EPSA Philosophy of Science: Amsterdam 2009

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Modeling Strategies for Measuring Phenomena In- and Outside the Laboratory....Pages 1-11
Mating Intelligence, Moral Virtues, and Methodological Vices....Pages 13-22
Rejected Posits, Realism, and the History of Science....Pages 23-32
Explanation and Modelization in a Comprehensive Inferential Account....Pages 33-42
Standards in History: Evaluating Success in Stem Cell Experiments....Pages 43-53
Modeling Scientific Evidence: The Challenge of Specifying Likelihoods....Pages 55-65
Persistence in Minkowski Space-Time....Pages 67-75
Genuine versus Deceptive Emotional Displays....Pages 77-88
Tales of Tools and Trees: Phylogenetic Analysis and Explanation in Evolutionary Archaeology....Pages 89-100
Sustaining a Rational Disagreement....Pages 101-110
Philosophical Accounts of Causal Explanation and the Scientific Practice of Psychophysics....Pages 111-121
Meta-analysis as Judgment Aggregation....Pages 123-135
The Uninvited Guest: ‘Local Realism’ and the Bell Theorem....Pages 137-149
On Tins and Tin-Openers....Pages 151-160
The Problem of Identifying the System and the Environment in the Phenomenon of Decoherence....Pages 161-174
Formal and Material Theories in Philosophy of Science: A Methodological Interpretation....Pages 175-185
Axiological Scientific Realism and Methodological Prescription....Pages 187-197
Consensus Formation in Networked Groups....Pages 199-215
Mirror Neurons and Social Cognition: An Expanded Simulationist Framework....Pages 217-226
Identity in Physics: Properties, Statistics and the (Non-)Individuality of Quantum Particles....Pages 227-237
The Fiber Bundle at the Gates of Metaphysics. Challenging Tim Maudlin’s Proposal....Pages 239-251
The Phase Rule and the Notion of Substance....Pages 253-262
Pattern and Process in Evo-Devo: Descriptions and Explanations....Pages 263-274
Three Conceptions of Explaining How Possibly—and One Reductive Account....Pages 275-286
An Improper Introduction to Epistemic Utility Theory....Pages 287-301
Defending Underdetermination or Why the Historical Perspective Makes a Difference....Pages 303-313
An Information Semantic Account of Scientific Models....Pages 315-327
Scientific Realism and Historical Evidence: Shortcomings of the Current State of Debate....Pages 329-340
Venetian Sea Levels, British Bread Prices and the Principle of the Common Cause: A Reassessment....Pages 341-354
Coincidences and How to Reason About Them....Pages 355-374
Stopping Rules and Data Monitoring in Clinical Trials....Pages 375-386
Two Comments on the Common Cause Principle in Algebraic Quantum Field Theory....Pages 387-402
The Role of Unification in Explanations of Facts....Pages 403-413
Calibration....Pages 415-425
Observational Equivalence of Deterministic and Indeterministic Descriptions and the Role of Different Observations....Pages 427-439
Demarcating Presentism....Pages 441-450
Back Matter....Pages 451-457