EPSA Epistemology and Methodology of Science : Launch of the European Philosophy of Science Association

These volumes collect a selection of papers presented at the Founding Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association meeting in Madrid. The volumes provide an excellent overview of the state of the art in philosophy of science as practised nowadays in different European countries. Front Matter....Pages i-x Naturalism and the Scientific Status of the Social Sciences....Pages 1-12 Reconsidering Gilbert’s Account of Social Norms....Pages 13-22 Theories for Use: On the Bearing of Basic Science on Practical Problems....Pages 23-33 Structural Realism as a Form of Humility....Pages 35-45 Approaching the Truth via Belief Change in Propositional Languages....Pages 47-62 Can Graphical Causal Inference Be Extended to Nonlinear Settings?....Pages 63-72 Towards a Grammar of Bayesian Confirmation....Pages 73-93 Epistemic Accuracy and Subjective Probability....Pages 95-105 Interpretation in the Natural Sciences....Pages 107-117 Multiple Realizability and Mind-Body Identity....Pages 119-127 Why Should Philosophers of Science Pay Attention to the Commercialization of Academic Science?....Pages 129-138 Some Consequences of the Pragmatist Approach to Representation....Pages 139-148 The Gray Area for Incorruptible Scientific Research....Pages 149-164 Epistemic Replacement Relativism Defended....Pages 165-175 Models and Truth....Pages 177-187 Theory Change, Truthlikeness, and Belief Revision....Pages 189-199 Mechanisms: Are Activities up to the Job?....Pages 201-209 Why the Model-Theoretic View of Theories Does Not Adequately Depict the Methodology of Theory Application....Pages 211-220 A Deflationary, Neo-Mertonian Critique of Academic Patenting....Pages 221-231 ‘I Want to Look Like a Lady, Not Like a Factory Worker’ Rose Rand, a Woman Philosopher of the Vienna Circle....Pages 233-244 Natural Kind Theory as a Tool for Philosophers of Science....Pages 245-254 Whence Ontological Structural Realism?....Pages 255-265 Local, General and Universal Prediction Methods: A Game-Theoretical Approach to the Problem of Induction....Pages 267-278 Multiple Contraction Revisited....Pages 279-288 Statistical Inference Without Frequentist Justifications....Pages 289-297 Carnap and the Perils of Ramseyfication....Pages 299-310 Naturalizing Meaning Through Epistemology: Some Critical Notes....Pages 311-321 What Games Do Scientists Play? Rationality and Objectivity in a Game-Theoretic Approach to the Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge....Pages 323-332 Back Matter....Pages 333-341 This volume collects papers presented at the Founding Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association meeting, held November 2007. It provides an excellent overview of the state of the art in philosophy of science in different European countries. v. 1. EPSA epistemology and methodology of science v. 2. EPSA philosophical issues in the sciences.