New Directions in the Philosophy of Science

Preface: Maria Carla Galavotti.- TEAM A: FORMAL METHODS.- Chapter 1: Things in Possible Experiments. Case-intensional Logic as a Framework for Tracing Things from Case to Case; Thomas Mller.- Chapter 2: The Proof Is in the Process. A Preamble for a Philosophy of Computer-assisted Mathematics; Liesbeth de Mol.- Chapter 3: The Future Role of Computation in Science and Society; Patrick Suppes.- Chapter 4: In No Categorical Terms: A Sketch for an Alternative Route to a Humean Interpretation of Laws; Kerry McKenzie.- Chapter 5: The Undeniable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Special Sciences; Mark Colyvan.- Chapter 6: Comment on The Undeniable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Special Sciences; Tim Rz.- TEAM B: PHILOSOPHY OF THE NATURAL AND LIFE SCIENCES.- Chapter 7: Explanatory Pluralism in Psychiatry: What Are We Pluralists about, and Why? Raffaella Campaner.- Chapter 8: Pluralists about Pluralism? Different Versions of Explanatory Pluralism in Psychiatry; Jeroen van Bouwel.- Chapter 9: Shifting Attention from Theory to Practice in Philosophy of Biology; C. Kenneth Waters.- Chapter 10: Living Instruments and Theoretical Terms: Xenografts as Measurements in Cancer Research; Pierre-Luc Germain.- Chapter 11: Developmental Explanation; Veli-Pekka Parkkinen.- Chapter 12: What Counts as Causation in Physics and Biology? Jan Faye.- Chapter 13: Challenges to Characterizing the Notion of Causation across Disciplinary Boundaries: Comment on Faye; Jan Baedke.- Chapter 14: Just Complexity; Max Urchs.- Chapter 15: Confessions of a Complexity Skeptic; Raphael Scholl.- Chapter 16: New Directions in the Philosophy of Biology: A New Taxonomy of Functions; Cristian Saborido.- TEAM C: PHILOSOPHY OF THE CULTURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES.- Chapter 17: How Essentialism Properly Understood Might Reconcile Realism and Social Constructivism; Wolfgang Spohn.- Chapter 18: Social Construction byWhom? Matti Sintonen.- Chapter 19: Is Social Constructivism Soluble in Critical Naturalism? Daniel Andler.- Chapter 20: Scientific Representation, Reflexivity, and the Possibility of Constructive Realism; Tarja Knuuttila.- Chapter 21: The Limits of Realism in the Philosophy of Social Science; David-Hillel Ruben.- Chapter 22: The Social Re-Construction of Agency; Katarzyna Paprzycka.- Chapter 23: Local Realism. An Analysis of Social Choice Theory; Obdulia Torres.- Chapter 24: Objectivity and Visual Practices in Science and Art; Chiara Ambrosio.- Chapter 25: Cultural Information: Dont Ask, Dont Tell; Tim Lewens. TEAM D: PHILOSOPHY OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES.- Chapter 26: Introducing QBism; Christopher A. Fuchs.- Chapter 27: A Critic Looks at QBism; Guido Bacciagaluppi.- Chapter 28: Elementary Particles and Metaphysics; F.A. Muller.- Chapter 29: Assessing the Status of the Common Cause Principle; Mikls Rdei.- Chapter 30: A Note on Strong Causal Closedness and Completability of Classical Probability Spaces; Leszek Wroski and Micha Marczyk.- Chapter 31: Artificial Examples of Empirical Equivalence; Pablo Acua.- Chapter 32: The Measurement Problem is Your Problem Too; Ronnie Hermens.- Chapter 33: Pros and Cons of Physics in Logics; Petr varn.- Chapter 34: How Fundamental Physics Represents Causality; Andreas Bartels and Daniel Wohlfarth.- Chapter 35: How Fundamental Physics Represents Causality. Comment; Mario Hubert and Roland Poellinger.- Chapter 36: Good Just Isnt Good Enough - Humean Chances and Boltzmannian Statistical Physics; Claus Beisbart.- Chapter 37: Unsharp Humean Chances in Statistical Physics: A Reply to Beisbart; Radin Dardashti, Luke Glynn, Karim Thbault and Mathias Frisch.- Chapter 38: Noncommutative Causality in Algebraic Quantum Field Theory; Gbor Hofer-Szab.- Chapter 39: Lost in Translation. A Comment on Noncommutative Causality in Algebraic Quantum Field Theory; DustinLazarovici.- Chapter 40: Causal Probabilities in GRW Quantum Mechanics; Tomasz Placek.- Chapter 41: Physics, Metaphysics and Mathe