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New Directions in the Philosophy of Science

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Things in Possible Experiments: Case-Intensional Logic as a Framework for Tracing Things from Case to Case
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    Chapter 2 The Proof Is in the Process: A Preamble for a Philosophy of Computer-Assisted Mathematics
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    Chapter 3 The Future Role of Computation in Science and Society
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    Chapter 4 In No Categorical Terms: A Sketch for an Alternative Route to a Humean Interpretation of Laws
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    Chapter 5 The Undeniable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Special Sciences
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    Chapter 6 Comment on “The Undeniable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Special Sciences”
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    Chapter 7 Explanatory Pluralism in Psychiatry: What Are We Pluralists About, and Why?
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    Chapter 8 Pluralists About Pluralism? Different Versions of Explanatory Pluralism in Psychiatry
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    Chapter 9 Shifting Attention from Theory to Practice in Philosophy of Biology
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    Chapter 10 Living Instruments and Theoretical Terms: Xenografts as Measurements in Cancer Research
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    Chapter 11 Developmental Explanation
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    Chapter 12 What Counts as Causation in Physics and Biology?
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    Chapter 13 Challenges to Characterizing the Notion of Causation Across Disciplinary Boundaries: Comment on Faye
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    Chapter 14 Just Complexity
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    Chapter 15 Confessions of a Complexity Skeptic
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    Chapter 16 New Directions in the Philosophy of Biology: A New Taxonomy of Functions
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    Chapter 17 How Essentialism Properly Understood Might Reconcile Realism and Social Constructivism
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    Chapter 18 Social Construction – By Whom?
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    Chapter 19 Is Social Constructivism Soluble in Critical Naturalism?
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    Chapter 20 Scientific Representation, Reflexivity, and the Possibility of Constructive Realism
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    Chapter 21 The Limits of Realism in the Philosophy of Social Science
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    Chapter 22 The Social Re-Construction of Agency
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    Chapter 23 Local Realism: An Analysis of Social Choice Theory
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    Chapter 24 Objectivity and Visual Practices in Science and Art
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    Chapter 25 Cultural Information: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
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    Chapter 26 Introducing QBism
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    Chapter 27 A Critic Looks at QBism
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    Chapter 28 Elementary Particles and Metaphysics
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    Chapter 29 Assessing the Status of the Common Cause Principle
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    Chapter 30 A Note on Strong Causal Closedness and Completability of Classical Probability Spaces
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    Chapter 31 Artificial Examples of Empirical Equivalence
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    Chapter 32 The Measurement Problem Is Your Problem Too
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    Chapter 33 Pros and Cons of Physics in Logics
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    Chapter 34 How Fundamental Physics Represents Causality
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    Chapter 35 Anchoring Causal Connections in Physical Concepts
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    Chapter 36 Good Just Isn’t Good Enough: Humean Chances and Boltzmannian Statistical Physics
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    Chapter 37 Unsharp Humean Chances in Statistical Physics: A Reply to Beisbart
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    Chapter 38 Noncommutative Causality in Algebraic Quantum Field Theory
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    Chapter 39 Lost in Translation: A Comment on “Noncommutative Causality in Algebraic Quantum Field Theory”
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    Chapter 40 Causal Probabilities in GRW Quantum Mechanics
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    Chapter 41 Physics, Metaphysics and Mathematics
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    Chapter 42 Where Would We Be Without Counterfactuals?
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    Chapter 43 Pragmatism and European Philosophy: William James and the French-Italian Connection
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    Chapter 44 New Directions in the Philosophy of Science
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    Chapter 45 New Prospects for Pragmatism: Ramsey’s Constructivism
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    Chapter 46 Critical Realism in Perspective: Remarks on a Neglected Current in Neo-Kantian Epistemology
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    Chapter 47 Realism Without Mirrors
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    Chapter 48 The Continuing Relevance of Nineteenth-Century Philosophy of Psychology: Brentano and the Autonomy of Psychological Methods
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    Chapter 49 On the Logical Positivists’ Philosophy of Psychology: Laying a Legend to Rest
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    Chapter 50 Epistemology Historicized: The French Tradition
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    Chapter 51 Commentary on Anastasios Brenner’s “Epistemology Historicized”
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    Chapter 52 History and Philosophy of Science: Between Description and Construction
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Title
New Directions in the Philosophy of Science
Published by
Springer Nature, January 2014
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-04382-1
ISBNs
978-3-31-904381-4, 978-3-31-904382-1
Authors

crawford, sean

Editors

Maria Carla Galavotti, Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao J. Gonzalez, Stephan Hartmann, Thomas Uebel, Marcel Weber

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Country Count As %
Japan 1 2%
Canada 1 2%
Unknown 50 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 35%
Researcher 12 23%
Student > Master 7 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 8%
Professor 2 4%
Other 5 10%
Unknown 4 8%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Philosophy 20 38%
Psychology 6 12%
Social Sciences 6 12%
Arts and Humanities 4 8%
Physics and Astronomy 3 6%
Other 9 17%
Unknown 4 8%