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E-raamat: Scientific Explanation and Methodology of Science: Selected Essays from the International Conference on Sems 2012 [World Scientific e-raamat]

Edited by (Univ Of Florida, Usa, Shanxi Univ & Tsinghua Univ, China), Edited by (Shanxi Univ, China)
  • Formaat: 268 pages
  • Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2014
  • Kirjastus: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
  • ISBN-13: 9789814596640
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  • Formaat: 268 pages
  • Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2014
  • Kirjastus: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
  • ISBN-13: 9789814596640
Teised raamatud teemal:
This volume contains the contributed papers of invitees to SEMS 2012 who have also given talks at the conference. The invitees are experts in philosophy of science and technology from Asia (besides China), Australia, Europe, Latin America, North America, as well as from within China.The papers in this volume represent the latest work of each researcher in his or her expertise; and as a result, they give a good representation of the cutting-edge researches in diverse areas in different parts of the world.
Preface v
Organization vii
List of Participants
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The Directedness of Time in Classical Cosmology
1(15)
Andreas Bartels
Daniel Wohlfarth
Explanation, Special Relativity, and Presentism
16(16)
Katherine Brading
A Muse of Fire
32(13)
James Robert Brown
SSK or ESW? --- The Bloor-Lynch Debate Revisited
45(13)
Kai-Yuan Cheng
Model Error and Ensemble Forecasting: A Cautionary Tale
58(9)
Seamus Bradley
Roman Frigg
Hailiang Du
Leonard A. Smith
The Contextualist Basis of Scientific Explanation
67(13)
Guichun Guo
On a Bottom-Up Approach to Scientific Discovery
80(18)
Xiang Huang
The New Ignorance
98(9)
Janet A. Kourany
Models, Fiction, and Fictional Models
107(21)
Chuang Liu
A Contextualist Interpretation of Mathematics
128(10)
Jie Liu
Understanding as Integration of Heterogeneous Representations
138(10)
Sergio F. Martinez
Approximation of Laws
148(8)
Ilkka Niiniluoto
Science, Sex, and Pictures: Reflections on van Fraassen's Use of Perspectival Representations
156(14)
Kathleen Okruhlik
Bayesianism versus Confirmation
170(6)
Michael Strevens
The Equivalent Transformation between Non-Truth-Function and Truth-Function
176(36)
Xiao-Long Wan
Ming-Yi Chen
Mechanism and Productive Event
212(15)
Zhu Xu
Social Science and the Bayesian Probability Explanation Model
227(13)
Jie Yin
Lei Zhao
Choice of Units and the Causal Markov Condition
240
Jiji Zhang
Peter Spirtes