EPSA Philosophical Issues in the Sciences [electronic resource] : Launch of the European Philosophy of Science Association / edited by Mauricio Suárez, Mauro Dorato, Miklós Rédei.

Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9789048132522
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2010.
Yayın Bilgisi
Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
Fiziksel Niteleme
X, 332 p. online resource.
İçindekiler Notu
Contingency and Inherency in Evolutionary Developmental Biology -- Dualities and Intertheoretic Relations -- Are ‘Identical Quantum Particles’ Weakly Discernible Objects? -- Wave–Particle Duality in Quantum Optics -- Remarks on a Structural Account of Scientific Explanation -- Mathematical Knowledge and the Interplay of Practices -- Einstein, Kant, and the A Priori -- Causal Models and the Asymmetry of State Preparation -- Bell-Type Inequalities from Separate Common Causes -- Entanglement, Upper Probabilities and Decoherence in Quantum Mechanics -- Gauge Symmetry and the Theta-Vacuum -- The Chemical Bond: Structure, Energy and Explanation -- Randomness, Financial Markets and the Brownian Motion: A Reflection on the Role of Mathematics in Their Interaction with Financial Theory After 1973 -- Causation Across Levels, Constitution, and Constraint -- Epistemic Consequences of Two Different Strategies for Decomposing Biological Networks -- Matter(s) in Relativity Theory -- Individual Particles, Properties and Quantum Statistics -- Evolution and Directionality: Lessons from Fisher’s Fundamental Theorem -- Substantive General Covariance: Another Decade of Dispute -- Relativity, Locality and Tense -- A Weylian Approach Towards Theories of Matter: Dynamic Agents and Geometrisation -- Mirroring and Understanding Action -- Absolute Objects and General Relativity: Dynamical Considerations -- Empirical Foundation of Space and Time -- Making Contact with Observations -- The Formulation and Justification of Mathematical Definitions Illustrated By Deterministic Chaos -- Do We Need Some Large, Simple Randomized Trials in Medicine? -- Incontinence, Honouring Sunk Costs and Rationality -- Causal Fundamentalism in Physics.
Konu
Science __ Philosophy.
Philosophy and social sciences.
Biology __ Philosophy.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Logic.
Philosophy of Science.
Philosophy of the Social Sciences.
Philosophy of Biology.
Epistemology.
Logic.