EPSA11 Perspectives and Foundational Problems in Philosophy of Science (The European Philosophy of Science Association Proceedings Book 2)

This book contains a selection of original conference papers covering all major fields in the philosophy of science, that have been organized into themes. The first section of this volume begins with the formal philosophy of science, moves on to idealization, representation and explanation and then finishes with realism, anti-realism and special science laws. The second section covers the philosophy of the physical sciences, looking at quantum mechanics, spontaneous symmetry breaking, the philosophy of space and time, linking physics and metaphysics and the philosophy of chemistry. Further themed sections cover the philosophies of the life sciences, the cognitive sciences and the social sciences. Readers will find that this volume provides an excellent overview of the state of the art in the philosophy of science, as practiced in different European countries. ​ Front Matter....Pages i-x Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Evidence, Argument and Prediction....Pages 3-17 Models, Simulations, and Analogical Inference....Pages 19-27 Intuitionistic Semantics for Fitch’s Paradox....Pages 29-39 Correlation and Truth....Pages 41-54 The Limits of Probabilism....Pages 55-65 Front Matter....Pages 67-67 How Organization Explains....Pages 69-80 Mechanistic Explanation: Asymmetry Lost....Pages 81-91 Deflationism on Scientific Representation....Pages 93-102 Idealization in Physics Modeling....Pages 103-113 Explanatory Models Versus Predictive Models: Reduced Complexity Modeling in Geomorphology....Pages 115-128 Front Matter....Pages 129-129 The Ultimate Argument Against Convergent Realism and Structural Realism: The Impasse Objection....Pages 131-139 Doing Away with the No Miracles Argument....Pages 141-151 Theory-Parts for Scientific Realists....Pages 153-165 Natural Kinds and Concept Eliminativism....Pages 167-179 Against the Statistical Account of Special Science Laws....Pages 181-192 Front Matter....Pages 193-193 How to Use Quantum Theory Locally to Explain EPR-Bell Correlations....Pages 195-205 Modal Interpretations and Consecutive Measurements....Pages 207-217 Why I Am Not an Everettian....Pages 219-228 The Emergence of Integrability in Gauge Theories....Pages 229-238 Front Matter....Pages 239-239 Model Landscapes in the Higgs Sector....Pages 241-252 Front Matter....Pages 239-239 Practical Unification of Solid-State and Particle Physics in the Construction of the Higgs Mechanism....Pages 253-264 Front Matter....Pages 265-265 A Critical Note on Time in the Multiverse....Pages 267-279 A New View of “Fundamentality” for Time Asymmetries in Modern Physics....Pages 281-292 Front Matter....Pages 293-293 How to Combine and Not to Combine Physics and Metaphysics....Pages 295-305 How (Not) To Be a Humean Structuralist....Pages 307-318 Front Matter....Pages 319-319 What Does Hydrogen Bonding Say About the Nature of the Chemical Bond?....Pages 321-330 The Metaphysics of Molecular Structure....Pages 331-342 Front Matter....Pages 343-343 Description, Explanation, and Explanatory Depth in Developmental Biology....Pages 345-356 Synthetic Genomics and the Causal Role of Genes: What has been Shown and Why it Matters....Pages 357-367 Front Matter....Pages 369-369 Eschewing Entities: Outlining a Biology Based Form of Structural Realism....Pages 371-381 Must Structural Realism Cover the Special Sciences?....Pages 383-390 Front Matter....Pages 391-391 Principles Versus Mechanisms in Cognitive Science....Pages 393-403 Computationalism, Connectionism, Dynamicism and Beyond: Looking for an Integrated Approach to Cognitive Science....Pages 405-416 Qualia Change and Colour Science....Pages 417-428 Explanatory Coherence, Partial Truth and Diagnostic Validity in Psychiatry....Pages 429-440 Front Matter....Pages 441-441 Performativity: Saving Austin from MacKenzie....Pages 443-453 Beyond Motivation and Metaphor: ‘Scientific Passions’ and Anthropomorphism....Pages 455-466 A Way of Saving Normative Epistemology? Scientific Knowledge Without Standpoint Theories....Pages 467-477 The Democratic Control of the Scientific Control of Politics....Pages 479-491 Harm, Reciprocity and the Moral Domain....Pages 493-502 Back Matter....Pages 503-510 Edited By Vassilios Karakostas, Dennis Dieks. Conference Proceedings.