Epsa Philosophy of Science: Amsterdam 2009

Book Overview

1. Modeling Strategies for Measuring Phenomena In- and Outside the Laboratory.- Marcel Boumans, - 2. Mating Intelligence, Moral Virtues, and Methodological Vices.-

Tomislav Bracanovic.- 3. Rejected Posits, Realism, and the History of Science, Alberto Cordero.- 4. Explanation and Modelization in a Comprehensive Inferential Account.- Xavier de Donato-Rodr guez and Jes s Zamora-Bonilla.- 5. Experimental Standards: Evaluating Success in Stem Cell Biology.- Fagan, Melinda.- 6. Modeling Scientific Evidence: The Challenge of Specifying Likelihoods.-Patrick Forber.- 7. Persistence in Minkowski Space-Time.- Cord Friebe.- 8. Genuine versus Deceptive Emotional Displays, Jonathan Grose, - 9. Tales of Tools and Trees: Phylogenetic Analysis and Explanation in Evolutionary Archaeology, - Wybo Houkes,

10. Sustaining a Rational Disagreement, - Christoph Kelp and Igor Douven, -

11. Philosophical Accounts of Causal Explanation and the Scientific Practice of Psychophysics, Tim Christian Kietzmann, - 12. Meta-analysis as Judgment Aggregation, Berna Kilinc, - 13. The Uninvited Guest: 'Local Realism' and the Bell Theorem, Federico Laudisa, - 14. On Tins and Tin-openers, Michael Liston, -

15. The Problem of Identifying the System and the Environment in the Phenomenon of Decoherence

Olimpia Lombardi, Sebastian Fortin and Mario Castagnino, -

16. Formal and Material Theories in Philosophy of Science: A Methodological Interpretation, Alan Love, -

17. Axiological Scientific Realism and Methodological Prescription, Timothy D. Lyons, -

18. Consensus Formation in Networked Groups, Carlo Martini, - 19. Mirror Neurons and Social Cognition: An Expanded Simulationist Framework, John Michael, -

20. Identity in Physics: Statistics and the (Non-)Individuality of Quantum Particles, Matteo Morganti, -

21. The Fiber Bundle at the Gates of Metaphysics. Challenging Maudlin's Proposal, - Ioan Muntean, -

22. The Phase Rule and the Notion of Substance, Paul Needham, - 23. Pattern and Process in Eco-Devo: Descriptions and Explanations, Laura Nu o de la Rosa and Arantza Etxeberria, -

24. Three Conceptions of Explaining How Possibly - And One Reductive Account, Johannes Persson, -

25. An Improper Introduction to Epistemic Utility Theory,

Richard Pettigrew, -

26. Defending Underdetermination or Why the Historical Perspective Makes a Difference, Wolfgang Pietsch, -

27. An Information Semantic Account of Scientific Models,

Anna-Mari Rusanen and Otto Lappi, -

28. Scienti?c Realism and Historical Evidence: Shortcomings of the Current State of Debate, Juha Saatsi, -

29. Venetian Sea Levels, British Bread Prices and the Principle of the Common Cause: A Reassessment, I aki San Pedro, -

30. Coincidences and How to Reason About Them, Elliott Sober, -

31. Stopping Rules and Data Monitoring in Clinical Trials, Roger Stanev, -

32. Two Comments on the Common Cause Principle in Algebraic Quantum Field Theory, Chrysovalantis Stergiou, -

33. The Role of Unification in Explanations of Facts,

Erik Weber, Jeroen Van Bouwel and Merel Lefevere, -

34. Calibration, Paul Weirich, -

35. Observational Equivalence of Deterministic and Indeterministic Descriptions and the Role of Different Observations, Charlotte Werndl, -

36. Demarcating Presentism, Christian Wuthrich.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9400724039
• ISBN13: 9789400724037
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 458 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"