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IF 1.8 2区 哲学 Q1 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.102088
Mauricio Suárez
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Intertheoretical relationships based on three-model framework 基于三模型框架的理论间关系
IF 1.8 2区 哲学 Q1 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-10-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.102077
Kohei Morita
Intertheoretical relationships have been traditionally investigated through the notions of reduction and emergence. Recently, the focus has shifted towards the relationship between models for elaborating intertheoretical relationships in physics. This article demonstrates that three, rather than two, types of models are essential for elucidating some intertheoretical relationships. Beyond the conventional higher- and lower-level models, an intermediate-level model is crucial for establishing connections between the theories. This framework is not only applicable to some practical cases but also effectively captures the characteristics of two significant intertheoretical relationships: between classical and quantum mechanics, and between thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. By applying this framework to these cases, this study highlights both the similarity and the difference in these intertheoretical relationships.
传统上,理论间关系是通过还原和涌现的概念来研究的。最近,焦点已经转移到模型之间的关系,以阐述物理学中的理论间关系。本文论证了三种而不是两种类型的模型对于阐明某些理论间关系是必不可少的。除了传统的高级和低级模型之外,中级模型对于建立理论之间的联系至关重要。这一框架不仅适用于一些实际情况,而且有效地抓住了经典力学与量子力学、热力学与统计力学两种重要理论间关系的特点。通过将这一框架应用于这些案例,本研究突出了这些理论间关系的相似性和差异性。
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A pink lie in French medicine 法国医学中的粉红色谎言
IF 1.8 2区 哲学 Q1 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-10-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.102075
Juliette Ferry-Danini
This paper sets to explain how one of the most prescribed and sold pharmaceutical drugs in France – Spasfon (phloroglucinol), introduced on the French market in the 1960s, became and remained so successful in the absence of solid scientific evidence. Integrating the epistemology of ignorance and a feminist approach to the history of medicine, my goal is to understand how this case of ignorance was initially constructed and how it has maintained itself to this day. I argue that sexism is one key factor explaining how ignorance was constructed around this very popular – and incidentally pink – pharmaceutical drug.
这篇论文试图解释在没有可靠的科学证据的情况下,法国处方和销售最多的药物之一——Spasfon(间苯三酚)是如何在20世纪60年代进入法国市场的。将无知的认识论和女性主义方法整合到医学史中,我的目标是理解无知的案例最初是如何形成的,以及它是如何维持到今天的。我认为性别歧视是一个关键因素,可以解释人们是如何对这种非常受欢迎的——碰巧是粉红色的——药物产生无知的。
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IF 1.8 2区 哲学 Q1 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-10-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.102085
Chiara Ambrosio
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IF 1.8 2区 哲学 Q1 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-10-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.102086
Alexander Bird
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Meta-Empirical Theory Assessment in the cosmic controversy 宇宙争议中的元经验理论评估:关于暴胀的可行性。
IF 1.8 2区 哲学 Q1 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-10-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.102076
Beñat Monfort-Urkizu
Meta-Empirical theory Assessment (MEA) argues that the way in which contemporary physical theories are evaluated has changed due to the progressive distancing of theory from observation. Richard Dawid proposed three methodological arguments as a means of capturing this “new” way of meta-empirically assessing theories of fundamental physics. Inflationary cosmology exemplifies a case where empirical evidence is scarce. In this field, Dawid claims that the synergy of his three arguments can justify relying on the limited empirical evidence to support the theory’s viability. Based on the debate that arose from different interpretations of the Planck2013 satellite results, in this paper I examine what the “cosmic controversy” shows about MEA and vice versa. My central thesis is that MEA plays a legitimate role in theory confirmation within the early universe scenario. However, I argue that the inflation debate arose from methodological preconceptions — framed as a tension between empiricism and likelihoodism — to which MEA is not immune.
元经验理论评估(Meta-Empirical theory Assessment, MEA)认为,由于理论与观测的逐渐距离,当代物理理论的评估方式已经发生了变化。理查德·大卫提出了三个方法论论点,作为捕捉这种“新”方法的一种方法,即元经验评估基础物理理论。暴胀宇宙学就是一个缺乏经验证据的例子。在这个领域,大卫声称他的三个论点的协同作用可以证明依靠有限的经验证据来支持理论的可行性。基于对普朗克2013卫星结果的不同解释所产生的争论,在本文中,我研究了关于MEA的“宇宙争议”,反之亦然。我的中心论点是,MEA在早期宇宙场景的理论确认中起着合理的作用。然而,我认为,通货膨胀辩论源于方法论上的先入为主的观念——被框定为经验主义和可能性主义之间的紧张关系——而多边环境评估也不能幸免。
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Are Saudi classrooms ready for an interdisciplinarity that utilizes evolutionary biology in teaching fiction? 沙特的课堂是否已经准备好接受在小说教学中运用进化生物学的跨学科教学?
IF 1.8 2区 哲学 Q1 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-10-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.102074
Khadijah A. Aljabri
With the growing interest in updating different programs across Saudi universities so that they could allow for more interdisciplinary research, a question emerged regarding the manner by which literary programs are going to be restructured. As such, this research was tackled with the aim to find how a group of Saudi undergraduate students are going to respond to an engagement with science, specifically biology, in the teaching of fiction. The idea seemed particularly interesting considering the fact that science classes in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) do not endorse or engage with the theory of evolution in an overt manner. One reason why this is the case is that the theory of evolution is perceived as a blatant contradiction to the Islamic account of creation and the story of Adam and Eve. Psychology classes at the Kingdom's secondary schools are also approached in the same manner. While they do endorse the interactionist approach, they do not engage with any notions derived from evolutionary or biological psychology in any way. The research shows that there is a level of acceptance and even readiness among Saudi students regarding the employment of the bio-cultural approach or evolutionary literary theory in the teaching of literature. However, certain considerations need to be taken into account before opening the literary field up to the sciences in Saudi universities.
随着沙特各大学对更新不同课程的兴趣日益浓厚,这样他们就可以允许更多的跨学科研究,一个关于文学课程将如何重组的问题出现了。因此,这项研究的目的是找出一群沙特本科生在小说教学中对科学,特别是生物学的参与会有什么反应。考虑到沙特阿拉伯王国(KSA)的科学课程并不公开支持或参与进化论,这个想法似乎特别有趣。造成这种情况的一个原因是,进化论被认为是与伊斯兰教的创世论以及亚当和夏娃的故事公然矛盾的。王国中学的心理学课程也以同样的方式进行。虽然他们确实赞同互动主义的方法,但他们不以任何方式参与任何来自进化或生物心理学的概念。研究表明,沙特学生对在文学教学中使用生物文化方法或进化文学理论有一定程度的接受甚至准备。然而,在沙特大学向科学开放文学领域之前,需要考虑到某些因素。
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Nothing comes from nothing but the rho meson: The origin of the bootstrap concept in particle physics 除了介子,什么都不是从什么产生的:粒子物理学中自举概念的起源
IF 1.8 2区 哲学 Q1 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-10-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.102082
Alexander S. Blum , Jens Salomon
We present a historical and philosophical analysis of the bootstrap concept as it was first introduced in the context of particle physics by Geoffrey Chew and Stanley Mandelstam in the years 1959–1961. By providing a detailed contextual and technical analysis of the work of Chew and Mandelstam, we show that the circular causality implied by the term “bootstrap” was more than just metaphor and rhetoric, but was in fact deeply rooted in the general approach and the mathematical techniques brought to bear on the problem of high-energy scattering processes.
我们对自举概念进行了历史和哲学分析,因为它最初是由Geoffrey Chew和Stanley Mandelstam在1959-1961年间在粒子物理学的背景下引入的。通过对Chew和Mandelstam的工作进行详细的上下文和技术分析,我们表明,术语“bootstrap”所隐含的循环因果关系不仅仅是隐喻和修辞,而且实际上深深植根于一般方法和用于高能散射过程问题的数学技术。
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Between myth and history: von Neumann on consciousness in quantum mechanics 神话与历史之间:冯·诺伊曼论量子力学中的意识
IF 1.8 2区 哲学 Q1 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-10-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.102083
Federico Laudisa
The von Neumann attitude on such a deep interpretational question as the role of a human observer in order for the quantum description of measurement to be consistent has been long misrepresented. The large majority of the subsequent literature ascribed to von Neumann a radical view, according to which not only the collapse was in itself a truly physical process, but also the only way to accommodate it within a quantum description of a typical measurement was the introduction of human consciousness as a kind of ‘causal’ factor. Inspired by the work of reconstruction pursued by the phenomenological reading of the London-Bauer approach, started by Steven French more than twenty years ago, the account I propose substantiates a significantly more cautious attitude by von Neumann: the time seems then ripe to tell a more balanced story on the relation between the notion of consciousness and the foundations of quantum mechanics in the work of the first scientist – János von Neumann – who explicitly and rigorously addressed the implication of a really universal formulation of quantum physics.
冯·诺伊曼对人类观察者的作用这样一个深刻的解释性问题的态度,为了使测量的量子描述一致,长期以来一直被歪曲。随后的绝大多数文献都认为冯·诺伊曼的观点是激进的,根据他的观点,坍缩本身不仅是一个真正的物理过程,而且将其纳入典型测量的量子描述的唯一方法是将人类意识作为一种“因果”因素引入。20多年前,史蒂芬·弗兰奇(Steven French)开创了伦敦-鲍尔方法(London-Bauer approach),受其现象解读所追求的重建工作的启发,我提出的描述证实了冯·诺伊曼(von Neumann)一种明显更为谨慎的态度:在第一位科学家János冯·诺伊曼(von Neumann)的工作中,意识概念和量子力学基础之间的关系似乎已经成熟,他明确而严谨地阐述了量子物理学真正普遍公式的含义。
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On representation and similarity: The case of mouse models of cancer 论表征与相似性:癌症小鼠模型的案例
IF 1.8 2区 哲学 Q1 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Pub Date : 2025-10-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.102069
Martin Zach
According to the similarity account, scientists use models to represent their targets by utilizing similarities in certain respects and to certain degrees between a model and its target. According to the critics, however, representation is conceptually distinct from the notion of accurate representation, and rather than being the relation that grounds representation, similarity should be considered as setting a standard of accuracy. Based on the case study of research practices involved in using mouse models to study cancer, this paper argues that while the overarching skepticism regarding the similarity account may be justified, the role of similarity in specific contexts deserves attention. Indeed, it will be shown that similarity plays a significant role in determining whether a mouse model represents a particular aspect of cancer. Thus, authors dismissive of similarity grounding representation, while correct in the general picture, should take into consideration the role that similarity plays in deciding whether a model is or not a representation in concrete scientific practices.
根据相似性说,科学家利用模型和目标之间在某些方面和某种程度上的相似性来表示他们的目标。然而,根据批评者的说法,表征在概念上与准确表征的概念是不同的,相似性不应该作为表征的基础关系,而应该被视为设定准确性的标准。基于使用小鼠模型研究癌症的研究实践的案例研究,本文认为,尽管对相似性解释的总体怀疑可能是合理的,但相似性在特定背景下的作用值得关注。事实上,它将表明相似性在决定小鼠模型是否代表癌症的特定方面起着重要作用。因此,作者对相似性基础表征的不屑一顾,虽然在总体上是正确的,但应该考虑到相似性在决定一个模型在具体的科学实践中是否为表征时所起的作用。
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