EPSA Philosophy of Science: Amsterdam 2009

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-Rodrguez and Jess 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 Nuo 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, Iaki 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.