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Author : Andoni Ibarra
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004457615
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Representations of Scientific Rationality written by Andoni Ibarra and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-03-13 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Nickles
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400989865
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Scientific Discovery, Logic, and Rationality written by Thomas Nickles and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is fast becoming a cliche that scientific discovery is being rediscovered. For two philosophical generations (that of the Founders and that of the Followers of the logical positivist and logical empiricist movements), discovery had been consigned to the domain of the intractable, the ineffable, the inscrutable. The philosophy of science was focused on the so-called context of justification as its proper domain. More recently, as the exclusivity of the logical reconstruc tion program in philosophy of science came under question, and as the critique of justification developed within the framework of logical and epistemological analysis, the old question of scientific discovery, which had been put on the back burner, began to emerge once again. Emphasis on the relation of the history of science to the philosophy of science, and attention to the question of theory change and theory replacement, also served to legitimate a new concern with the origins of scientific change to be found within discovery and invention. How welcome then to see what a wide range of issues and what a broad representation of philosophers and historians of science have been brought together in the present two volumes of the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science! For what these volumes achieve, in effect, is the continuation of a tradition which had once been strong in the philosophy of science - namely, that tradition which addressed the question of scientific discovery as a central question in the understanding of science.
Author : Patrick Suppes
Publisher : Stanford Univ Center for the Study
ISBN 13 : 9781575863337
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (633 download)
Download or read book Representation and Invariance of Scientific Structures written by Patrick Suppes and published by Stanford Univ Center for the Study. This book was released on 2002 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fundamental reason for using formal methods in the philosophy of science is the desirability of having a fixed frame of reference that may be used to organize the variety of doctrines at hand. This book—Patrick Suppes's major work, and the result of several decades of research—examines how set-theoretical methods provide such a framework, covering issues of axiomatic method, representation, invariance, probability, mechanics, and language, including research on brain-wave representations of words and sentences. This is a groundbreaking, essential text from a distinguished philosopher.
Author : W. Newton-Smith
Publisher : Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Rationality of Science written by W. Newton-Smith and published by Routledge & Kegan Paul Books. This book was released on 1981 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional philosophical accounts of the scientific enterprise represent it as a paradigm of institutionalized rationality. The scientist is held to possess a special method which he disinterestedly applied, generating an accumulation of scientific knowledge about the world, and the evolution of science is seen as being determined by the rational deliberations of scientists and not by psychological or sociological factors. More recently, various philosophers, historians and sociologists of science have held that this rational model is no longer tenable. Some have claimed that there is no such thing as a scientific method or scientific progress, and that theories are incommensurable and so there is no possibility of choice between alternative theories. The more extreme non-rationalists seek to explain scientific change exclusively in terms of psychological and sociological factors. In this book, the author explores the controversy between the two approaches and presents a strongly critical and independent view of both rationalists like Popper and Lakatos and non-rationalists such as Kuhn and Feyerabend. He goes on to develop his own account of the scientific enterprise--temperate rationalism, a vindication of the rationalist approach to science and of a realist construal of theories.--
Author : Marx W. Wartofsky
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400993579
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Models written by Marx W. Wartofsky and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marx Wartofsky has been working for many years within an unusual confluence of philosophical problems. He brings to these intersecting problems his comprehensive intelligence, at once imaginative and rigorous, analytic and historical. He is a philosopher's philosopher, but also Everyman's. Wartofsky is philosopher of the natural and the social sciences, of perception, esthetics and the creative arts, of the 18th century French and the 19th century Germans, of politics and morality, ofthe methods and morals of medicine, and it is plain, of all human existence. To a colleague, he seems Jack-of-all-philosophical-trades, and master of them too. The reader soon will learn that Wartofsky is a genial, lucid and relaxed philosophical companion, deeply serious but without noticeable anxiety. I need not highlight these selected epistemological papers gathered as, and about, Models, since Wartofsky's own introductory remarks are helpful and stimulating in that respect. I need only, after 21 years of friendship and collaboration with him, warn the reader to beware of how profound and provocative these papers will show themselves to be beneath their good-humored and swiftly-flowing surface. And I must publicly note the pleasure with which I welcome Marx Wartofsky's volume to our Boston Studies. Boston University R.S.C. Center for the Philosophy and History of Science September 1979 vii TABLE OF CONTENTS EDITORIAL PREFACE VII xi AC K NOWLEDGEMENTS xiii INTRODUCTION The Model Muddle: Proposals for an Immodest Realism 1.
Author : William M. Ramsey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521859875
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (598 download)
Download or read book Representation Reconsidered written by William M. Ramsey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-21 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Author : Roman Frigg
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783030451554
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Modelling Nature: An Opinionated Introduction to Scientific Representation written by Roman Frigg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2021-09-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph offers a critical introduction to current theories of how scientific models represent their target systems. Representation is important because it allows scientists to study a model to discover features of reality. The authors provide a map of the conceptual landscape surrounding the issue of scientific representation, arguing that it consists of multiple intertwined problems. They provide an encyclopaedic overview of existing attempts to answer these questions, and they assess their strengths and weaknesses. The book also presents a comprehensive statement of their alternative proposal, the DEKI account of representation, which they have developed over the last few years. They show how the account works in the case of material as well as non-material models; how it accommodates the use of mathematics in scientific modelling; and how it sheds light on the relation between representation in science and art. The issue of representation has generated a sizeable literature, which has been growing fast in particular over the last decade. This makes it hard for novices to get a handle on the topic because so far there is no book-length introduction that would guide them through the discussion. Likewise, researchers may require a comprehensive review that they can refer to for critical evaluations. This book meets the needs of both groups.
Author : Amos Morris-Reich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135900922
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book The Quest for Jewish Assimilation in Modern Social Science written by Amos Morris-Reich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-01-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the connection between the nineteenth century transformation of the human sciences into the social sciences and notions of Jewish assimilation and integration, demonstrating that the quest for Jewish assimilation is linked to and built into the conceptual foundations of modern social science disciplines.
Author : David J. Tietge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781602350694
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Rational Rhetoric written by David J. Tietge and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tietge places popular representations of science and scientific discourse under the terministic lenses of rhetorical theory, cultural studies, and language theory.
Author : Howard Sankey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042977611X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Rationality, Relativism and Incommensurability written by Howard Sankey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-24 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1997, this volume brings together a series of essays on the philosophy of science and responds to the "crisis of rationality" which evolved from the denial of both a stable methodology and a common language for science. Howard Sankey holds that important insights about scientific methodology and rationality may be gleaned from the historical approach, from which the existence of profound conceptual change in science, as well as the absence of a neutral observation language, are important findings. Half of Sankey’s essays concentrate specifically on the thesis that alternative scientific theories are incommensurable due to semantic differences between the vocabulary in which they are expressed. Several others seek to derive a new way of thinking about scientific rationality from the historical critique of the idea of a fixed scientific method. Still others demonstrate how some seemingly relativistic themes of the historical approach may be embraced in a non-relativistic manner within the context of a pluralistic and naturalistic theory of scientific methodology and rationality.
Author : Joseph C. Pitt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9789027724175
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (241 download)
Download or read book Rational Changes in Science written by Joseph C. Pitt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1987-06-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE PROBLEMS OF SCIENTIFIC RATIONALITY Fashion is a fickle mistress. Only yesterday scientific rationality enjoyed considerable attention, consideration, and even reverence among phi losophers; "but today's fashion leads us to despise it, and the matron, rejected and abandoned as Hecuba, complains; modo maxima rerum, tot generis natisque potens - nunc trahor exui, inops", to cite Kant for our purpose, who cited Ovid for his. Like every fashion, ours also has its paradoxical aspects, as John Watkins correctly reminds in an essay in this volume. Enthusiasm for science was high among philosophers when significant scientific results were mostly a promise, it declined when that promise became an undeniable reality. Nevertheless, as with the decline of any fashion, even the revolt against scientific rationality has some reasonable grounds. If the taste of the philosophical community has changed so much, it is not due to an incident or a whim. This volume is not about the history of and reasons for this change. Instead, it provides a view of the new emerging image of scientific rationality in both its philosophical and historical aspects. In particular, the aim of the contributions gathered here is to focus on the concept around which the discussions about rationality have mostly taken place: scientific change.
Author : Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319437844
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)
Download or read book Representation and Reality in Humans, Other Living Organisms and Intelligent Machines written by Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book enriches our views on representation and deepens our understanding of its different aspects. It arises out of several years of dialog between the editors and the authors, an interdisciplinary team of highly experienced researchers, and it reflects the best contemporary view of representation and reality in humans, other living beings, and intelligent machines. Structured into parts on the cognitive, computational, natural sciences, philosophical, logical, and machine perspectives, a theme of the field and the book is building and presenting networks, and the editors hope that the contributed chapters will spur understanding and collaboration between researchers in domains such as computer science, philosophy, logic, systems theory, engineering, psychology, sociology, anthropology, neuroscience, linguistics, and synthetic biology.
Author : Deborah K Heikes
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137591714
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Rationality, Representation, and Race written by Deborah K Heikes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Enlightenment, rationality becomes not a property belonging to all humans but something that one must achieve. This transformation has the effect of excluding non-whites and non-males from the domain of reason. Heikes seeks to uncover the source of this exclusion, which she argues stems from the threat of subjectivism inherent in modern thinking. As an alternative, she considers post-Cartesian reactions of modern representationalism as well as ancient Greek understandings of mind as simply one part of a functionally diverse soul. In the end, she maintains that treating rationality as an evolutionarily situated virtue concept allows for an understanding of rationality that recognizes diversity and that grounds substantive moral concepts.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900445778X
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Rationality of Theism written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-16 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Hilpinen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400990324
Total Pages : 259 pages
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Download or read book Rationality in Science written by R. Hilpinen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume is a product of an international research program 'Foundations of Science and Ethics', launched in 1976 by the Inter University Centre of Post-Graduate Studies, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, with the financial support of the V olkswagen Foundation. According to the outline ofthe program, formulated in 1976 by a committee consisting of Professors Dagfinn F~llesdal, Rudolf Haller (coordinator), Lorenz Kruger, Karel Lambert, Keith Lehrer, Kuno Lorenz, Gunther Patzig, Ivan Supek and Paul Weingartner, its general purpose was to investigate the interplay of various internal and external factors in the development of science. Generous financial support from the Volkswagen Foundation made it possible to plan four annual conferences, the first of which was held in Dubrovnik on March 6-12, 1978. This volume contains the majority of the papers presented in the first Dubrovnik conference; the main theme of this conference was 'Rationality in Science and Ethics' (Some of the papers appear here in a thoroughly revised form. ) Further results of the research program will be discussed in three other conferences, to be held in Dubrovnik in 1979-1981; the papers presented in these conferences will be published separately. Professor Rudolf Haller of the University of Graz assumed the burden of the practical planning and organization of the first conference (as well as that of the other three conferences). I wish to thank Professor Haller on behalf of all participants for carrying out this demanding and time-consuming task.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004359478
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Rationality and Decision Making written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume Rationality and Decision Making: From Normative Rules to Heuristics analyses rational and irrational decision making by individuals as well as by groups. The contributors adopt methodological, logical, linguistic, psychological, historical, and evolutionary perspectives.
Author : Wenceslao J. Gonzalez
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400778384
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Bas van Fraassen’s Approach to Representation and Models in Science written by Wenceslao J. Gonzalez and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-02-19 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes Bas van Fraassen’s characterization of representation and models in science. In this regard, it presents the philosophical coordinates of his approach and pays attention to his structural empiricism as a framework for his views on scientific representations and models. These are developed here through two new contributions made by van Fraassen. In addition, there are analyses of the relation between models and reality in his approach, where the complexity of this conception is considered in detail. Furthermore, there is an examination of scientific explanation and epistemic values judgments. This volume includes a wealth of bibliographical information on his philosophy and relevant philosophical issues. Bas van Fraassen is a key figure in contemporary philosophy of science, as the prestigious Hempel Award shows. His views on scientific representation offer new ideas on how it should be characterized, and his conception of models shows a novelty that goes beyond other empiricists’ approaches of recent times. Both aspects — the characterization of scientific representation and the conception of models in science — are part of a deliberate attempt to forge a “structural empiricism,” an alternative to structural realism based on an elaborated version of empiricism.
