Contemporary Perspectives In Philosophy And Methodology Of Science

Author : Wenceslao J. González
Publisher : Netbiblo
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Science
ISBN : 0972989234

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Contemporary Perspectives in Philosophy and Methodology of Science by Wenceslao J. González Pdf

Nowadays, philosophy and methodology of science appear as a combination of novelty and continuity. This blend is clear both in the general approaches to science (those thought of as any science) and in the specific perspectives on every science, either formal or empirical. There are new topics for philosophical reflection, such as key issues in philosophy of medicine and central problems raised by neuroscience. Thus, new contents have brought attention to aspects that previously went almost unnoticed. In addition, there are new angles for philosophical study, such as the repercussion of society on scientific activity (in aims, processes, and results). But the background of the main philosophical and methodological trends of the twentieth century is, in many ways, still in place.

Author : Mark A. Bedau,Carol E. Cleland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781108722063

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The Nature of Life by Mark A. Bedau,Carol E. Cleland Pdf

Introduces a broad range of scientific and philosophical issues about life through the original historical and contemporary sources.

Author : Emanuele Ratti,Thomas A. Stapleford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780190081737

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Science, Technology, and Virtues by Emanuele Ratti,Thomas A. Stapleford Pdf

Virtues have become a valuable and relevant resource for understanding modern science and technology. Scientific practice requires not only following prescribed rules but also cultivating judgment, building mental habits, and developing proper emotional responses. The rich philosophical traditions around virtue can provide key insights into scientific research, including understanding how daily practice shapes scientists themselves and how ethical dilemmas created by modern scientific research and technology should be navigated. Science, Technology, and Virtues gathers both new and eminent scholars to show how concepts of virtue can help us better understand, construct, and use the products of modern science and technology. Contributors draw from examples across philosophy, history, sociology, political science, and engineering to explore how virtue theory can help orient science and technology towards the pursuit of the good life. Split into four major sections, this volume covers virtues in science, technology, epistemology, and research ethics, with individual chapters discussing applications of virtues to scientific practice, the influence of virtue ethics on socially responsible research, and the concept of "failing well" within the scientific community. Rather than offer easy solutions, the essays in this volume instead illustrate how virtue concepts can provide a productive and illuminating perspective on two phenomena at the core of modern life. Fresh and thought-provoking, Science, Technology, and Virtues presents a pluralistic set of scholarship to show how virtue concepts can enrich our understanding of scientific research, guide the design and use of new technologies, and shape how we envision future scientists, engineers, consumers, and citizens.

Author : Alexander Rosenberg
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780415152815

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Philosophy of Science by Alexander Rosenberg Pdf

Identifies the philosophical problems that science raises through an examination of questions about its nature, methods and justification. A valuable introduction for science and philosophy students alike.

Author : Peter A. Morton,Myrto Mylopoulos
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781554814008

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Philosophy of Mind: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives – Third Edition by Peter A. Morton,Myrto Mylopoulos Pdf

This book introduces students to the principal issues in the philosophy of mind by tracing the history of the subject from Plato and Aristotle through to the present day. Over forty primary-source readings are included. Extensive commentaries from the editors are provided to guide student readers through the arguments and jargon and to offer necessary historical context for the readings. The new third edition examines some of the most exciting recent developments in the field, including advances in theories about the mind’s relation to action and agency. Previous editions of this book, published under the title A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind, have been praised and widely taught for more than two decades.

Author : Wenceslao J. González
Publisher : Netbiblo
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9788497455305

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New Methodological Perspectives on Observation and Experimentation in Science by Wenceslao J. González Pdf

Observation and experimentation are central topics of philosophy and methodology of science. The empirical sciences have commonly been associated to observational and experimental processes, because they have been considered crucial for testing the contents of these. Thus, observation and experimentation have received attention from different angles, and they have been historically relevant in the advancement of science. Their philosophical-methodological analysis includes some key aspects those related to axiological, epistemological and methodological issues. New Methodological Perspectives on Observation and Experimentation in Science deals with a classic topic that is seen from new angles. Its nine chapters seek “non-traditional” aspects, trying to extend the boundaries of this philosophical-methodological theme. They are presented in five sections: 1) A Philosophical-Methodological Context; 2) Experience and Scientific Observations; 3) Empirical Support and Experiments in Science; 4) Changes in the Framework on Observation and Experimentation; and 5) Enlarging the Philosophical Scope: Law and Ecology. Wenceslao J. Gonzalez is Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science (University of A Coruña). He is a Full Member of the International Academy for Philosophy of Sciences (AIPS), Visiting fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science (University of Pittsburgh) and a Team Leader of the European Science Foundation program entitled “The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective.” He has been named a Distinguished Researcher by the Main National University of San Marcos in Lima (Peru). He has been a visiting researcher at the Universities of St. Andrews, Münster and London (LSE). He has given lectures at the Universities of Pittsburgh, Stanford, Quebec and Helsinki. The conferences in which he has participated include those organized by the Universities of Uppsala, New South Wales, Bologna, Canterbury (NZ), and Beijing. He has edited 26 volumes on philosophy and methodology of science.

Author : Wenceslao J. Gonzalez
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400778382

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Bas van Fraassen’s Approach to Representation and Models in Science by Wenceslao J. Gonzalez Pdf

This book analyzes Bas van Fraassen’s characterization of representation and models in science. In this regard, it presents the philosophical coordinates of his approach and pays attention to his structural empiricism as a framework for his views on scientific representations and models. These are developed here through two new contributions made by van Fraassen. In addition, there are analyses of the relation between models and reality in his approach, where the complexity of this conception is considered in detail. Furthermore, there is an examination of scientific explanation and epistemic values judgments. This volume includes a wealth of bibliographical information on his philosophy and relevant philosophical issues. Bas van Fraassen is a key figure in contemporary philosophy of science, as the prestigious Hempel Award shows. His views on scientific representation offer new ideas on how it should be characterized, and his conception of models shows a novelty that goes beyond other empiricists’ approaches of recent times. Both aspects — the characterization of scientific representation and the conception of models in science — are part of a deliberate attempt to forge a “structural empiricism,” an alternative to structural realism based on an elaborated version of empiricism.

Author : N.J. Nersessian
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400935198

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The Process of Science by N.J. Nersessian Pdf

For some time now the philosophy of science has been undergoing a major transfor mation. It began when the 'received view' of scientific knowledge -that developed by logical positivists and their intellectual descendants - was challenged as bearing little resemblance to and having little relevance for the understanding of real science. Subsequently, an overwhelming amount of criticism has been added. One would be hard-pressed to find anyone who would support the 'received view' today. Yet, in the search for a new analysis of scientific knowledge, this view continues to exert influence over the tenor of much of present-day philosophy of science; in particular, over its problems and its methods of analysis. There has, however, emerged an area within the discipline - called by some the 'new philosophy of science' - that has been engaged in transforming the problems and methods of philosophy of science. While there is far from a consensus of beliefs in this area, most of the following contentions would be affirmed by those working in it: - that science is an open-ended, on-going activity, whose character has changed significantly during its history - that science is not a monolithic enterprise - that good science can lead to false theories - that science has its roots in everyday circumstances, needs, methods, concepts, etc.

Author : Wenceslao J. Gonzalez
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030525002

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Methodological Prospects for Scientific Research by Wenceslao J. Gonzalez Pdf

This book highlights the existence of a diversity of methods in science, in general, in groups of sciences (natural, social or the artificial), and in individual sciences. This methodological variety is open to a number of consequences, such as the differences in the research according to levels of reality (micro, meso and macro), which leads to multi-scale modelling and to questioning “fundamental” parts in the sciences, understood as the necessary support for the whole discipline. In addition, this volume acknowledges the need to assess the efficacy of procedures and methods of scientific activity in engendering high quality results in research made; the relevance of contextual factors for methodology of science; the existence of a plurality of stratagems when doing research in empirical sciences (natural, social and of the artificial); and the need for an ethical component while developing scientific methods, because values should have a role in scientific research. The book is of interest to a broad audience of philosophers, academics in various fields, graduate students and research centers interested in methodology of science.

Author : Friedrich Stadler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789048191154

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The Present Situation in the Philosophy of Science by Friedrich Stadler Pdf

This volume is a serious attempt to open up the subject of European philosophy of science to real thought, and provide the structural basis for the interdisciplinary development of its specialist fields, but also to provoke reflection on the idea of ‘European philosophy of science’. This efforts should foster a contemporaneous reflection on what might be meant by philosophy of science in Europe and European philosophy of science, and how in fact awareness of it could assist philosophers interpret and motivate their research through a stronger collective identity.The overarching aim is to set the background for a collaborative project organising, systematising, and ultimately forging an identity for, European philosophy of science by creating research structures and developing research networks across Europe to promote its development.

Author : William M.R. Simpson,Robert C. Koons,Nicholas J. Teh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351813242

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Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science by William M.R. Simpson,Robert C. Koons,Nicholas J. Teh Pdf

The last two decades have seen two significant trends emerging within the philosophy of science: the rapid development and focus on the philosophy of the specialised sciences, and a resurgence of Aristotelian metaphysics, much of which is concerned with the possibility of emergence, as well as the ontological status and indispensability of dispositions and powers in science. Despite these recent trends, few Aristotelian metaphysicians have engaged directly with the philosophy of the specialised sciences. Additionally, the relationship between fundamental Aristotelian concepts—such as "hylomorphism", "substance", and "faculties"—and contemporary science has yet to receive a critical and systematic treatment. Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science aims to fill this gap in the literature by bringing together essays on the relationship between Aristotelianism and science that cut across interdisciplinary boundaries. The chapters in this volume are divided into two main sections covering the philosophy of physics and the philosophy of the life sciences. Featuring original contributions from distinguished and early-career scholars, this book will be of interest to specialists in analytical metaphysics and the philosophy of science.

Author : Wenceslao J. Gonzalez
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030605377

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Language and Scientific Research by Wenceslao J. Gonzalez Pdf

This book analyzes the role of language in scientific research and develops the semantics of science from different angles. The philosophical investigation of the volume is divided into four parts, which covers both basic science and applied science: I) The Problem of Reference and Potentialities of the Language in Science; II) Language and Change in Scientific Research: Evolution and Historicity; III) Scientific Language in the Context of Truth and Fiction; and IV) Language in Mathematics and in Empirical Sciences. Language plays a key role in science: our access to the theoretical, practical or evaluative dimensions of scientific activity begins with the mastery of language, continues with a deepening in the use of language and reaches the level of contribution when it creates new terms or changes them in sense and reference. This reveals the compatibility between objectivity in semantic contents and historicity in the progress of science. This volume is a valuable enrichment to students, academics and other professionals interested in science in all its forms, who seek to deepen the role that language plays in its structure and dynamics.

Author : Krzysztof Brzechczyn,Katarzyna Paprzycka
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401209007

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Thinking about Provincialism in Thinking by Krzysztof Brzechczyn,Katarzyna Paprzycka Pdf

Preliminary material /Editors Thinking about Provincialism in Thinking -- INTRODUCTION /Katarzyna Paprzycka and Krzysztof Brzechczyn -- ON THE HIDDEN UNITY OF SOCIAL AND NATURAL SCIENCES (1998) /Leszek Nowak -- THE STRUCTURE OF PROVINCIAL THOUGHT. HALF ESSAY, HALF THESIS (1998) /Leszek Nowak -- MODELS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH (1976) /Leszek Nowak -- NATIONS AND PHILOSOPHIES. REFLECTIONS ON TWARDOWSKI'S VIEWS /Jan Woleński -- FROM COSMOPOLITISM TO NATIONAL-POPULAR CULTURE. GRAMSCIAN ATTEMPT AT OVERCOMING PROVINCIALISM /Giacomo Borbone -- HUMAN ON THE PERIPHERY OF COMMUNITY. WITOLD GOMBROWICZ ON PROVINCIALISM /Mieszko Ciesielski -- HISPANIC-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY IN THE FRINGES OF THE EMPIRE /Adolfo García de la Sienra and Leandro Rodríguez Medina -- DOES HISTORIOGRAPHY NEED TO BE PROVINCIAL?. INTERNATIONAL CIRCULATION OF IDEAS AS EXEMPLIFIED BY THE COOPERATION OF POLISH AND FRENCH HISTORIANS IN THE PERIOD OF THE PEOPLE'S OF REPUBLIC OF POLAND /Patryk Pleskot -- METHODOLOGICAL UNIVERSALISM IN SCIENCE AND ITS LIMITS. IMPERIALISM VERSUS COMPLEXITY /Wenceslao J. Gonzalez -- ORIENTALISM AS A SIGN OF PROVINCIALISM /Eliza Karczyńska -- THE CONTEXT OF THE 'THIRD MISSION ' IN THE 'PERIPHERAL UNIVERSITIES '. A CASE STUDY OF THE 'CROSS-BORDER UNIVERSITY ' /Cezary Kościelniak -- ON COURAGE OF ACTIONS AND COWARDICE OF THINKING. LESZEK NOWAK ON THE PROVINCIALISM OF THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF SOLIDARNOŚĆ /Krzysztof Brzechczyn -- PARADIGMS, MARKETS, AND POLITICS. FROM PROVINCE TO METROPOLIS AND RETOUR /Max Urchs and Uwe Scheffler -- SOME REMARKS ON THE SPACE-TIME OF CULTURE /Barbara Przybylska-Czajkowska and Waldemar Czajkowski -- THE INTELLECTUAL SUPERPOWER. AN ATTEMPT AT A CORRECTION OF NOWAK'S MODEL OF PROVINCIALISM /Katarzyna Paprzycka.

Author : Paul David Hoffman,David Owen,Gideon Yaffe
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Contemporary Perspectives on Early Modern Philosophy by Paul David Hoffman,David Owen,Gideon Yaffe Pdf

Author : Wenceslao J. González
Publisher : Netbiblo
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Science
ISBN : 9788497459334

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Conceptual Revolutions by Wenceslao J. González Pdf