Philosophy of Science

Published
Referees for Philosophy of Science
What Scientific Theories Could Not Be
Sameness in Biology
Mechanistic Constraints on Evolutionary Outcomes
The Varieties of Molecular Explanation
What Is It like to Feel Another’s Pain?
Stephen H. Kellert, Helen E. Longino, and C. Kenneth Waters: Scientific Pluralism
Approximation and Idealization: Why the Difference Matters
Published
Book Review: Simon Saunders, Jonathan Barrett, Adrian Kent, and David Wallace. Many Worlds? Everett, Quantum Theory, and Reality,
Book Review: Guido Bacciagaluppi and Antony Valentini. Quantum Theory at the Crossroads: Reconsidering the 1927 Solvay Conference,
Accuracy, Language Dependence, and Joyce’s Argument for Probabilism
Evolving to Divide the Fruits of Cooperation
Emergent Physics and Micro-Ontology
Reassessing Discovery: Rosalind Franklin, Scientific Visualization, and the Structure of DNA
Segregation That No One Seeks
Inaugurating Understanding or Repackaging Explanation?
On Ad Hoc Hypotheses
The Limitations of Hierarchical Organization
The Role of Randomness in Darwinian Evolution
Published
Thermodynamic Entropy and Its Relation to Probability in Classical Mechanics
Against Regular and Irregular Characterizations of Mechanisms
The Pitfalls of Microphysical Realism
Actual Causation by Probabilistic Active Paths
Preface
Sequence Matters: Genomic Research and the Gene Concept
Theory Change and Degrees of Success
The Problem of Piecemeal Induction
Style, but Substance: An Epistemology of Visual versus Numerical Representation in Scientific Practice
From Hacking’s Plurality of Styles of Scientific Reasoning to “Foliated” Pluralism: A Philosophically Robust Form of Ontologico-Methodological Pluralism
Scientific Realism and the Divide et Impera Strategy: The Ether Saga Revisited
Dalton’s Chemical Atoms versus Duhem’s Chemical Equivalents
Exposing the Vanities—and a Qualified Defense—of Mechanistic Reasoning in Health Care Decision Making
Damn the Consequences: Projective Evidence and the Heterogeneity of Scientific Confirmation
Reflections on Path Dependence and Irreversibility: Lessons from Evolutionary Biology
On Jaynes’s Unbelievably Short Proof of the Second Law
The Aharonov Approach to Equilibrium
On the Virtues of Cursory Scientific Reductions
True Lies: Realism, Robustness, and Models
From Arbuthnot to Boltzmann: The Past Hypothesis, the Best System, and the Special Sciences
Expanding the Scope of Explanatory Idealization
Mechanisms, Types, and Abstractions
On Identifying Background-Structure in Classical Field Theories
Evolution and Constraints on Variation: Variant Specification and Range of Assessment
Comparing Probabilistic Measures of Explanatory Power
Preserving the Concept of Race: A Medical Expedient, a Sociological Necessity
The Prospective Stance in Realism
Scientific Explanation between Principle and Constructive Theories
The Principal Principle and Theories of Chance: Another Bug?
On the Role of Bridge Laws in Intertheoretic Relations
Some Difficulties for the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives
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