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Marian Smoluchowski (1872–1917) was an outstanding Polish physicist, known e.g. as a pioneer of statistical physics. His short paper about history of physics in Poland represents the initial study in this field.
Paweł Polak
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Applying Experimental Philosophy to Investigate Economic Concepts : Choice, Preference, and Nudge [PDF]
In this chapter I outline how experimental philosophy can be fruitfully applied to economics as a science, and contribute empirically to debates concerning conceptual and methodological problems in economics.
Michiru Nagatsu, Nagatsu, Michiru
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What philosophy, if any, is needed for cognitive science?
The question posed in the title serves as a springboard to examine the interdisciplinary nature of cognitive science and the role philosophy should play.
Philip V. Kargopoulos
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Formation of the Classical Philosophy of Science and the Evolution of Its Forms [PDF]
The modern philosophy of science is genetically related to the formed in the modern era classical philosophy of science. The latter, in turn, was formed under the influence of developments in the New European (“new”) science in the late 16th – 18th ...
Nadezhda V. Brianik
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Does Temperature have a Metric Structure? [PDF]
Is there anything more to temperature than the ordering of things from colder to hotter? Are there also facts, for example, about how much hotter (twice as hot, three times as hot...) one thing is than another?
Bradford Skow, Skow, Bradford
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Some trends in the philosophy of physics [PDF]
A short review of some recent developments in the philosophy of physics is presented. I focus on themes which illustrate relations and points of common interest between philosophy of physics and three of its 'neighboring' fields: Physics, metaphysics and
Zinkernagel, Henrik +2 more
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Toward a Pragmatist Philosophy of Science [PDF]
This three-part essay begins with a diagnosis of the career of general philosophy of science in the tradition begun by Hempel’s reform of logical positivism.
Philip Kitcher, Kitcher, Philip
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Semantics of Philosophy of Science in Islamic Philosophy [PDF]
In Islamic philosophy, as much as get away from ontology and get over to epistemology, gradually get away from Plato and Plotinus and it have inclined to Aristotelian realism and intellectualism.
Ebrahim Dadjoo
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Philosophy in science – a case study of the reception of the Special and the General Theory of Relativity in Kraków and Lwów before 1925 [PDF]
A centenary of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity brings forward some questions with regard to the impact of Einstein’s theory on philosophy.
Paweł Polak
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This article attempts to reconstruct and analyze some selected philosophical views of the Polish physicist Małgorzata Głódź, especially within the context of her links with the interdisciplinary milieu in Kraków (known as the “Kraków School of Philosophy
Kamil Trombik
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