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- Björkman, Beyza
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Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World
- 2012
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Ingår i: International Studies in the Philosophy of Science. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0269-8595 .- 1469-9281. ; 26:3, s. 354-357
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Brunnander, Björn
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Natural selection and multiple realisation : A closer look
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Ingår i: International Studies in the Philosophy of Science. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0269-8595 .- 1469-9281. ; 27:1, s. 73-83
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The target of this paper is the claim that natural selection accounts for the multiple realisation of biological and psychological kinds. I argue that the explanation actually offered doesn’t provide any insight about the phenomenon since it presupposes multiple realisation as an unexplained premise, and this is what does all the work. The purported explanation mistakenly invokes the “indifference” of selection to structure as an additional explanatorily relevant factor. While such indifference can be explanatory in intentional contexts it isn’t a causal factor at all in non-intentional nature. The upshot is that once the necessary initial assumption about heterogeneity is accepted there is no further explanation to do.
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- Grüne-Yanoff, Till
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Isolation is Not Characteristic of Models
- 2011
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Ingår i: International Studies in the Philosophy of Science. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0269-8595 .- 1469-9281. ; 25:2, s. 119-137
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Modelling cannot be characterized as isolating, nor models as isolations. This article presents three arguments to that effect, against Uskali Maki's account of models. First, while isolation proceeds through a process of manipulation and control, modelling typically does not proceed through such a process. Rather, modellers postulate assumptions, without seeking to justify them by reference to a process of isolation. Second, while isolation identifies an isolation basea concrete environment it seeks to control and manipulatemodelling typically does not identify such a base. Rather, modellers construct their models without reference to concrete environments, and only later seek to connect their models to concrete situations of the real world. Third, Maki argues that isolation employs idealization to control for disturbing factors, but does not affect the factors or mechanisms that are supposed to be isolated. However, models typically make idealizing assumptions about the factors and mechanisms that are the focus of investigation. Thus, even the product of modelling often cannot be characterized as isolation.
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- Hansson, Sven Ove
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Cutting the Gordian Knot of Demarcation
- 2009
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Ingår i: International Studies in the Philosophy of Science. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0269-8595 .- 1469-9281. ; 23, s. 237-243
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A definition of pseudoscience is proposed, according to which a statement is pseudoscientific if and only if it (1) pertains to an issue within the domains of science, (2) is not epistemically warranted, and (3) is part of a doctrine whose major proponents try to create the impression that it is epistemically warranted. This approach has the advantage of separating the definition of pseudoscience from the justification of the claim that science represents the most epistemically warranted statements. The definition is used to explain why proponents of widely divergent criteria for the demarcation between science and pseudoscience tend to be in almost complete agreement on the particular demarcations that should presumably be based on these general criteria.
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- Hansson, Sven Ove
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Disciplines, Doctrines, and Deviant Science
- 2020
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Ingår i: International Studies in the Philosophy of Science. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0269-8595 .- 1469-9281. ; 33:1, s. 43-52
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This is a reply to a comment by Kare Letrud [Letrud, Kare. 2019. "The Gordian Knot of Demarcation: Tying Up Some Loose Ends." International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 32 (1): 3-11. doi:10.1080/02698595.2019.1618031] on the author's definition of pseudoscience. Pseudosciences are doctrines. An epistemic discipline that is defined solely by its area of study cannot be a pseudoscience, but if a discipline is bound to a doctrine, then it will be pseudoscientific if that doctrine is a pseudoscience. Contrary to most other types of shortcomings in science, pseudoscience involves the sustained promotion of teachings that block or impede the self-correcting and self-improving mechanisms in science. What makes pseudoscience more dangerous than other types of bad science is its doctrinal resistance to correction.
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- Needham, Paul
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Natural kind thingamajigs
- 2012
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Ingår i: International Studies in the Philosophy of Science. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0269-8595 .- 1469-9281. ; 26:1, s. 97-101
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- I criticize the treatment of natural kinds as some sort of object, advocated in a recent paper by Alexander Bird. The arguments he gives for regimenting an illustrative statement featuring chemical kinds in his preferred manner are not conclusive, and his criticisms of an alternative strategy involving universally quantified sentences fail. This is important because of the widespread but poorly supported assumption that expressions of natural kinds should be treated as singular referring terms.
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- Needham, Paul, 1948-
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Questioning the Justification of Past Science
- 2013
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Ingår i: International Studies in the Philosophy of Science. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0269-8595 .- 1469-9281. ; 27:1, s. 85-93
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- Petersen, Graciana, et al.
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From Euler to Navier-Stokes: A Spatial Analysis of Conceptual Changes in Nineteenth-century Fluid Dynamics
- 2014
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Ingår i: International Studies in the Philosophy of Science. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0269-8595 .- 1469-9281. ; 28:3, s. 235-253
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article provides a spatial analysis of the conceptual framework of fluid dynamics during the nineteenth century, focusing on the transition from the Euler equation to the Navier-Stokes equation. A dynamic version of Peter Gardenfors's theory of conceptual spaces is applied which distinguishes changes of five types: addition and deletion of special laws; change of metric; change in importance; change in separability; addition and deletion of dimensions. The case instantiates all types but the deletion of dimensions. We also provide a new view upon limiting case reduction at the conceptual level that clarifies the relation between the predecessor and successor conceptual framework. The nineteenth-century development of fluid dynamics is argued to be an instance of normal science development.
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