New Directions in the Philosophy of Science

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Things in Possible Experiments: Case-Intensional Logic as a Framework for Tracing Things from Case to Case....Pages 3-14
The Proof Is in the Process: A Preamble for a Philosophy of Computer-Assisted Mathematics....Pages 15-33
The Future Role of Computation in Science and Society....Pages 35-44
In No Categorical Terms: A Sketch for an Alternative Route to a Humean Interpretation of Laws....Pages 45-61
The Undeniable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Special Sciences....Pages 63-73
Comment on “The Undeniable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Special Sciences”....Pages 75-84
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Explanatory Pluralism in Psychiatry: What Are We Pluralists About, and Why?....Pages 87-103
Pluralists About Pluralism? Different Versions of Explanatory Pluralism in Psychiatry....Pages 105-119
Shifting Attention from Theory to Practice in Philosophy of Biology....Pages 121-139
Living Instruments and Theoretical Terms: Xenografts as Measurements in Cancer Research....Pages 141-155
Developmental Explanation....Pages 157-172
What Counts as Causation in Physics and Biology?....Pages 173-189
Challenges to Characterizing the Notion of Causation Across Disciplinary Boundaries: Comment on Faye....Pages 191-201
Just Complexity....Pages 203-219
Confessions of a Complexity Skeptic....Pages 221-233
New Directions in the Philosophy of Biology: A New Taxonomy of Functions....Pages 235-251
Front Matter....Pages 253-253
How Essentialism Properly Understood Might Reconcile Realism and Social Constructivism....Pages 255-265
Social Construction – By Whom?....Pages 267-278
Is Social Constructivism Soluble in Critical Naturalism?....Pages 279-295
Scientific Representation, Reflexivity, and the Possibility of Constructive Realism....Pages 297-312
Front Matter....Pages 253-253
The Limits of Realism in the Philosophy of Social Science....Pages 313-322
The Social Re-Construction of Agency....Pages 323-338
Local Realism: An Analysis of Social Choice Theory....Pages 339-351
Objectivity and Visual Practices in Science and Art....Pages 353-368
Cultural Information: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell....Pages 369-382
Front Matter....Pages 383-383
Introducing QBism....Pages 385-402
A Critic Looks at QBism....Pages 403-416
Elementary Particles and Metaphysics....Pages 417-431
Assessing the Status of the Common Cause Principle....Pages 433-442
A Note on Strong Causal Closedness and Completability of Classical Probability Spaces....Pages 443-451
Artificial Examples of Empirical Equivalence....Pages 453-467
The Measurement Problem Is Your Problem Too....Pages 469-478
Pros and Cons of Physics in Logics....Pages 479-484
How Fundamental Physics Represents Causality....Pages 485-500
Anchoring Causal Connections in Physical Concepts....Pages 501-509
Good Just Isn’t Good Enough: Humean Chances and Boltzmannian Statistical Physics....Pages 511-529
Unsharp Humean Chances in Statistical Physics: A Reply to Beisbart....Pages 531-542
Noncommutative Causality in Algebraic Quantum Field Theory....Pages 543-553
Lost in Translation: A Comment on “Noncommutative Causality in Algebraic Quantum Field Theory”....Pages 555-560
Causal Probabilities in GRW Quantum Mechanics....Pages 561-576
Front Matter....Pages 383-383
Physics, Metaphysics and Mathematics....Pages 577-586
Front Matter....Pages 587-587
Where Would We Be Without Counterfactuals?....Pages 589-607
Pragmatism and European Philosophy: William James and the French-Italian Connection....Pages 609-625
European Pragmatism? Further Thoughts on the German and Austrian Reception of American Pragmatism....Pages 627-643
New Prospects for Pragmatism: Ramsey’s Constructivism....Pages 645-656
Critical Realism in Perspective: Remarks on a Neglected Current in Neo-Kantian Epistemology....Pages 657-673
Realism Without Mirrors....Pages 675-692
The Continuing Relevance of Nineteenth-Century Philosophy of Psychology: Brentano and the Autonomy of Psychological Methods....Pages 693-709
On the Logical Positivists’ Philosophy of Psychology: Laying a Legend to Rest....Pages 711-726
Epistemology Historicized: The French Tradition....Pages 727-736
Commentary on Anastasios Brenner’s “Epistemology Historicized”....Pages 737-746
History and Philosophy of Science: Between Description and Construction....Pages 747-767
Back Matter....Pages 769-773