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Author : C. Mantzavinos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107128514
This book proposes a new philosophical theory of scientific explanation by developing and defending the position of explanatory pluralism.
Author : Chrysostomos Mantzavinos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Explanation
ISBN : 1316669386
This book proposes a new philosophical theory of scientific explanation by developing and defending the position of explanatory pluralism.
Author : Michel Bélanger,Patrice Potvin,Steven Horst,Andrew Shtulman,Eduardo F. Mortimer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000617924
Bringing together diverse theoretical and empirical contributions from the fields of social and cognitive psychology, philosophy and science education, this volume explores representational pluralism as a phenomenon characteristic of human cognition. Building on these disciplines’ shared interest in understanding human thought, perception and conceptual change, the volume illustrates how representational plurality can be conducive to research and practice in varied fields. Particular care is taken to emphasize points of convergence and the value of sharing discourses, models, justifications and theories of pluralism across disciplines. The editors give ample space for philosophers, cognitive scientists and educators to explicate the history and current status of representational pluralism in their own disciplines. Using multiple forms of research from the relational perspective, this volume will be of interest to students, scholars and researchers with an interest in cognitive psychology, as well as educational psychology and philosophy of science.
Author : Klemen Jaklic
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191008948
Where does the law and political power of any given territory come from? Until recently it was believed that it came from a single and hierarchical source of constitutional authority, a sovereign people and their constitution. However, how can this model account for the new Europe? Where state constitutions and the European Constitution, which are ultimately equally self-standing sources of constitutional authority, overlap heterarchically over a shared piece of territory. Constitutional pluralism is a new branch within constitutional thought that argues sovereignty is no longer the accurate and normatively superior constitutional foundation. It instead replaces this thought with its own foundation. It emerged on the basis of contributions by the leading EU constitutionalists and has now become the most dominant branch of European constitutional thought. Its claims have also overstepped the European context, suggesting that it offers historic advantages for further development of the idea of constitutionalism and world order as such. This book offers the first overarching examination of constitutional pluralism.Comprehensively mapping out the leading contributions to date and solving the complicated labyrinth they currently form, Klemen Jaklic offers a complete assessment against existing and new criticisms while elaborating his own original vision. Constitutional pluralism thus refined has the potential to rightfully be considered the superior new approach within constitutional thought.
Author : Maria Carla Galavotti,Dennis Dieks,Wenceslao J. Gonzalez,Stephan Hartmann,Thomas Uebel,Marcel Weber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319043821
This volume sheds light on still unexplored issues and raises new questions in the main areas addressed by the philosophy of science. Bringing together selected papers from three main events, the book presents the most advanced scientific results in the field and suggests innovative lines for further investigation. It explores how discussions on several notions of the philosophy of science can help different scientific disciplines in learning from each other. Finally, it focuses on the relationship between Cambridge and Vienna in twentieth century philosophy of science. The areas examined in the book are: formal methods, the philosophy of the natural and life sciences, the cultural and social sciences, the physical sciences and the history of the philosophy of science.
Author : Diarmid A. Finnegan,David H. Glass,Mikael Leidenhag,David N. Livingstone
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000840377
This book investigates the nature and relevance of conjunctive explanations in the context of science and religion. It explores questions concerning how scientific and religious explanations for features of the world or phenomena within it relate to each other and whether they might work together in mutually enriching ways. The chapters address topics including the relationship between Darwinian and teleological explanations, non-reductive explanations of mind and consciousness, and explanations of Christian faith and religious experience, while others explore theological and philosophical issues concerning the nature and feasibility of conjunctive explanations. Overall, the contributions help to provide conceptual clarity on how scientific and religious explanations might or might not work together conjunctively as well as exploring how these ideas relate to specific topics in science and religion more generally.
Author : Alexander Reutlinger,Juha Saatsi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198777946
What forms does explanation take if it is not based on causation? Fifteen leading philosophers explore this hot topic, arising from a shift in philosophical understanding of the nature of explanation which reflects actual explanatory practices in science, mathematics, and philosophy.
Author : Raffaella Campaner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783031058837
This interdisciplinary monograph in philosophy of medicine examines models of explanation in health science and their relation with current medical trends, such as personalized and person-centered medicine. Medicine has provided challenging case studies for the general philosophy of science that have prompted rethinking of a wide range of philosophical notions – such as scientific law, theory and evidence – and contributed to the elaboration of pluralistic approaches to modeling, causality and explanation. The health sciences have increasingly recognized the role of philosophy of medicine as both a field of conceptual and methodological reflection, capable of addressing practical issues, and hence relevant for a proper understanding of the construction of medical knowledge, modeling practices, therapeutic strategies and preventive decisions. 'Explaining Disease' contains various case studies in medicine to describe the assumptions underpinning the construction of explanatory models of diseases. It shows the impact different explanatory strategies can have on practical matters, which in turn affect clinical evaluation and therapy and public health decisions. The book concludes with a few open-ended reflections to foster more thorough consideration of the role of philosophy of medicine can play its dialogue with the health sciences.
Author : Saulo de Freitas Araujo,Lisa M. Osbeck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781108845021
Examines ideas of pluralism in William James's writings and contemporary psychology.
Author : Edward Fullbrook
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781848137509
This book is an authoritative and accessible guide to the pluralist movement threatening to revolutionise mainstream economics. Leading figures in the field explain why pluralism is a required virtue in economics, how it came to be blocked and what it means for the way we think about, research and teach economics. The first part of the book looks at how neoclassical economics gained its stranglehold, particularly in the United States, and how the social and intellectual underpinnings of economics have enabled it to maintain this in the face of inconsistent evidence from the real world. This is then contrasted with different approaches to pluralism. Pluralist Economics then goes on to address the array of arguments for establishing pluralism, showing how economics came to function as a concealed ideology and not as a science, and how value-free economics is an illusion. Finally, it addresses the practical problems presented by this different way of doing economics.
Author : Markus I. Eronen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110332131
The notion of reduction continues to play a key role in philosophy of mind and philosophy of cognitive science. Supporters of reductionism claim that psychological properties or explanations reduce to neural properties or explanations, while antireductionists claim that such reductions are not possible. In this book, I apply recent developments in philosophy of science, particularly the mechanistic explanation paradigm and the interventionist theory of causation, to reassess the traditional approaches to reduction in philosophy of mind. I then elaborate and defend a pluralistic framework for philosophy of mind, and show how reductionist ideas can be incorporated into it. This leads to a novel synthesis of pluralism and reductionism that I call pluralistic physicalism.
Author : Sandra D. Mitchell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521520797
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Author : Julie Zahle,Finn Collin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319053448
This collection of papers investigates the most recent debates about individualism and holism in the philosophy of social science. The debates revolve mainly around two issues: firstly, whether social phenomena exist sui generis and how they relate to individuals. This is the focus of discussions between ontological individualists and ontological holists. Secondly, to what extent social scientific explanations may and should, focus on individuals and social phenomena respectively. This issue is debated amongst methodological holists and methodological individualists. In social science and philosophy, both issues have been intensively discussed and new versions of the dispute have appeared just as new arguments have been advanced. At present, the individualism/holism debate is extremely lively and this book reflects the major positions and perspectives within the debate. This volume is also relevant to debates about two closely related issues in social science: the micro-macro debate and the agency-structure debate. This book presents contributions from key figures in both social science and philosophy, in the first such collection on this topic to be published since the 1970s.
Author : Aku Visala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317089612
This book provides a critical philosophical analysis of the claim that contemporary cognitive approaches to religion undermine theistic beliefs. Recent scientific work into the evolution and cognition of religion has been driven by and interpreted in terms of a certain kind of philosophical and methodological naturalism. The book argues that such naturalism is not necessary for the cognitive study of religion and develops an alternative philosophical and methodological framework. This alternative framework opens the cognitive study of religion to theological and philosophical considerations and clarifies its relationship to other approaches to religious phenomena. This unique contribution to discussions regarding the philosophical and theological implications of the cognitive study of religion summarizes the so far fragmentary discussion, exposes its underlying assumptions, and develops a novel framework for further discussion.
Author : Michiru Nagatsu,Attilia Ruzzene
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474248778
How should we theorize about the social world? How can we integrate theories, models and approaches from seemingly incompatible disciplines? Does theory affect social reality? This state-of-the-art collection addresses contemporary methodological questions and interdisciplinary developments in the philosophy of social science. Facilitating a mutually enriching dialogue, chapters by leading social scientists are followed by critical evaluations from philosophers of social science. This exchange showcases recent major theoretical and methodological breakthroughs and challenges in the social sciences, as well as fruitful ways in which the analytic tools developed in philosophy of science can be applied to understand these advancements. The volume covers a diverse range of principles, methods, innovations and applications, including scientific and methodological pluralism, performativity of theories, causal inferences and applications of social science to policy and business. Taking a practice-orientated and interactive approach, it offers a new philosophy of social science grounded in and relevant to the emerging social science practice.
