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Integrating Dark Matter, Modified Gravity, and the Humanities [PDF]
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (2022), 91:A1-A5, 2022 Editorial of a special issue on dark matter & modified gravity, distributed across the journals Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics and Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Published version of the open access editorial (in SHPS) available here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2021.08.015.
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Science and Philosophy: A Love-Hate Relationship [PDF]
Foundations of Science, 25, 2000, pp. 297-314, 2013 In this paper I review the problematic relationship between science and philosophy; in particular, I will address the question of whether science needs philosophy, and I will offer some positive perspectives that should be helpful in developing a synergetic relationship between the two.
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No Time for Time from No-Time [PDF]
Philosophy of Science 88 (5), 2021, 2023 Programs in quantum gravity often claim that time emerges from fundamentally timeless physics. In the semiclassical time program time arises only after approximations are taken. Here we ask what justifies taking these approximations and show that time seems to sneak in when answering this question.
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A QBist Ontology. Found Sci 27, 1253-1277 (2022), 2020 This paper puts forward an ontology that is indebted to QBism, Kant, Bohr, Schr\"odinger, the philosophy of the Upanishads, and the evolutionary philosophy of Sri Aurobindo. Central to it is that reality is relative to consciousness or experience. Instead of a single mind-independent reality, there are different poises of consciousness, including a ...
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Report on a Boston University Conference December 7-8, 2012 on 'How Can the History and Philosophy of Science Contribute to Contemporary U.S. Science Teaching?' [PDF]
Science & Education, September 2014, 23(9): 1853-1873, 2015 This is an editorial report on the outcomes of an international conference sponsored by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) (REESE-1205273) to the School of Education at Boston University and the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University for a conference titled: How Can the History and Philosophy of Science ...
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On Philomatics and Psychomatics for Combining Philosophy and Psychology with Mathematics [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 We propose the concepts of philomatics and psychomatics as hybrid combinations of philosophy and psychology with mathematics. We explain four motivations for this combination which are fulfilling the desire of analytical philosophy, proposing science of philosophy, justifying mathematical algorithms by philosophy, and abstraction in both philosophy and
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A (Basis for a) Philosophy of a Theory of Fuzzy Computation [PDF]
Kairos. Journal of Philosophy & Science, Vol 20, No 1, pp.
181-201, 2018, 2016 Vagueness is a linguistic phenomenon as well as a property of physical objects. Fuzzy set theory is a mathematical model of vagueness that has been used to define vague models of computation. The prominent model of vague computation is the fuzzy Turing machine.
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Conceptual Preconditions of Overcoming of Relativistic Intentions in Modern Philosophy of Science [PDF]
, 2014 The paper defends the thesis that it's possible to maintain some conceptual preconditions of overcoming of relativistic intentions in modern philosophy of science ("there are no any general foundations in philosophy of science"). We found two general foundations in philosophy of science as a minimum.
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Computational philosophy of science [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Philosophy of science attempts to describe all parts of the scientific process in a general way in order to facilitate the description, execution and improvements of this process. So far, all proposed philosophies have only covered existing processes and disciplines partially and imperfectly.
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Philosophy on time in the natural sciences and the humanities from analytical positions [PDF]
Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Filosofiya.
Sotsiologiya. Politologiya - Tomsk State University Journal of Philosophy,
Sociology and Political Science 2021(59), 25-33, 2021, 2016 This article aims at applying the approaches peculiar to analytic philosophy to the question about representation of the concept of time as a symbol which can reflect the bases of the modern natural sciences, social sciences and humanities. The main methods, which the author of this article uses, are speculative analysis and modeling.
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