Pub Date : 2024-06-19DOI: 10.1080/02698595.2024.2351917
Daniele Oriti
We scan Paul K. Feyerabend's work in philosophy of physics and of science more generally for insights that could be useful for the contemporary debate on the foundations of quantum mechanics. We ta...
我们对保罗-费耶阿本德(Paul K. Feyerabend)在物理学和科学哲学方面的研究成果进行了扫描,以寻找对当代关于量子力学基础的讨论可能有用的见解。我们将...
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Pub Date : 2024-04-04DOI: 10.1080/02698595.2024.2336269
Chuanke Wei
Natural selection is a general process that operates in different populations. To characterise natural selection as a mechanism within the framework of the new mechanistic philosophy, it is require...
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Pub Date : 2024-02-23DOI: 10.1080/02698595.2024.2304487
Jens Harbecke, Jonas Grunau, Philip Samanek
Over the past three decades, the discourse on the mechanistic approach to scientific modelling and explanation has notably sidestepped the topic of simplicity and fit within the process of model se...
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Pub Date : 2024-01-31DOI: 10.1080/02698595.2024.2303181
Published in International Studies in the Philosophy of Science (Vol. 36, No. 4, 2023)
发表于《国际科学哲学研究》(第 36 卷第 4 期,2023 年)
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Pub Date : 2024-01-23DOI: 10.1080/02698595.2024.2303576
Christopher Pincock
Should the scientific realist admit that their realism involves what Chakravartty has called an epistemic stance? I argue that the realist should accept the need for a realist stance that licenses ...
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Pub Date : 2024-01-03DOI: 10.1080/02698595.2023.2298085
Marc Lange
Several philosophers have argued that ‘constraints’ constrain (and thereby explain) by virtue of being modally stronger than ordinary laws of nature. In this way, a constraint applies to all possib...
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Pub Date : 2023-12-27DOI: 10.1080/02698595.2023.2294465
Ruey-Lin Chen
This paper defends a Hackingian approach to the scientific realism debate by arguing against mainstream realists’ and antirealists’ common claim that no experimental arguments for the reality of po...
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Pub Date : 2023-12-14DOI: 10.1080/02698595.2023.2294455
Dalibor Makovník
James Woodward’s manipulationist counterfactual theory of explanation offers strong tools for an adequate approach to explanation endeavours. One of these tools is the notion of intervention, which...
詹姆斯-伍德沃德的 "操纵主义反事实解释理论"(manipulationist counterfactual theory of explanation)为我们提供了强有力的工具,使我们能够以适当的方式进行解释工作。其中一个工具就是干预的概念。
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Pub Date : 2023-12-06DOI: 10.1080/02698595.2023.2284624
Martin Carrier
The traditional mutual support of scientific progress and social advancement has given way to public reservation. Research is no longer considered worthwhile in general. Parts of the public have co...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-17DOI: 10.1080/02698595.2023.2280809
Janet A. Kourany
This paper concerns a project to right a wrong, an epistemic as well as social wrong. The wrong? Science was to serve all humankind; that is what Francis Bacon and the other founders of modern scie...
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