Title:
Scientific explanation and methodology of science : selected papers from the International Conference on SEMS 2012 Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China, 17-19 September 2012
Publication Information:
Hackensack, New Jersey : World Scientific, [2014]
Physical Description:
xvi, 251 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
ISBN:
9789814596633
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Table of Contents
Preface | p. v |
Organization | p. vii |
List of Participants | p. x |
The Directedness of Time in Classical Cosmology | p. 1 |
Explanation, Special Relativity, and Presentism | p. 16 |
A Muse of Fire | p. 32 |
SSK or ESW? - The Bloor-Lynch Debate Revisited | p. 45 |
Model Error and Ensemble Forecasting: A Cautionary Tale | p. 58 |
The Contextualist Basis of Scientific Explanation | p. 67 |
On a Bottom-Up Approach to Scientific Discovery | p. 80 |
The New Ignorance | p. 98 |
Models, Fiction, and Fictional Models | p. 107 |
A Contextualist Interpretation of Mathematics | p. 128 |
Understanding as Integration of Heterogeneous Representations | p. 138 |
Approximation of Laws | p. 148 |
Science, Sex, and Pictures: Reflections on van Fraassen's Use of Perspective) RepresentationsKathleen Okruhlik | |
Bayesianism versus Confirmation | p. 170 |
The Equivalent Transformation between Non-Truth-Function and Truth-Function | p. 176 |
Mechanism and Productive Event | p. 212 |
Social Science and the Bayesian Probability Explanation Model | p. 212 |
Choice of Units and the Causal Markov Condition | p. 240 |