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Editorial: Varieties of agency: exploring new avenues. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Psychol
Gangopadhyay N, Knappik F, Puusepp V.
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Why dignity is a troubling concept for AI ethics. [PDF]

open access: yesPatterns (N Y)
Rueda J   +12 more
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Philosophy of Science

2015
This chapter introduces and addresses some basic questions regarding the philosophy of science. For example, what is science, and how can it be differentiated from other social activities? What constitutes a scientific fact, and what characterizes scientific knowledge? What does it mean when one says that smoking causes cancer?
Holm, Søren, Hofmann, Bjørn
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From the Philosophy of Science to the Philosophy of the Sciences

Journal of Philosophical Research, 2015
The philosophy of science took shape as an autonomous discipline in the first decades of the Twentieth Century in connection with the movement known as logical positivism or logical empiricism. According to logical empiricists philosophy of science ought to perform a “rational reconstruction” aimed at exhibiting the logical structure of scientific ...
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Science and Philosophy [PDF]

open access: possibleThe Journal of Philosophy, 1930
THE suggestion by Prof. F. G. Donnan (NATURE, June 7, 1930) that an international conference of scientists and philosophers, and perhaps others, might help toward clarifying the present confused state of men's thinking on most of the major problems of Nature and human life, has received considerable notice—in America, at least.
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Philosophy of Science and Science of Philosophy

Philosophy of Science, 1935
It is proposed to examine the consequences which ensue if philosophy is deliberately oriented around the methods and results of science. That such reorientation has been more or less unconsciously taking place for centuries is evident; the problem demands particular discussion at this time only because the reorientation has gone so far and with such ...
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Philosophy and Science [PDF]

open access: possibleSoviet Studies in Philosophy, 1962
In the sense in which astronomy or botany are sciences, philosophy is not a science. Philosophers have theories, but their theories do not enable them to make predictions; they can not be empirically confirmed or refuted in the way that scientific theories can. But, it will be objected, this is not true of all the sciences. Palaeontologists do not make
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Philosophy of the Sciences [PDF]

open access: possibleProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, 1935
Michael Baur, Leonard H. Otting
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