Philosophy of Science Between the Natural Sciences, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities /
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| Summary: | XXI, 274 p. 17 illus., 4 illus. in color. text |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2018.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018. |
| Series: | European Studies in Philosophy of Science,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72577-2 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction (Alexander Christian, David Hommen, Nina Retzlaff and Gerhard Schurz)
- Part I: Philosophy of physics
- Chapter 1: Quantum Gravity: An Ideology of Unification? (Kian Salimkhani)
- Chapter 2: On Predictions and Explanations in Multiverse Scenarios (Keizo Matsubara)
- Chapter 3: The Role of the Concept of Causation in Physics (Enno Fischer)
- Chapter 4: Causality in General Relativity. “Partial Determination” Revisited (Andrea Reichenberger)
- Part II. Philosophy of life sciences
- Chapter 5: The Philosophical Concept of Agency between Systems Biology and Artificial Intelligence (Anne Sophie Meincke)
- Chapter 6. Functions, Malfunctioning, and Negative Causation (Ludger Jansen)
- Chapter 7. The Quantitative Problem for Theories of Function and Dysfunction (Thomas Schramme)
- Chapter 8. On the Explanatory Character of the Serial Endosymbiotic Theory of the Origin of Eukaryotic Cells (Javier Suárez and Roger Deulofeu)
- Part III. Philosophy of social sciences & values inscience
- Chapter 9. Agnotological Challenges: How to Capture the Production of Ignorance (Martin Carrier)
- Chapter 10. The “Invisible Hand” as a Natural Law (Judith Würgler)
- Chapter 11. Micro Economics Between the Natural Sciences and the Humanities (Karsten Klint Jensen)
- Chapter 12. The Role of “Ought” in Value Theory: Philosophical and Sociological Perspectives (Elizaveta Kostrova)
- Chapter 13. From Stability to Validity: How Standards Serve Epistemic Ends (Lara Huber)
- Part IV. Philosophy of mathematics & formal modeling
- Chapter 14. A Theory of Constitutive Inference for the Regularity Account of Mechanistic Constitution (Jens Harbecke). Chapter 15. Recognition Procedures and Dag Prawitz’s Theory of Grounds (Antonio Piccolomini d’Aragona)
- Chapter 16. Exploratory Modes of Scientific Inquiry: From Experimentation to Modeling (Axel Gelfert).