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Space-Perception and the Philosophy of Science
, 2023Drawing on the phenomenological tradition in the philosophy of science and philosophy of nature, Patrick Heelan concludes that perception is a cognitive, world-building act, and is therefore never absolute or finished.
P. Heelan, James L. Park
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Introduction to Philosophy of Science
Mind, Cognition, and Neuroscience, 2022COURSE DESCRIPTION The aim of this course is to give students a basic introduction to scientific practice and the kinds of knowledge produced thereby. Students will learn to understand how science differs from other ways of producing knowledge, and also ...
Carlos Mariscal
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Natural sciences, philosophy of science and the orientation of the social sciences
Journal of Information and Technology, 2021The Debate paper (by Siponen/Klaavuniemi) is part of the wider discourse whether or not, and with what consequences, Information Systems (IS) and other social sciences could be or should be ‘science’ (most recently McBride, 2018; Nelson, 2016).
D. Schlagwein
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From the Philosophy of Science to the Philosophy of the Sciences
Journal of Philosophical Research, 2015The 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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Bayesian Philosophy of Science
, 2019“Bayesian Philosophy of Science” addresses classical topics in philosophy of science, using a single key concept—degrees of beliefs—in order to explain and to elucidate manifold aspects of scientific reasoning.
J. Sprenger, S. Hartmann
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Journal of Economic Methodology, 2020
This article analyses how normative decision theory is understood by economists. The paradigmatic example of normative decision theory, discussed in the article, is the expected utility theory.
M. Małecka
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This article analyses how normative decision theory is understood by economists. The paradigmatic example of normative decision theory, discussed in the article, is the expected utility theory.
M. Małecka
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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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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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Philosophy of Science and Its Discontents
, 2019Fuller argues that philosophers of science need to take more seriously the psychological and sociological constraints on human rationality that make the production of knowledge an unavoidably imperfect enterprise. Includes a map of the field and question-
S. Fuller
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Philosophy of Science and Science of Philosophy
Philosophy of Science, 1935It 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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1990
We live in an age of science; and throughout this century in particular man has made extraordinary progress both in his understanding of the universe and in his use of scientific knowledge to improve the quality of life. All around us we find examples of its benefits: television, aeroplanes, new medicines to conquer disease, computers, synthetic ...
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We live in an age of science; and throughout this century in particular man has made extraordinary progress both in his understanding of the universe and in his use of scientific knowledge to improve the quality of life. All around us we find examples of its benefits: television, aeroplanes, new medicines to conquer disease, computers, synthetic ...
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