Overview
- Illustrates the broad scope of reflection in contemporary philosophy of science
- Updates readers with the most recent developments in philosophy of science
- Collates contributions from renowned scholars across several fields in philosophy of science
- Presents selected papers from the 2nd triennial conference of the German Philosophy of Science Association
Part of the book series: European Studies in Philosophy of Science (ESPS, volume 9)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Philosophy of Life Sciences
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Philosophy of Social Sciences and Values in Science
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Philosophy of Mathematics and Formal Modeling
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Keywords
- Proceedings GWP.2016
- German Society for Philosophy of Science
- Quantum Gravity
- Causation in Physics
- Causality in General Relativity
- Functions, Malfunctioning, and Negative Causation
- Endosymbiotic Theory
- Origin of Eukaryotic Cells
- Agnotological Challenges
- Constitutive Inference
- Regularity Account of Mechanistic Constitution
- Dag Prawitz
- Theory of Grounds
- Theories of Function and Dysfunction
About this book
This broad and insightful book presents current scholarship in important subfields of philosophy of science and addresses an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary readership. It groups carefully selected contributions into the four fields of I) philosophy of physics, II) philosophy of life sciences, III) philosophy of social sciences and values in science, and IV) philosophy of mathematics and formal modeling.
Readers will discover research papers by Paul Hoyningen-Huene, Keizo Matsubara, Kian Salimkhani, Andrea Reichenberger, Anne Sophie Meincke, Javier Suárez, Roger Deulofeu, Ludger Jansen, Peter Hucklenbroich, Martin Carrier, Elizaveta Kostrova, Lara Huber, Jens Harbecke, Antonio Piccolomini d’Aragona and Axel Gelfert. This collection fosters dialogue between philosophers of science working in different subfields, and brings readers the finest and latest work across the breadth of the field, illustrating that contemporary philosophy of science has successfully broadened its scope of reflection. It will interest and inspire a wide audience of philosophers as well as scholars of the natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities.
The volume shares selected contributions from the prestigious second triennial conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science/ Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsphilosophie (GWP.2016, March 8, 2016 – March 11, 2016).
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Alexander Christian is a research fellow at the Düsseldorf center for Logic and Philosophy of Science (DCLPS) at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. His main research areas are general philosophy of science and ethics of science, with a particular focus on bias, questionable research practices and scientific misconduct in medical research. He published about the demarcation problem (“Wissenschaft und Pseudowissenschaft”, Peter Lang, 2013), values in science and the suppression of empirical evidence.
David Hommen is currently Post-Doctoral research fellow in the DFG Collaborative Research Centre “The Structure of Representations in Language, Cognition, and Science” at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. His main research areas are philosophy of mind, the theory of concepts, causal theory and the metaphysics of absences. He is co-author of “Negative Kausalität” (de Gruyter 2012, with Dieter Birnbacher) and author of “Mentale Verursachung, innere Erfahrung und handelnde Personen” (mentis 2013).
Nina Retzlaff is a research fellow at the Düsseldorf center for Logic and Philosophy of Science (DCLPS) at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. Her main research interests lie in philosophy of science, causality and metaphysics. In the context of her PhD thesis, she is investigating causality with regard to quantum mechanics.
Gerhard Schurz holds the Chair for Theoretical Philosophy at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and is the Director of the Düsseldorf Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science (DCLPS). His research areas include general and special philosophy of science, logic, epistemology, generalized evolution theory, artificial intelligence and metaethics. He published more than 200 papers. Among other books, he published “The Is-Ought Problem“, Dordrecht: Kluwer (1997), “Einführung in die Wissenschaftstheorie“, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (2006, 4. Aufl.2014), “Evolution in Natur und Kultur“, Heidelberg: Spektrum Akademischer Verlag (2011), “Philosophy of Science: A Unified Approach“, New York: Routledge (2013) and “Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie“, Berlin: DeGruyter (2015).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Philosophy of Science
Book Subtitle: Between the Natural Sciences, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities
Editors: Alexander Christian, David Hommen, Nina Retzlaff, Gerhard Schurz
Series Title: European Studies in Philosophy of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72577-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-72576-5Published: 05 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10229-6Published: 25 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-72577-2Published: 26 March 2018
Series ISSN: 2365-4228
Series E-ISSN: 2365-4236
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 274
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Philosophy of Nature, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Mathematics