Recent Developments in the Philosophy of Science: EPSA13 Helsinki (European Studies in Philosophy of Science Book 1)

This volume showcases the best of recent research in the philosophy of science. A compilation of papers presented at the EPSA 13, it explores a broad distribution of topics such as causation, truthlikeness, scientific representation, gender-specific medicine, laws of nature, science funding and the wisdom of crowds. Papers are organised into headings which form the structure of the book. Readers will find that it covers several major fields within the philosophy of science, from general philosophy of science to the more specific philosophy of physics, philosophy of chemistry, philosophy of the life sciences, philosophy of psychology, and philosophy of the social sciences and humanities, amongst others. This volume provides an excellent overview of the state of the art in the philosophy of science, as practiced in different European countries and beyond. ​It will appeal to researchers with an interest in the philosophical underpinnings of their own discipline, and to philosophers who wish to explore the latest work on the themes explored. Front Matter....Pages i-ix Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Coherence and (Likeness to) Truth....Pages 3-16 A Verisimilitudinarian Rebuttal of a Recent Attack Against Realism....Pages 17-25 Realistic Claims in Logical Empiricism....Pages 27-41 Patchworks of Laws and Partial Structures....Pages 43-54 Front Matter....Pages 55-55 Social Epistemology, Debate Dynamics, and Truth Approximation....Pages 57-69 Wise Crowds, Clever Meta-Inductivists....Pages 71-86 Is the Equal-Weight View Really Supported by Positive Crowd Effects?....Pages 87-98 Why the Realist-Instrumentalist Debate About Rational Choice Rests on a Mistake....Pages 99-109 Funding Science by Lottery....Pages 111-126 Front Matter....Pages 127-127 Researchers Building Nations: Under What Conditions Can Overtly Political Research Be Objective?....Pages 129-140 Against the Agnosticism-Argument for Value-Freedom....Pages 141-151 Front Matter....Pages 153-153 Learning About Constitutive Relations....Pages 155-167 Reconstituting Phenomena....Pages 169-181 Manipulating Spins: Causality and Decoherence....Pages 183-193 Front Matter....Pages 195-195 How Fundamental Physics Represents Causality....Pages 197-207 Local Causality and Complete Specification: A Reply to Seevinck and Uffink....Pages 209-226 Pragmatists and Purists on CPT Invariance in Relativistic Quantum Field Theories....Pages 227-242 Explanation in Quantum Chemistry....Pages 243-250 Are Chemical Kinds Natural Kinds?....Pages 251-261 Front Matter....Pages 263-263 Why Bertrand’s Paradox Is Not Paradoxical but Is Felt So....Pages 265-276 Front Matter....Pages 263-263 Revisiting Smale’s Fourteenth Problem to Discover Two Definitions of Chaos....Pages 277-291 Rudolf Carnap: Philosophy of Science as Engineering Explications....Pages 293-303 Robustness, Diversity of Evidence, and Probabilistic Independence....Pages 305-316 Front Matter....Pages 317-317 Why Does Water Boil? Fictions in Scientific Explanation....Pages 319-330 Scientific Representation, Denotation, and Fictional Entities....Pages 331-341 Front Matter....Pages 343-343 Non Inferiority Drug Trials and the Trade-offs in RCTs....Pages 345-355 Against Sex and Gender Dualism in Gender-Specific Medicine....Pages 357-367 Biological Essentialism Concerning the Species Category....Pages 369-380 Two Concepts of Emotional Expression....Pages 381-391 This volume showcases the best of recent research in the philosophy of science. A compilation of papers presented at the EPSA 13, it explores a broad distribution of topics such as causation, truthlikeness, scientific representation, gender-specific medicine, ℗llaws of nature, science funding and the wisdom of crowds. Papers are organised into headings which form the structure of the book. Readers will find that it covers several major fields within the philosophy of science, from general philosophy of science to the more specific philosophy of physics, philosophy of chemistry, philosophy of the life sciences, philosophy of psychology, and philosophy of the social sciences and humanities, amongst others. This volume provides an excellent overview of the state of the art in the philosophy of science, as practiced in different European countries and beyond. It will appeal to researchers with an interest in the philosophical underpinnings of their own discipline, and to philosophers who wish to explore the latest work on the themes explored