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Duhem and Holism
Häftad, 2021
308 kr
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The holistic thesis developed by Pierre Duhem challenges the idea that our evidence can conclusively falsify a theory. Given that no scientific theory is tested in isolation, a negative experiment can always be attributed to components other than the theory we test - to the auxiliary hypotheses and …
Natural Kinds
Häftad, 2023
282 kr
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Scientists cannot devise theories, construct models, propose explanations, make predictions, or even carry out observations, without first classifying their subject matter. The goal of scientific taxonomy is to come up with classification schemes that conform to nature's own. Another way of putting …
Scientific Representation
Häftad, 2022
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This Element presents a philosophical exploration of the notion of scientific representation. It does so by focussing on an important class of scientific representations, namely scientific models. Models are important in the scientific process because scientists can study a model to discover …
Scientific Models and Decision Making
Av Eric Winsberg, Stephanie Harvard
Häftad, 2024
291 kr
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This Element introduces the philosophical literature on models, with an emphasis on normative considerations relevant to models for decision-making. Chapter 1 gives an overview of core questions in the philosophy of modeling. Chapter 2 examines the concept of model adequacy for purpose, using three …
Science and the Public
Häftad, 2024
308 kr
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Science is a product of society: in its funding, its participation, and its application. This Element explores the relationship between science and the public with resources from philosophy of science. Chapter 1 defines the questions about science's relationship to the public and outlines science's …
Values in Science
Häftad, 2022
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This Element introduces the philosophical literature on values in science by examining four questions: (1) How do values influence science? (2) Should we actively incorporate values in science? (3) How can we manage values in science responsibly? (4) What are some next steps for those who want to …
Objectivity in Science
Av Stephen John
Häftad, 2021
308 kr
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Objectivity is a key concept both in how we talk about science in everyday life and in the philosophy of science. This Element explores various ways in which recent philosophers of science have thought about the nature, value and achievability of objectivity. The first section explains the general …
Underdetermination and Theoretical Virtues
Häftad, 2025
282 kr
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This Element advances a novel view - the Epistemic Labour View - about the role, limits, and potential of the theoretical virtues as the arbiters of various versions of underdetermination. A central focus is to go beyond the often abstract discussions in this area and to show how the theoretical …
Abductive Reasoning in Science
Häftad, 2024
302 kr
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In abductive reasoning, scientific theories are evaluated on the basis of how well they would explain the available evidence. There are a number of subtly different accounts of this type of reasoning, most of which are inspired by the popular slogan 'Inference to the Best Explanation.' However, …
Modelling Scientific Communities
Häftad, 2023
282 kr
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This Element will overview research using models to understand scientific practice. Models are useful for reasoning about groups and processes that are complicated and distributed across time and space, i.e., those that are difficult to study using empirical methods alone. Science fits this …
Philosophy of Open Science
Häftad, 2023
406 kr
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The Open Science [OS] movement aims to foster the wide dissemination, scrutiny and re-use of research components for the good of science and society. This Element examines the role played by OS principles and practices within contemporary research and how this relates to the epistemology of …
Science, Pseudoscience, and the Demarcation Problem
Av Dániel Bárdos, Adam Tamas Tuboly
Häftad, 2025
308 kr
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This Element examines various aspects of the demarcation problem: finding a distinction between science and pseudoscience. Section 1 introduces issues surrounding pseudoscience in the recent literature. Popper's falsificationism is presented in Section 2, alongside some of its early critics, such …
Modelling Scientific Communities
Inbunden, 2023
911 kr
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This Element will overview research using models to understand scientific practice. Models are useful for reasoning about groups and processes that are complicated and distributed across time and space, i.e., those that are difficult to study using empirical methods alone. Science fits this …
Scientific Models and Decision Making
Av Eric Winsberg, Stephanie Harvard
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
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This Element introduces the philosophical literature on models, with an emphasis on normative considerations relevant to models for decision-making. Chapter 1 gives an overview of core questions in the philosophy of modeling. Chapter 2 examines the concept of model adequacy for purpose, using three …
Logical Empiricism as Scientific Philosophy
Häftad, 2024
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This Element offers a new account of the philosophical significance of logical empiricism that relies on the past forty years of literature reassessing the project. It argues that while logical empiricism was committed to empiricism and did become tied to the trajectory of analytic philosophy, …
Logical Empiricism as Scientific Philosophy
Inbunden, 2024
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This Element offers a new account of the philosophical significance of logical empiricism that relies on the past forty years of literature reassessing the project. It argues that while logical empiricism was committed to empiricism and did become tied to the trajectory of analytic philosophy, …
Science and the Public
Inbunden, 2024
911 kr
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Science is a product of society: in its funding, its participation, and its application. This Element explores the relationship between science and the public with resources from philosophy of science. Chapter 1 defines the questions about science's relationship to the public and outlines science's …
The Philosophy of Linguistics
Inbunden, 2025
911 kr
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The philosophy of linguistics reflects on multiple scientific disciplines aimed at the understanding of one of the most fundamental aspects of human existence, our ability to produce and understand natural language. Linguistics, viewed as a science, has a long history but it was the advent of the …
The Philosophy of Linguistics
Häftad, 2025
282 kr
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The philosophy of linguistics reflects on multiple scientific disciplines aimed at the understanding of one of the most fundamental aspects of human existence, our ability to produce and understand natural language. Linguistics, viewed as a science, has a long history but it was the advent of the …
Abductive Reasoning in Science
Inbunden, 2024
892 kr
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In abductive reasoning, scientific theories are evaluated on the basis of how well they would explain the available evidence. There are a number of subtly different accounts of this type of reasoning, most of which are inspired by the popular slogan 'Inference to the Best Explanation.' However, …
Scientific Realism
Inbunden, 2025
911 kr
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The scientific realism debate directly addresses the relation between human thought and the reality in which it finds itself. A core question: Can we justifiably believe that science accurately describes the reality that lies beneath the limits of human experience? Exploring this question, this …
The Social Dimensions of Scientific Knowledge
Consensus, Controversy, and Coproduction
Av Boaz Miller
Inbunden, 2025
911 kr
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This Element is about the social dimensions of scientific knowledge. The first section asks in what ways scientific knowledge is social. The second section develops a conception of scientific knowledge that accommodates the insights of the first section, and is consonant with mainstream thinking …
Feminist Philosophy of Science
Av Anke Bueter
Inbunden, 2024
911 kr
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Feminist scholars have identified pervasive gender discrimination in science as an institution, as well as gender bias in the very content of many scientific theories. An ameliorative project at heart, feminist philosophy of science has inquired into the social and epistemological roots and …
Analogical Reasoning in Science
Av Francesco Nappo, Giovanni Valente
Inbunden, 2026
911 kr
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When faced with a difficult problem or limited information about a novel domain, how do scientists advance their research? As historians of science have widely noted, one strategy common to the natural and the social sciences is to make use of analogy. Formulating hypotheses about an unknown system …
Analogical Reasoning in Science
Av Francesco Nappo, Giovanni Valente
Häftad, 2026
276 kr
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When faced with a difficult problem or limited information about a novel domain, how do scientists advance their research? As historians of science have widely noted, one strategy common to the natural and the social sciences is to make use of analogy. Formulating hypotheses about an unknown system …
Underdetermination and Theoretical Virtues
Inbunden, 2025
911 kr
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This Element advances a novel view - the Epistemic Labour View - about the role, limits, and potential of the theoretical virtues as the arbiters of various versions of underdetermination. A central focus is to go beyond the often abstract discussions in this area and to show how the theoretical …
Science, Pseudoscience, and the Demarcation Problem
Av Dániel Bárdos, Adam Tamas Tuboly
Inbunden, 2025
911 kr
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This Element examines various aspects of the demarcation problem: finding a distinction between science and pseudoscience. Section 1 introduces issues surrounding pseudoscience in the recent literature. Popper's falsificationism is presented in Section 2, alongside some of its early critics, such …
Climate Science
Häftad, 2025
282 kr
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This Element examines how climate scientists have arrived at answers to three key questions about climate change: How much is earth's climate warming? What is causing this warming? What will climate be like in the future? Resources from philosophy of science are employed to analyse the methods that …
Climate Science
Inbunden, 2025
911 kr
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This Element examines how climate scientists have arrived at answers to three key questions about climate change: How much is earth's climate warming? What is causing this warming? What will climate be like in the future? Resources from philosophy of science are employed to analyse the methods that …
Science Denial
Post-Truth or Post-Trust?
Inbunden, 2025
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Over the last couple of decades, there has been increasing concern about the alleged rise of various forms of science denial. But what exactly is science denial? Is it really on the rise? If so, what explains its rise? And what is so concerning about it? This Element argues that the notion of …
