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Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science: Global Dialogues and New Directions for Philosophy of Science

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

‘Does the Claim that there are no Theories Imply that there is no History of Theories to be Written?(!)’*

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

Classic Methodologies in the Philosophy of Science: Introduction to the Special Issue

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

Epistemology in Practice: Ernst Mach’s Experiments on Shock Waves and The Place of Philosophy

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 Scientific Utopianism Revisited-A Refined Model for Utopias in Thought Experiments

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

The Methods Behind Poincaré’s Conventions: Structuralism and Hypothetical-Deductivism

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

Elise Crull, Guido Baccagaluppi (Eds.): Grete Hermann : Between Physics and Philosophy . (Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science). Springer: Dordrecht 2016, 281 pp., 106,99€ (hardcover), ISBN 9789402409703

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

The Idea of a Pseudo-Problem in Mach, Hertz, and Boltzmann

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

The Political Dimensions of the Concept of Governance

second will be devoted to the theory and concept of governance in language and terminology; the third will focus on the political philosophy of the theory of governance with presenting some ideas in the ... political theories in the systems of government. Some Islamic movements have taken it as an axis and a goal for their political and ideological movements in our contemporary world. This article will discuss

The Political Dimensions of the Concept of Governance

second will be devoted to the theory and concept of governance in language and terminology; the third will focus on the political philosophy of the theory of governance with presenting some ideas in the ... political theories in the systems of government. Some Islamic movements have taken it as an axis and a goal for their political and ideological movements in our contemporary world. This article will discuss

The Political Dimensions of the Concept of Governance

second will be devoted to the theory and concept of governance in language and terminology; the third will focus on the political philosophy of the theory of governance with presenting some ideas in the ... political theories in the systems of government. Some Islamic movements have taken it as an axis and a goal for their political and ideological movements in our contemporary world. This article will discuss

The Locus of Agency in Extended Cognitive Systems

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

In Science We Trust: Larry Laudan (1941–2022)

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

The Significance for Natural Philosophy of the Move from Classical to Modern Physics

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

Hermann von Helmholtz and the Quantification Problem of Psychophysics

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

Pragmatism Versus Social Construction: A Reply to Shahryari

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

Alex Broadbent: Philosophy of Medicine. New York: Oxford University Press 2019, 278 pp., £19.99, ISBN: 978019061214

, 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

Equity in health and justice: a look at the Brazilian unified health system (SUS) from the perspective of John Rawls

1962 and remained there for the rest of his career. His most important work, “A Theory of Justice”, is a philosophy and ethics work and is considered one of the most important works in the political ... rights, duties, access modalities, and by solving their health problems1. The bioethics field progress over the past 40 years allows that its tenets can be applied to debates about social and political

Kostas Kampourakis and Tobias Uller (Eds.): Philosophy of Science for Biologists. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, 2020, 330 + x pp., £69.99 (hardcover), ISBN: 9781108491839

. 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

Causal Pluralism in Medicine and its Implications for Clinical Practice

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