EPSA15 Selected Papers: The 5th conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association in Düsseldorf

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Overcoming Newman’s Objection....Pages 3-12
Case Studies, Selective Realism, and Historical Evidence....Pages 13-23
The Epistemic Indispensability of Understanding in Historiography....Pages 25-36
Building Bridges with the Right Tools: Modality and the Standard Model....Pages 37-47
Coordination and Measurement: What We Get Wrong About What Reichenbach Got Right....Pages 49-60
Abandoning the Realism Debate: Lessons from the Zymotic Theory of Disease....Pages 61-69
Continuity in Nature and in Mathematics: Du Châtelet and Boscovich....Pages 71-81
Unification through Confirmation....Pages 83-93
Conceptualizing Uncertainty: An Assessment of the Uncertainty Framework of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change....Pages 95-107
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Mechanisms and Reduction in Psychiatry....Pages 111-124
Three Aspects of Typicality in Multiverse Cosmology....Pages 125-136
Explanation, Unification, and Mechanisms....Pages 137-152
Symmetries and the Identity of Physical States....Pages 153-165
Are Causal Accounts of Explanation Always Useful? In the Case of Personality Trait Explanations They Are Probably Not....Pages 167-177
Mechanisms and Reduction in Organic Chemistry....Pages 179-189
The Representation of Computation in Physical Systems....Pages 191-204
A Frame-Based Approach for Operationalized Concepts....Pages 205-220
Building Integrated Explanatory Models of Complex Biological Phenomena: From Mill’s Methods to a Causal Mosaic....Pages 221-232
Bound States and the Special Composition Question....Pages 233-241
Boltzmannian Equilibrium in Stochastic Systems....Pages 243-254
Front Matter....Pages 255-255
Truthlikeness and the Problem of Measure Sensitivity....Pages 257-271
Confirmational Holism and the Amalgamation of Evidence....Pages 273-284
Generalized Confirmation and Relevance Measures....Pages 285-295
Imprecise Best System Chances....Pages 297-308
Quantitative Nomic Truth Approximation by Revising Models and Postulates....Pages 309-320
Scientific Rationality by Degrees....Pages 321-333
Propensities, Probabilities, and Experimental Statistics....Pages 335-345
Direct Inference from Imprecise Frequencies....Pages 347-358