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The Need for Empirically-Led Synthetic Philosophy
paradigm philosophy of nature synthetic philosophy
2016/6/15
The problem of unifying knowledge represents the frontier between science and philosophy. Science approaches the problem analytically bottom-up whereas, prior to the end of the nineteenth century, phi...
The Robots of the Dawn of Experimental Philosophy of Mind
Robots of the Dawn Experimental Philosophy
2016/6/15
In this chapter, I consider two hypotheses that have informed recent work in experimental philosophy of mind. The first is a positive hypothesis put forward by Fiala, Arico, and Nichols (FAN): Categor...
From Philosophy of Science to Philosophy of Literature (and Back) via Philosophy of Mind:Philip Kitcher’s Philosophical Pendulum
Philip Kitcher Philosophy of Literature Philosophy of Science Emotions filosofía de la literatura filosofía de la ciencia emociones
2016/6/15
A recent focus of Philip Kitcher’s research has been, somewhat surprisingly in the light of his earlier work, the philosophical analyses of literary works and operas. Some may see a discontinuity in K...
First Edition of the Lullius Lectures:Kitcher's Reconstruction in the Philosophy of Science
Kitcher Raimundus Lullius Lectures SLMFCE Philosophy of Science Conferencias Raimundus Lullius Filosofía de la Ciencia
2016/6/13
This monographic section contains the three papers delivered by Philip Kitcher as Raimundus Lullius Lectures during the VII Conference of the Spanish Society of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of S...
Science and Philosophy:A Love-Hate Relationship
science&philosophy philosophy of science philosophy of nature paradigm method presuppositions ontology EPR quantum mechanics
2016/6/12
In this paper I review the problematic relationship between science and philosophy; in particular, I will address the question of whether science needs philosophy, and I will offer some positive (if i...
Epistemic Structural Realism and Poincare's Philosophy of Science
structural realism Poincare
2016/6/12
Recent discussions of structuralist approaches to scientific theories have stemmed primarily from Worrall's (1989), in which he defends a position (since characterized `epistemic structural realism') ...
Do Microbes Question Standard Thinking in the Philosophy of Biology?Critical Notice of John Dupré "Processes of Life–Essays in the Philosophy of Biology"
philosophy of biology microbes life organism cooperation
2016/5/31
Do Microbes Question Standard Thinking in the Philosophy of Biology?Critical Notice of John Dupré "Processes of Life–Essays in the Philosophy of Biology".
Newton’s Philosophy of Time
Newton Descartes Huygens mathematical time absolute time true time
2016/5/31
In this paper I explain what Newton means with the phrase “absolute, true, and mathematical time” (Principia, Scholium to the definitions) in order to discuss some of the philosophic issues that it gi...
“Spinoza and the Philosophy of Science:Mathematics,Motion,and Being”
Spinoza Motion Mechanics Philosophy of Science Mathematics
2016/5/31
This chapter argues that the standard conception of Spinoza as a fellow-travelling mechanical philosopher and proto-scientific naturalist is misleading. It argues, first, that Spinoza’s account of the...
From Kantian schematism to the system of experience’s invariants:the coordination of concepts and spatio-temporal objects in Cassirer’s philosophy
Cassirer Kant concept schema object causality
2016/5/31
This paper analyzes Cassirer's account of the coordination of concepts and spatio-temporal objects. We shall see that, in contradistinction to Kantian schematism, Cassirer maintains that this coordina...
Albert Einstein read philosophy. It was not an affectation of a celebrity-physicist trying to show his adoring public that he was no mere technician, but a cultured thinker. It was an interest in evid...
Poincare's impact on 20th century philosophy of science
Poincare underdetermination equivalent descriptions,implicit definition incommensurability
2016/5/27
Poincaré’s conventionalism has thoroughly transformed both the philosophy of science and the philosophy of mathematics. Not only proponents of conventionalism, such as the logical positivists, were in...
I observe that,as the physics side of the OPERA-anomaly story is apparently unfolding,there can still be motivation for philosophy of science to analyze the six months of madness physicists spent chas...
“Describing our Whole Experience”: The Statistical Philosophy of W.F.R. Weldon
biometry Mendelism Pearson, Karl positivism statistics Weldon, W. F. R.
2011/9/8
There are two motivations commonly ascribed to historical actors for taking up statistics: to reduce complicated data to a mean value (e.g., Quetelet), and to take account of diversity (e.g., Galton)....
On a Straw Man in the Philosophy of Science - A Defense of the Received View
received view, syntactic view, semantic view, axiomatization, explication
2011/9/8
I defend the Received View on scientific theories as developed by Carnap, Hempel, and Feigl against a number of criticisms based on misconceptions. First, I dispute the claim that the Received View de...