Overview
- 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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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.
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Table of contents (36 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Formal Methods
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Philosophy of the Natural and Life Sciences
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Probabilities, Laws, and Structures
Editors: Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao J. Gonzalez, Stephan Hartmann, Michael Stöltzner, Marcel Weber
Series Title: The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3030-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3029-8Published: 03 February 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9966-0Published: 16 April 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-3030-4Published: 02 February 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 512
Topics: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Philosophy of Biology, Epistemology