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Pojetí mechanismu v současné teorii vědy

Teorie vědy, 2016
Pojetí mechanismu v současné teorii vědy Abstrakt: Článek podává systematický kritický přehled o pojetí mechanismu v tzv. nové mechanistické filosofii (NMF). Nejdříve je popsán vznik a hlavní principy NMF. Je ukázáno, že NMF vznikla do značné míry jako
Arnošt Veselý
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The epistemological glaucoma and psematical paradox (autological feature of truth and heterological feature of false)

RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2018
In this paper is considered the main arguments of the deflationary concept of truth: the approaches of A. Tarski, W.V. Quine, H. Putnam and some others.
A N Pavlenko
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Pragmatist Perspectives on Theological and Religious Realism [PDF]

, 2014
This essay first applies the general issue of realism vs. antirealism to theology and the philosophy of religion, distinguishing between several different ”levels’ of the realism dispute in this context.
Pihlström, Sami
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Scientific Antirealists Have Set Fire to Their Own Houses [PDF]

, 2017
Scientific antirealists run the argument from underconsideration against scientific realism. I argue that the argument from underconsideration backfires on antirealists’ positive philosophical theories, such as the contextual theory of explanation (van ...
Park, Seungbae
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The Nature of Scientific Proof in the Age of Simulations

, 2014
Is numerical mimicry a third way of establishing truth?Comment: Published in American Scientist: Volume 102, Number 3, Pages 174 to 177 (http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2014/3/the-nature-of-scientific-proof-in-the-age-of ...
Heng, Kevin
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A family resemblance approach to the nature of science for science education [PDF]

, 2011
Although there is universal consensus both in the science education literature and in the science standards documents to the effect that students should learn not only the content of science but also its nature, there is little agreement about what that ...
Irzik, Gurol, Irzık, Gürol, Nola, Robert   +2 more
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Going Beyond the Kantian Philosophy: On McDowell's Hegelian Critique of Kant [PDF]

, 1999
The Kant-Hegel relation has a continuing fascination for commentators on Hegel, and understandbly so: for, taking this route into the Hegelian jungle can promise many advantages.
Stern, R.
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Empiricism, Structuralism and Scientific Change

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2008
In the last decades there was a structural turn in the classic debate between scientific realists and antirealists with empiricist orientation. Two main arguments support the realist conception: the ‘No Miracle Argument’ and the thesis of continuity. The
Susana Lucero
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Should We Believe in Cells, or Just Remain Agnostic about Them? A Critical Analysis Through Bas van Fraassen’s Lenses.

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology
For constructive empiricism, being observable or unobservable is defining for deciding about the empirical adequacy and epistemic value of theory components. The classification of microscopic images has been particularly debated.
Juan Larrain
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Epistemology of General Relativity [PDF]

For Einstein, simplicity is the main criterion in the theoretical choice when the experiments and observations do not give sufficiently clear indications .
Sfetcu, Nicolae
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