This volume contains the contributed papers of invitees to SEMS 2012 who have also given talks at the conference. The invitees are experts in philosophy of science and technology from Asia (besides China), Australia, Europe, Latin America, North America, as well as from within China. The papers in this volume represent the latest work of each researcher in his or her expertise; and as a result, they give a good representation of the cutting-edge researches in diverse areas in different parts of the world. Sample Chapter(s). The Directedness of Time in Classical Cosmology (218 KB). Contents: Th
| العنوان |
Scientific explanation and methodology of science : selected papers from the International Conference on SEMS 2012 Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China, 17-19 September 2012 / Guichun Guo, Chuang Liu, editors. |
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| الناشر |
Singapore : World Scientific |
| تاريخ الإصدار |
2014 |
| ملاحظات |
Description based upon print version of record. Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. English |
| رقم الرف |
Preface Organization List of Participants CONTENTS The Directedness of Time in Classical Cosmology 1. Searching for a Fundamental Explanation of the Directionality of Time 1.1. The anti-fundamentality view 1.2. The anthropic strategy: Asymmetry explained? 1.3. Accelerated expansion: Does it show the fundamentality of time-asymmetry? 2. A New Concept of Fundamentality 3. Applying the New Concept of Fundamentality to General Relativity 4. The CPT-Objection 5. Conclusion References Explanation, Special Relativity, and Presentism 1. Introduction 2. Explanation and Special Relativity3. Special Relativity Against Presentism 3.1. The standard argument 3.2. Explaining the present in Minkowski spacetime 4. What is Present and What is Real 5. A Law-Constitutive Approach to What is Real and What is Present 5.1. The dynamical laws and what is real 5.2. The dynamical laws and what is present 5.3. Escaping solipsism 6. Special Relativistic Presentism 7. Final Remarks A Muse of Fire 2. Challenges to Thought Experiments 3. Dennett's Intuition Pumps 4. Dennett and Conservative (Folk) Concepts 5. Weird SpacetimesBibliography SSK or ESW? - The Bloor-Lynch Debate Revisited I. Introduction II. The Rule-Following Problem in Kripke's Wittgenstein III. The Bloor-Lynch Debate: SSK or ESW IV. Kusch's Criticisms of Bloor and Lynch V. A Generic Semantic Account of Rule-Following Ascriptions: A Framework for Integrating SSK and ESW Acknowledgement Model Error and Ensemble Forecasting: A Cautionary Tale 2. Basic Dynamical Systems: the Toy Model 3. Initial Condition Ensemble Forecasting 4. Model Error 5. Weather and Climate Modelling 6. Ways Out? ReferencesThe Contextualist Basis of Scientific Explanation I. The Contextual Structure of Scientific Explanation II. The Contextual Elements of Scientific Explanation III. The Contextual Features of Scientific Explanation IV. Summary On a Bottom-Up Approach to Scientific Discovery II. A Bottom-Up Approach: Dignaga's Triplet (DT) III. DT and Semmelweis' Discovery IV. DT's Irreducible Epistemic Aspects I V. DT's Irreducible Rpistemic Aspects II VI. Conclusion The New Ignorance Models, Fiction, and Fictional Models 1. Introduction2. Why Most Models in Science Are Not Fictional 3. Typically Fictional Models in Science 4. Modeling the Unobservable 5. Fictional Models for the Unobservable? A Contextualist Interpretation of Mathematics Introduction 1. The Structure of Mathematical Contexts 2. The Integrity of Mathematical Contexts 3. A Mathematical Context Has a Boundary 4. The Recontextualization of Mathematics Understanding as Integration of Heterogeneous Representations Approximation of Laws 1. Kepler, Newton, and Approximate Explanation 2. Contexts of Approximation |
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1 online resource (268 p.) |
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الانكليزية |
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