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- How thin rational choice theory explains choices
- Antoni van Leeuwenhoek and measuring the invisible: The context of 16th and 17th century micrometry
- Multi-model ensembles in climate science: mathematical structures and expert judgements
- What are the drivers of induction? Towards a Material Theory+
- Law and Order Natural regularities before the scientific revolution
- A tale of two Nortons
- Making sense of non-factual disagreement in science
- An early stage in the evolution of Aristotle’s physics
- Natural diversity: A neo-essentialist misconstrual of homeostatic property cluster theory in natural kind debates
- Schemas for Induction
- Beauty as Natural Order. The Legacy of Antiquity to Bonaventure’s symbolical Theology and Nicholas of Cusa’s spiritual Theophany
- Bayesian Philosophy of Science, Jan Sprenger, Stephan Hartmann. Oxford University Press, Oxford (2019), pp. xiii+ 383, £60.00 [hardcover]
- Genera and Species vs. Laws of Nature Two Epistemic Frameworks and their Respective Ideal Worlds
- Norton’s material theory of analogy
- Du Châtelet: Idealist About Extension, Bodies and Space
- Reviving material theories of induction
- Drawing on the imagination: the limits of illustrated figures in nineteenth-century geometry
- History and Philosophy of Science After the Practice-Turn: From Inherent Tension to Local Integration
- Unwarranted assumptions: Claude Bernard and the growth of the vera causa standard
- Evidence and explanation in Cicero’s On Divination
- How to infer explanations from computer simulations
- Edward Gresham’s Astrostereon, or A Discourse of the Falling of the Planet (1603), the Copernican Paradox, and the Construction of Early Modern Proto-Scientific Discourse
- How to think about analogical inferences: A reply to Norton
- The Material Theory of Object-Induction and the Universal Optimality of Meta-Induction: Two Complementary Accounts
- Case Study Research in the Social Sciences
- Structure and Numbers: Shao Yong on the Order of Reality
- Ernst Cassirer’s transcendental account of mathematical reasoning
- The Inferences of Common Causes Reduced to Common Origins
- Big data and prediction: four case studies
- Quantum sidelights on The Material Theory of Induction
- History of Science and its Utopian Reconstructions
- Why Does the Chinese Public Accept Evolution?
- Seepage, Objectivity, and Climate Science
- How NOT to Build an Infinite Lottery Machine
- The ecological rationality of explanatory reasoning
- From Positivism to Conventionalism: Comte, Renouvier, and Poincaré
- Knowledge transfer and its contexts
- The periodic table and the turn to practice
- The Revolt Against Rationalism: Feyerabend’s Critical Philosophy
- On “the application of science to science itself:” chemistry, instruments, and the scientific labor process
- Public scientific testimony in the scientific image
- Unnatural Acts: The Transition from Natural Principles to Laws of Nature in Early Modern Science
- Standards of evidence and causality in regulatory science: risk and benefit assessment
- Negotiating History: Contingency, Canonicity, and Case Studies
- The Imitation Game: Response to Collins and Evans
- The Rule of Law: Natural, Human, and Divine
- Types of Experiments and Causal Process Tracing: What Happened on the Kaibab Plateau in the 1920s
- Pluralism and Anarchism in Quantum Physics Paul Feyerabend’s writings on quantum physics in relation to his general philosophy of science
- Hans Reichenbach’s and C.I. Lewis’s Kantian philosophies of science
- The Imitation Game and the nature of science
- Natural Selection and the Reference Grain Problem
- Saved by the phenomena: Law and nature in Cicero and the (pseudo?) Platonic Epinomis
- Technoscientific approaches to deep time
- Moses Maimonides and Judah Halevi on Order and Law in the World of Nature, and Beyond
- Kant’s universal conception of natural history
- Historicity and explanation
- The gestation of German biology: Philosophy and physiology from Stahl to Schelling, John H. Zammito. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill (2018), pp. i-vi +523, index. Price US $45.00 hardback ISBN 978-0-226-52079-7, $10.00 e-book ISBN 978-0-226-52082-7
- French historical epistemology: Discourse, concepts, and the norms of rationality
- Self-correction in science: meta-analysis, bias and social structure
- Against Defaultism and Towards Localism in the Contingency/Inevitability Conversation: Or, Why We Should Shut up About Putting-Up
- Realism without tears II: The structuralist legacy of sensory physiology
- How to think about shared norms and pluralism without circularity: a reply to Anna Leuschner
- Realism without tears I: Müller’s Doctrine of Specific Nerve Energies
- The National Science Foundation and philosophy of science’s withdrawal from social concerns
- Defending eliminative structuralism and a whole lot more (or less)
- Value-entanglement and the integrity of scientific research
- Structural Realism, Mathematics, and Ontology
- Physics, Metaphysics, Dispositions, and Symmetries – à la French
- Introduction: Structuralists of the World Unite
- Should physical laws be unit-invariant?
- A Mid-Level Approach to Modeling Scientific Communities
- Exemplification and the use-values of cases and case studies
- Science, Truth and Dictatorship: Wishful Thinking or Wishful Speaking?
- Beyond the metrological viewpoint
- Are plants cognitive? A reply to Adams
- Mavericks and Lotteries
- The credit incentive to Be a maverick
- Mechanism-based theorizing and generalization from case studies
- Building Middle-Range Theories from Case Studies
- Data, epistemic values, and multiple methods in case study research
- Why eliminativism?
- Phenomenotechnique: Bachelard’s critical inheritance of conventionalism
- Existential risk, creativity & well-adapted science
- Should scientific realists embrace theoretical conservatism?
- Exploratory experiments: Ampére, Faraday, and the origins of electrodynamics, Friedrich Steinle. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh (2016), pp. x+494, price US$65 hardback, ISBN-13: 978-0822944508
- The Duhem-Quine problem for equiprobable conjuncts
- Assessing accuracy in measurement: The dilemma of safety versus precision in the adjustment of the fundamental physical constants
- What is mechanistic evidence, and why do we need it for evidence-based policy?
- Scientific autonomy and the unpredictability of scientific inquiry: The unexpected might not be where you would expect
- Jewish Time: First Stages of Seasonal Hours in Judea
- The rise of cryptographic metaphors in Boyle and their use for the mechanical philosophy
- The scales of experience: Introduction to the special issue Experiencing the global environment
- Knowledge transfer in theoretical ecology: Implications for incommensurability, voluntarism, and pluralism
- Microbes, mathematics, and models
- The landing zone – Ground for model transfer in chemistry
- The Restless Clock: A history of the centuries-long argument over what makes living things tick, Jessica Riskin. University of Chicago Press, Chicago (2016), pp. xiii, 548, Price $40.00 hardback. ISBN: 13-978-0-226-30292-8
- No communication without manipulation: A causal-deflationary view of information
- Constitutive relevance in cognitive science: The case of eye movements and cognitive mechanisms
- Constructing dystopian experience: A Neurath-Cartwrightian approach to the philosophy of social technology
- Afterward: Humboldt was Right
- Political science methodology: A plea for pluralism
- Essay Review: Social Epistemology Meets Heideggerian Ontology
- Creativity, Conservativeness & the Social Epistemology of Science
- Diagrams and alien ways of thinking
- On the viability of the No Alternatives Argument
- State of the Field: Latin American Decolonial Philosophies of Science
- New theories for new instruments: Fabrizio Mordente’s proportional compass and the genesis of Giordano Bruno’s atomist geometry
- Experimentation in the sociology of science: Representational and generative registers in the imitation game
- The Scientific Journal: Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century, Alex Csiszar. University of Chicago Press, Chicago (2018), xi + 376, Price US$ 45 hardback, ISBN 978-0-226-55323-8
- The stage on which our ingenious play is performed: Kant’s epistemology of Weltkenntnis
- Introduction to Kant’s philosophy of science: Bridging the gap between the natural and the human sciences
- The natural selection of conservative science
- The Ascent of Affect. Genealogy and Critique, Leys Ruth. University of Chicago Press, Chicago (2017), 416, Price US$35.00 paperback, ISBN: 9780226488561
- A Kantian account of mathematical modelling and the rationality of scientific theory change: The role of the equivalence principle in the development of general relativity
- The Landing Zone – Ground for Model Transfer in Chemistry
- How could models possibly provide how-possibly explanations?
- History to reckon with
- The problem of grounding natural modality in Kant’s account of empirical laws of nature
- Kant and the scope of the analytic method
- The stage on which our ingenious play is performed: Kant’s epistemology of Weltkenntnis
- No communication without manipulation: a causal-deflationary view of information
- The scales of experience: Introduction to the special issue Experiencing the global environment
- Heaps of moles? – Mediating macroscopic and microscopic measurement of chemical substances
- Afterward: Humboldt was Right1
- Experiential and cosmopolitan knowledge: The transcontinental field practices of the U.S. Bureau of Biological Survey
- Detail and generality in mechanistic explanation
- Constructing Dystopian Experience: a Neurath-Cartwrightian Approach to the Philosophy of Social Technology
- Constitutive relevance in cognitive science: the case of eye movements and cognitive mechanisms
- Earthquake prediction, biological clocks, and the cold war psy-ops: Using animals as seismic sensors in the 1970s California
- Average rainfall and the play of colors:Colonial experience and global climate data
- Human bodies as chemical sensors: A history of biomonitoring for environmental health and regulation
- Experiencing deep and global currents at a ‘Prototypical Strait’, 1870s and 1980s
- Can animals predict earthquakes?: Bio-sentinels as seismic sensors in communist China and beyond
- Knowledge transfer without knowledge? The case of agentive metaphors in biology
- Knowledge transfer in agent-based computational social science
- Re-situating fieldwork and re-narrating disciplinary history in global mega-geomorphology
- Rip it up and start again: The rejection of a characterization of a phenomenon
- Project knowledge and its resituation in the design of research projects: Seymour Benzer’s behavioral genetics, 1965-1974
- Mechanisms, the interventionist theory, and the ability to use causal relationships
- Kant on science and normativity
- The role of psychology in behavioral economics: The case of social preferences
- Émilie Du Châtelet’s interpretation of the laws of motion in the light of 18th century mechanics
- Cartesian critters can’t remember
- How to be rational about empirical success in ongoing science: The case of the quantum nose and its critics
- The Whewell-Mill debate on predictions, from Mill’s point of view
- Scientists as experts: A distinct role?
- A new twist to the No Miracles Argument for the success of science
- The diffusion of scientific innovations: A role typology
- What (good) is cultural history for history of science today? Perspectives, challenges, concerns
- Five chances in evolution
- Integrating mechanistic explanations through epistemic perspectives
- A coherentist conception of ad hoc hypotheses
- Introduction: Realizability and levels of reality
- Schelling’s method of Darstellung: Presenting nature through experiment
- The soul as the ‘guiding idea’ of psychology: Kant on scientific psychology, systematicity, and the idea of the soul
- Natural classification and Pierre’s Duhem historical work: Which relationships?
- Inductive reasoning in the context of discovery: Analogy as an experimental stratagem in the history and philosophy of science
- In defense of interventionist solutions to exclusion
- Realizability and the varieties of explanation
- Saving the mutual manipulability account of constitutive relevance
- Transfer and templates in scientific modelling
- The double transfer of thermodynamics: From physics to chemistry and from Europe to America
- Knowledge transfer across scientific disciplines
- The realizers and vehicles of mental representation
- Leibniz on the requisites of an exact arithmetical quadrature
- Heuristic analogy in Ars Conjectandi: From Archimedes’ De Circuli Dimensione to Bernoulli’s theorem
- Chance, determinism and the classical theory of probability
- A reply to Craver and Povich on the directionality of distinctively mathematical explanations
- What does interdisciplinarity look like in practice: Mapping interdisciplinarity and its limits in the environmental sciences
- The naturalism of the sciences
- Realism on the rocks: Novel success and James Hutton’s theory of the earth
- Modelling gene regulation: (De)compositional and template-based strategies
- A role for spatiotemporal scales in modeling
- Models on the move: Migration and imperialism
- Calibration: Modelling the measurement process
- Reduction redux
- Physicalism, realization, and structure
- Cognition wars
- “What is living and What is Dead” in materialism?
- Multiple realization and multiple “ways” of realization: A progress report
- The making of measurement: Editors’ introduction
- Modelling and knowledge transfer in complexity science
- Nuclear science and technology in the Malaysian context: Three phases of technoscientific knowledge transfer (ETTLG)
- Fresnel’s laws, ceteris paribus
- State of the field: Paper tools
- A structural interpretation of measurement and some related epistemological issues
- From artefacts to atoms – A new SI for 2018 to be based on fundamental constants
- An aging literary revolution: Stuck with the paradigm
- What’s nu? A re-examination of Maxwell’s ‘ratio-of-units’ argument, from the mechanical theory of the electromagnetic field to ‘On the elementary relations between electrical measurements’
- Towards a research program in Kantian positive psychology
- Kant and the scope of analogy in the life sciences
- Maimon’s criticism of Kant’s doctrine of mathematical cognition and the possibility of metaphysics as a science
- Scientific pluralism and metaphysics
- Defending the selective confirmation strategy
- Kuhnian theory-choice and virtue convergence: Facing the base rate fallacy
- Hubris to humility: Tonal volume and the fundamentality of psychophysical quantities
- Clinical outcome measurement: Models, theory, psychometrics and practice
- Duhemian good sense and agent reliabilism
- Magnitude, moment, and measurement: The seismic mechanism controversy and its resolution
- Was Feyerabend an anarchist? The structure(s) of ‘anything goes’
- The evaluation of measurement uncertainties and its epistemological ramifications
- The history of science as the progress of the human spirit: The historiography of astronomy in the eighteenth century
- Science denial as a form of pseudoscience
- No actual measurement … was required: Maxwell and Cavendish’s null method for the inverse square law of electrostatics
- The directionality of distinctively mathematical explanations
- The appeal to robustness in measurement practice
- Theories that narrate the world: Ronald A. Fisher’s mass selection and Sewall Wright’s shifting balance
- Narrative possibility and narrative explanation
- Acidity: Modes of characterization and quantification
- Review essay, models and exploratory models
- Narrative ordering and explanation
- On the narrative form of simulations
- Narrative science and narrative knowing. Introduction to special issue on narrative science
- Scientists’ attitudes on science and values: Case studies and survey methods in philosophy of science
- Ten reasons to embrace scientism
- The cultures of mathematical economics in the postwar Soviet Union: More than a method, less than a discipline
- Narrative constructs in modern clinical case reporting
- Narrative and natural history in the eighteenth century
- Introduction: Testing philosophical theories
- Kepler: Analogies in the search for the law of refraction
- Extensional scientific realism vs. intensional scientific realism
- Who was William Hyde Wollaston?
- Kant on anatomy and the status of the life sciences
- Kepler’s optics: Ocular anatomy, the visual faculty, and the continuity-discontinuity debate
- Hermann Cohen’s Das Princip der Infinitesimal-Methode: The history of an unsuccessful book
- Reactionary responses to the Bad Lot Objection
- The many encounters of Thomas Kuhn and French epistemology
- Quine’s ‘needlessly strong’ holism
- ‘Natures’ and ‘Laws’: The making of the concept of law of nature – Robert Grosseteste (c. 1168–1253) and Roger Bacon (1214/1220–1292)
- Pluto and the platypus: An odd ball and an odd duck – On classificatory norms
- Editorial board and publication information
- Essentially narrative explanations
- The ontology of quantum field theory: Structural realism vindicated?
- Silent performances: Are “repertoires” really post-Kuhnian?
- Structural realism versus deployment realism: A comparative evaluation
- Other histories, other sciences
- Philosophical bodies in early modern Europe
- The experimenters’ regress reconsidered: Replication, tacit knowledge, and the dynamics of knowledge generation
- Analogical reflection as a source for the science of life: Kant and the possibility of the biological sciences
- How we load our data sets with theories and why we do so purposefully
- Process tracing in political science: What’s the story?
- From secondary causes to artificial instruments: Pierre-Sylvain Régis’s rethinking of scholastic accounts of causation
- Overlapping ontologies and Indigenous knowledge. From integration to ontological self-determination
- Repertoires: A post-Kuhnian perspective on scientific change and collaborative research
- Carnap on unified science
- Forms of presentism in the history of science. Rethinking the project of historical epistemology
- The re-emergence of hyphenated history-and-philosophy-of-science and the testing of theories of scientific change
- Whewell on the classification of the sciences
- Looking forward, not back: Supporting structuralism in the present
- Can the behavioral sciences self-correct? A social epistemic study
- Structural realism beyond physics
- Locke on measurement
- Democratic values and their role in maximizing the objectivity of science
- Newton and the ideal of exegetical success
- A choice-semantical approach to theoretical truth
- Linguistic turns: Scientific Babel, the language of science, and the science of language
- Taming theory with thought experiments: Understanding and scientific progress
- Did Samuel Clarke really disavow action at a distance in his correspondence with Leibniz?: Newton, Clarke, and Bentley on gravitation and action at a distance
- Deflating Cold War rationality
- Introduction: Kant and the empirical sciences
- Graph-based inductive reasoning
- Natural history and the formation of the human being: Kant on active forces
- Mechanistic explanation, cognitive systems demarcation, and extended cognition
- Epigenesis in Kant: Recent reconsiderations
- In defence of story-telling