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The semantic view,if plausible,is syntactic
semantic view of theories theoretical equivalence models constructive empiricism structural realism
2016/6/13
Halvorson (2012) argues that the semantic view of theories leads to absurdities. Glymour (2013) shows how to inoculate the semantic view against Halvorson's criticisms, namely by making it into a synt...
The Oxbay Ojectpray:A Novel Exercise for Teaching the Philosophy of Science
Pedagogy exercise
2016/6/13
We describe a simple, flexible exercise that can be implemented in the philosophy of science classroom: students are asked to determine the contents of a closed container, over the course of a semeste...
Intentional Models as Essential Scientific Tools
Intentionality intentional model statistical model phenomenological model mechanistic model propositional attitude prediction explanation
2016/6/13
In this article, I argue that the use of scientific models that attribute intentional content to complex systems bears a striking similarity to the way in which statistical descriptions are used. To d...
Belief revision theory studies how an ideal doxastic agent should revise her beliefs when she receives new information. In part I I will first present the AGM theory of belief revision (Alchourrón & G...
Belief revision theory studies how an ideal doxastic agent should revise her beliefs when she receives new information. In part I, I have first presented the AGM theory of belief revision. Then I have...
Recent accounts of actual causation are stated in terms of extended causal models. These extended causal models contain two elements representing two seemingly distinct modalities. The first element a...
Against the Statistical Account of Special Science Laws
laws of nature ceteris paribus laws probability/statistics determinism/indeterminism causation
2016/6/13
John Earman and John T. Roberts advocate a challenging and radical claim regarding the semantics of laws in the special sciences: the statistical account. According to this account, a typical special ...
Causal Foundationalism,Physical Causation,and Difference-Making
Causation Difference-Making Physical Causation Causal Foundationalism
2016/6/13
An influential tradition in the philosophy of causation has it that all token causal facts are, or are reducible to, facts about difference-making. Challenges to this tradition have typically focused ...
In Making Things Happen, James Woodward influentially combines a causal modeling analysis of actual causation with an INTERVENTIONIST semantics for the counterfactuals encoded in causal models. This l...
Model Verification and the Likelihood Principle
Model verification Mis-specification testing Hypothesis testing Likelihood principle Sufficiency principle Evidence
2016/6/13
The likelihood principle (LP) is typically understood as a constraint on any measure of evidence arising from a statistical experiment. It is not sufficiently often noted, however, that the LP assumes...
The Best Humean System for Statistical Mechanics
Boltzmannian statistical mechanics determinism objective chances
2016/6/13
Classical statistical mechanics posits probabilities for various events to occur, and these probabilities seem to be objective chances. This does not seem to sit well with the fact that the theory’s t...
Can the Pessimistic Induction Be Saved from Semantic Anti-Realism about Scientific Theory?
pessimistic induction realism anti-realism supervaluations
2016/6/13
Scientific anti-realists who appeal to the pessimistic induction (PI) claim that the theoretical terms of past scientific theories often fail to refer to anything. But on standard views in philosophy ...
An interventionist account of causation characterizes causal relations in terms of changes resulting from particular interventions. We provide an example of a causal relation for which there does not ...
The paper outlines the main argument for ontological reductionism in today’s discussion, claims that ontological and epistemological reductionism (theory reduction) stand or fall together and finally ...
Scientific theories are hard to find, and once scientists have found a theory H, they often believe that there are not many distinct alternatives to H. But is this belief justified? What should scient...