grounded in some psychological facts concerning quantification. Secondly, his theory implies that ... measurement reached a new synthesis between his empiricist theory of perception and some of the tenets of neo-Kantian philosophy (Biagioli 2016, Ch. 4; 2018) . My suggestion here is that, in Helmholtz’s view
be epistemically independent of each other, which is a correct assumption given the last twenty-five years or so of research in the history and philosophy of science. Pragmatism is a genuine ... Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Chang , Hasok. 2022 . Realism for Realistic People: A New Pragmatist Philosophy of Science
, ISBN: 978019061214 , USA 1 Division of Philosophy, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) , Stockholm , Sweden Philosophy of Medicine represents the culmination of Alex Broadbent's work, following his ... previous book, the highly praised Philosophy of Epidemiology (2013). The present work comprises nine diverse essays and is divided into two parts. The essays in the first part (Chapters 1-4) are dedicated to
. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK , 2020, 330 1 x pp. , £ 69.99 (hardcover), ISBN: 9781108491839 2 Department of Philosophy I, Ruhr University Bochum , 44801 Bochum , Germany It is a commonly held ... belief among philosophers of science that philosophy can contribute to scientific debates (and maybe even scientific progress) and that scientists would benefit both from reflecting philosophically on
decisions. Causal pluralism; Causal inference; Philosophy of medicine; RCT; Clinical practice 1 Introduction Obtaining causal knowledge is a major concern for biomedical sciences. Still, there is little ... ‘cause’ in medicine and remain agnostic about ontology. Pluralism about the concept of cause has been recently supported in philosophy of medicine. Campaner and Galavotti (2012 ; 2007) distinguished
Realism; Bad Lot; Teleological Epistemology; Veritism; Epistemic Consequentialism 1 Introduction The goal of the paper is to bridge a gap between epistemology and philosophy of science by applying a ... this paper and a reviewer of the Journal for General Philosophy of Science for helpful suggestions. The scientific realism debate revolves around the relation between our scientific theories and the
, 44801 Bochum , Germany The first issue of JGPS was published in 1970 as „Band I Heft 1“of Zeitschrift für allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie-Journal for General Philosophy of Science with Franz Steiner ... French were considered for publication. The journal was further intended to provide a forum for various intellectual traditions and sub-disciplines of the philosophy of science. It was of special
Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health , Research Triangle Park, NC , USA 1 Philosophy and Sociology of Science, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife and Department of Philosophy, Michigan ... , social, economic, or political values (Douglas 2009) . Proponents of this view recognized that social and economic conditions, such as the availability of research funding and ethical constraints on the
accountable to moral or political standards. In this paper, I argue that the distinction between basic and applied science, and the concomitant debate about freedom and social responsibility, require revision ... 0 Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow , Toronto , Canada There has been a resurgence between two closely related discussions concerning modern
