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Explanation, prediction, and confirmation
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This volume, the second in the Springer series Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective, contains selected papers from the workshops organised by the ESF Research Networking Programme PSE (The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective) in 2009. Five general topics are addressed:1. Formal Methods in the Philosophy of Science;2. Philosophy of the Natural and Life Sciences;3. Philosophy of the Cultural and Social Sciences;4. Philosophy of the Physical Sciences;5. History of the Philosophy of Science. This volume is accordingly divided in five sections, each section containing papers coming from the meetings focussing on one of these five themes. However, these sections are not completely independent and detached from each other. For example, an important connecting thread running through a substantial number of papers in this volume is the concept of probability: probability plays a central role in present-day discussions in formal epistemology, in the philosophy of the physical sciences, and in general methodological debates---it is central in discussions concerning explanation, prediction and confirmation. The volume thus also attempts to represent the intellectual exchange between the various fields in the philosophy of science that was central in the ESF workshops.
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pp.11-21
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1180-8_1pp.23-35
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1180-8_2pp.83-91
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1180-8_5pp.93-108
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1180-8_6issues from epidemiology
pp.125-135
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1180-8_8pp.141-152
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1180-8_10pp.153-166
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1180-8_11pp.167-182
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1180-8_12pp.183-202
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1180-8_13pp.241-251
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1180-8_16against methodological separatism of the natural, social, and human sciences
pp.253-267
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1180-8_17pp.269-279
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1180-8_18pp.293-303
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1180-8_20the role of parsimonious factors
pp.319-330
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1180-8_22information science and complexity
pp.331-343
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1180-8_23a call to arms
pp.347-365
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1180-8_24why it cannot do what it has been asked to do
pp.379-394
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1180-8_26pp.411-424
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1180-8_28Bell's condition of local causality mathematically "sharp and clean"
pp.425-450
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1180-8_29Hans Reichenbach on causality and probability (1915–1932)
pp.465-475
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1180-8_31pp.487-498
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1180-8_33the surprising Weberian roots to Milton Friedman's methodology
pp.533-543
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1180-8_37Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Dordrecht
Year: 2011
Pages: 548
Series: The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective
Series volume: 2
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-1180-8
ISBN (hardback): 978-94-007-1179-2
ISBN (digital): 978-94-007-1180-8
Full citation:
Dieks Dennis, Hartmann Stephan, Uebel Thomas, Weber Marcel, González Wenceslao J. (2011) Explanation, prediction, and confirmation. Dordrecht, Springer.