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Constraints on Localization and Decomposition as Explanatory Strategies in the Biological Sciences
mechanism,localization decomposition systems neuroscience graph theory
2016/5/31
Several articles have recently appeared arguing that there really are no viable alternatives to mechanistic explanation in the biological sciences (Kaplan and Craver 2011; Kaplan and Bechtel 2011). Th...
The Scaling of Speeds and Distances in Galileo’s Two New Sciences:A reply to Palmerino and Laird
Galileo history physics freefall
2016/5/30
In this reply, we respond to the comments of Palmerino and Laird on our article, "Galileo's Refutation of the Speed Distance Law of Fall Rehabilitated," published in the same issue of Centaurus.
Causality and Explanation in the Sciences
causality explanation sciences causalidad explicación ciencias
2016/5/30
Editors’ introduction to the special issue on the Causality and Explanation in the Sciences conference, held at the University of Ghent in September 2011.Presentación del número monográfico sobre el c...
“The most philosophically of all the sciences”:Karl Popper and physical cosmology
Karl Popper Hermann Bondi cosmology falsifiability demarcation steady state theory
2016/5/30
Problems of scientific cosmology only rarely occur in the works of Karl Popper. Nevertheless, it was a subject that interested him and which he occasionally commented on. What is more important, his g...
Classifying Contingency in the Social Sciences: Diachronic, Synchronic, and Deterministic Contingency
contingency conjuncture possible worlds semantics indeterminism
2011/9/6
This article makes three claims concerning the concept of contingency. First, we argue that the word contingency is used in far too many ways to be useful. Its many meanings are detrimental to clarity...
Special Sciences, Conspiracy and the Better Best System Account of Lawhood
laws laws of nature lawhood Humeanism
2009/11/18
An important obstacle to lawhood in the special sciences is the worry that such laws would require metaphysically extravagant conspiracies among fundamental particles.
If, for example, Malthus's Law ...
Experiments in the Social Sciences: The relationship between External and Internal Validity
internal validity external validity experiments experimental economics
2009/9/16
The article identifies a latent debate in the recent literature on the role and worth of experiments in economics and other social sciences concerning the relationship between the external and the int...
Causation, Exclusion, and the Special Sciences
downward causation causal exclusion mental causation interventionist theory of causation
2009/4/14
The issue of downward causation (and mental causation in particular), and the exclusion problem is discussed by taking into account some recent advances in the philosophy of science. The problem is vi...
International Conference of Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences
Philosophy Cognitive Sciences
2009/2/5
The Institute of Philosophy of Science and Cognitive Sciences and the Department of Philosophy at Zhongshan University will hold an international conference of philosophy and cognitive sciences on J...
Interpretation in science has gained little attention in the past because philosophers of science believed that interpretation belongs to the context of discovery or must be associated with meaning. B...
The Type-Token Distinction and the Mind and Brain Sciences
Natural Kinds Unity of Science Mind-Body Problem
2008/4/1
This paper is an analysis of scientific types – the categories of a scientific taxonomy. I argue that the philosophical view about mental types stands in contrast to the real nature of scientific type...
The Type-Token Distinction and the Mind and Brain Sciences
Natural Kinds Unity of Science Mind-Body Problem Identity Theory of Mind Physicalism
2011/9/7
This paper is an analysis of scientific types – the categories of a scientific taxonomy. I argue that the philosophical view about mental types stands in contrast to the real nature of scientific type...