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  • Science as It Could Have Been

    Discussing the Contingency/Inevitability Problem

    Could all or part of our taken-as-established scientific conclusions, theories, experimental data, ontological commitments, and so forth have been significantly different? Science as It Could Have Been focuses on a crucial issue that contemporary science studies have often neglected: the issue of contingency within science. It considers a number of case studies, past and present, from a wide range ... Leer más

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  • Science after the Practice Turn in the Philosophy, History, and Social Studies of Science

    Series series Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
    In the 1980s, philosophical, historical and social studies of science underwent a change which later evolved into a turn to practice. Analysts of science were asked to pay attention to scientific practices in meticulous detail and along multiple dimensions, including the material, social and psychological. Following this turn, the interest in scientific practices continued to increase and had an ... Leer más

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  • Characterizing the Robustness of Science

    After the Practice Turn in Philosophy of Science

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Mature sciences have been long been characterized in terms of the “successfulness”, “reliability” or “trustworthiness” of their theoretical, experimental or technical accomplishments. Today many philosophers of science talk of “robustness”, often without specifying in a precise way the meaning of this term. This lack of clarity is the cause of frequent misunderstandings, since all these notions, ... Leer más

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Science

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    This handbook provides both an overview of state-of-the-art scholarship in philosophy of science, as well as a guide to new directions in the discipline. Section I contains broad overviews of the main lines of research and the state of established knowledge in six principal areas of the discipline, including computational, physical, biological, psychological and social sciences, as well as general ... Leer más

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  • Gilbert Simondon

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    de Simon Mills ...
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  • Computable Foundations for Economics

    Series series Routledge Advances in Experimental and Computable Economics
    Computable Foundations for Economics is a unified collection of essays, some of which are published here for the first time and all of which have been updated for this book, on an approach to economic theory from the point of view of algorithmic mathematics. By algorithmic mathematics the author means computability theory and constructive mathematics. This is in contrast to orthodox mathematical ... Leer más

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  • Realism for Realistic People

    A New Pragmatist Philosophy of Science

    de Hasok Chang ...
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  • The Philosophy of Science: A Companion

    A Companion

    Series series Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science
    Philosophy of science studies the methods, theories, and concepts used by scientists. It mainly developed as a field in its own right during the twentieth century and is now a diversified and lively research area. This book surveys the current state of the discipline by focusing on central themes like confirmation of scientific hypotheses, scientific explanation, causality, the relationship ... Leer más

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  • The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science

    Edición de Martin Curd, Stathis Psillos ...
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  • Theory and Reality

    An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Second Edition

    How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is “really” like? What makes it different from other ways of understanding the universe? In Theory and Reality, Peter Godfrey-Smith addresses these questions by taking the reader on a grand tour of more than a hundred years of debate about science. The result is a completely accessible introduction to the main themes of the philosophy of ... Leer más

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