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EPSA Philosophy of Science: Amsterdam 2009

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2012

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Editors:
  1. Henk W. de Regt

    1. HV Amsterdam, Netherlands

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  2. Stephan Hartmann

    1. Tilburg, Netherlands

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  3. Samir Okasha

    1. Bristol, United Kingdom

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Part of the book series: The European Philosophy of Science Association Proceedings (EPSP, volume 1)

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This is a collection of high-quality research papers in the philosophy of science, deriving from papers presented at the second meeting of the European Philosophy of Science Association in Amsterdam, October 2009.

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Table of contents (36 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Modeling Strategies for Measuring Phenomena In- and Outside the Laboratory

    • Marcel Boumans
    Pages 1-11

  3. Mating Intelligence, Moral Virtues, and Methodological Vices

    • Tomislav Bracanovic
    Pages 13-22

  4. Rejected Posits, Realism, and the History of Science

    • Alberto Cordero
    Pages 23-32

  5. Explanation and Modelization in a Comprehensive Inferential Account

    • Xavier de Donato-Rodríguez, Jesús Zamora-Bonilla
    Pages 33-42

  6. Standards in History: Evaluating Success in Stem Cell Experiments

    • Melinda Fagan
    Pages 43-53

  7. Modeling Scientific Evidence: The Challenge of Specifying Likelihoods

    • Patrick Forber
    Pages 55-65

  8. Persistence in Minkowski Space-Time

    • Cord Friebe
    Pages 67-75

  9. Genuine versus Deceptive Emotional Displays

    • Jonathan Grose
    Pages 77-88

  10. Tales of Tools and Trees: Phylogenetic Analysis and Explanation in Evolutionary Archaeology

    • Wybo Houkes
    Pages 89-100

  11. Sustaining a Rational Disagreement

    • Christoph Kelp, Igor Douven
    Pages 101-110

  12. Philosophical Accounts of Causal Explanation and the Scientific Practice of Psychophysics

    • Tim Christian Kietzmann
    Pages 111-121

  13. Meta-analysis as Judgment Aggregation

    • Berna Kilinc
    Pages 123-135

  14. The Uninvited Guest: ‘Local Realism’ and the Bell Theorem

    • Federico Laudisa
    Pages 137-149

  15. On Tins and Tin-Openers

    • Michael Liston
    Pages 151-160

  16. The Problem of Identifying the System and the Environment in the Phenomenon of Decoherence

    • Olimpia Lombardi, Sebastian Fortin, Mario Castagnino
    Pages 161-174

  17. Formal and Material Theories in Philosophy of Science: A Methodological Interpretation

    • Alan C. Love
    Pages 175-185

  18. Axiological Scientific Realism and Methodological Prescription

    • Timothy D. Lyons
    Pages 187-197

  19. Consensus Formation in Networked Groups

    • Carlo Martini
    Pages 199-215

  20. Mirror Neurons and Social Cognition: An Expanded Simulationist Framework

    • John Michael
    Pages 217-226
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Editors and Affiliations

  • HV Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Henk W. de Regt

  • Tilburg, Netherlands

    Stephan Hartmann

  • Bristol, United Kingdom

    Samir Okasha

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