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Probabilities, Laws, and Structures

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Editors:
  1. Dennis Dieks

    1. Utrecht, Netherlands

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  2. Wenceslao J. Gonzalez

    1. , Faculty of Humanities, University of A Coruña, Ferrol, Spain

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  3. Stephan Hartmann

    1. Tilburg, Netherlands

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  4. Michael Stöltzner

    1. University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA

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  5. Marcel Weber

    1. University of Geneva, Geneva, Germany

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  • State of the art discussion of research topics in philosophy of science such as Causal Realism and Technomathematical Models in the Social Sciences
  • Discusses an interdisciplinary approach towards philosophy of science
  • Focuses on European Perspectives?

Part of the book series: The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective (PSEP, volume 3)

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Table of contents (36 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  3. Philosophy of the Natural and Life Sciences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
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    2. Mathematical Biology and the Existence of Biological Laws

      • Mauro Dorato
      Pages 109-121

    3. On Empirical Generalisations

      • Federica Russo
      Pages 123-139

    4. The Limits of Interventionism – Causality in the Social Sciences

      • Sebastian Mateiescu
      Pages 141-156

    5. Causal Realism

      • Michael Esfeld
      Pages 157-168

    6. Structural Invariants, Structural Kinds, Structural Laws

      • Holger Lyre
      Pages 169-181

    7. Santa’s Gift of Structural Realism

      • Paul Hoyningen-Huene
      Pages 183-186

    8. The Resilience of Laws and the Ephemerality of Objects: Can a Form of Structuralism be Extended to Biology?

      • Steven French
      Pages 187-199

    9. Natural Kinds, Conceptual Change, and the Duck-Bill Platypus: LaPorte on Incommensurability

      • Michela Massimi
      Pages 201-215

    10. Essentialism About Kinds: An Undead Issue in the Philosophies of Physics and Biology?

      • Thomas A. C. Reydon
      Pages 217-230

    11. Biological Laws and Kinds Within a Conservative Reductionist Framework

      • Christian Sachse
      Pages 231-244
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This volume, the third in this Springer series, contains selected papers from the four workshops organized by the ESF Research Networking Programme "The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective" (PSE) in 2010: Pluralism in the Foundations of Statistics Points of Contact between the Philosophy of Physics and the Philosophy of Biology The Debate on Mathematical Modeling in the Social Sciences Historical Debates about Logic, Probability and Statistics The volume is accordingly divided in four sections, each of them containing papers coming from the workshop focussing on one of these themes. While the programme's core topic for the year 2010 was probability and statistics, the organizers of the workshops embraced the opportunity of building bridges to more or less closely connected issues in general philosophy of science, philosophy of physics and philosophy of the special sciences. However, papers that analyze the concept of probability for various philosophical purposes are clearly a major theme in this volume, as it was in the previous volumes of the same series. This reflects the impressive productivity of probabilistic approaches in the philosophy of science, which form an important part of what has become known as formal epistemology - although, of course, there are non-probabilistic approaches in formal epistemology as well. It is probably fair to say that Europe has been particularly strong in this area of philosophy in recent years.​

Editors and Affiliations

  • Utrecht, Netherlands

    Dennis Dieks

  • , Faculty of Humanities, University of A Coruña, Ferrol, Spain

    Wenceslao J. Gonzalez

  • Tilburg, Netherlands

    Stephan Hartmann

  • University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA

    Michael Stöltzner

  • University of Geneva, Geneva, Germany

    Marcel Weber

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