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How to foster scientists’ creativity [PDF]
Creativity Studies, 2016 Scientific progress can be credited to creative scientists, who constantly ideate new theories and experiments. I explore how the three central positions in philosophy of science – scientific realism, scientific pessimism, and instrumentalism – are ...
Seungbae Park
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“Defensive instrumentalism” and the legacy of New Labour's cultural policies [PDF]
Cultural Trends, 2012 The paper identifies “defensive instrumentalism” as a main feature that has characterised New Labour's cultural policies, and which constitutes an important aspect of its legacy.
Eleonora Belfiore
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Two types of epistemic instrumentalism [PDF]
SynthÈse, 2019 Epistemic instrumentalism views epistemic norms and epistemic normativity as essentially involving the instrumental relation between means and ends. It construes notions like epistemic normativity, norms, and rationality, as forms of instrumental or ...
Charles Côté-Bouchard
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On the infl uence of “tales” on the economics methodology formation and their use in the teaching process (Part I) [PDF]
Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: Серия «Экономика. Управление. Право», 2022 Introduction. This article is a justifi cation of the possibility of using tales to popularize economics, economic history and the history of economic thought. Theoretical analysis.
Cyril V. Fenin
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Investigating and Criticizing the Philosophical Foundations of M-Theory [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2023 Contemporary English physicist, Stephen Hawking, by authoring The Big Plan and introducing the M-theory, brought the long-running conflict between science and religion to a new level. Despite Hawking's claim of the ‘death of philosophy’, he has used some
Seyyed Aminollah Ahmadiani Moghaddam +1 more
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The Tension between the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives and Epistemic Instrumentalism
Problemos, 2022 In this paper, I develop a critical assessment of epistemic instrumentalism as advocated by Kyle Stanford (2006). Epistemic instrumentalism is based on the claim that the criterion for the reliability of any theory is the absence of what Stanford calls ‘
Lisa Zorzato
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Valenciana, 2022 De acuerdo con Larry Hickman, el estudio de las prácticas tecnológicas constituye la base y el modelo del proyecto filosófico de John Dewey: el análisis y la crítica de la experiencia humana.
Livio Mattarollo
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Re-Evaluation of Milton Friedman's View of Instrumentalism [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفهThe effects of philosophical concepts can be seen in various fields of science. One of the areas of influence of philosophy on economics has been around methodological concepts and epistemology. It seems that prominent economists of the 20th century were
Payam Fazli
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ON THE QUANTUM PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY POSTULATE
Filozofia i Nauka, 2022 This article analyses one of the trials aiming to bridge the incommensurability gap between special relativity and quantum mechanics in the form of postulating the quantum principle of relativity.
Jakub Kopyciński
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Critiques of Minimal Realism [PDF]
, 2017 Saatsi’s minimal realism holds that science makes theoretical progress. It is designed to get around the pessimistic induction, to fall between scientific realism and instrumentalism, and to explain the success of scientific theories.
Park, Seungbae
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