Philosophy of Science

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This broad and insightful book presents current scholarship in important subfields of philosophy of science and addresses an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary readership. It groups carefully selected contributions into the four fields of I) philosophy of physics, II) philosophy of life sciences, III) philosophy of social sciences and values in science, and IV) philosophy of mathematics and formal modeling. Readers will discover research papers by Paul Hoyningen-Huene, Keizo Matsubara, Kian Salimkhani, Andrea Reichenberger, Anne Sophie Meincke, Javier Suárez, Roger Deulofeu, Ludger Jansen, Peter Hucklenbroich, Martin Carrier, Elizaveta Kostrova, Lara Huber, Jens Harbecke, Antonio Piccolomini d’Aragona and Axel Gelfert. This collection fosters dialogue between philosophers of science working in different subfields, and brings readers the finest and latest work across the breadth of the field, illustrating that contemporary philosophy of science has successfully broadened its scope of reflection. It will interest and inspire a wide audience of philosophers as well as scholars of the natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities. The volume shares selected contributions from the prestigious second triennial conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science/ Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsphilosophie (GWP.2016, March 8, 2016 – March 11, 2016). Front Matter ....Pages i-xxi Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Are There Good Arguments Against Scientific Realism? (Paul Hoyningen-Huene)....Pages 3-22 Quantum Gravity: A Dogma of Unification? (Kian Salimkhani)....Pages 23-41 On Predictions and Explanations in Multiverse Scenarios (Keizo Matsubara)....Pages 43-54 The Clock Paradox: Luise Lange’s Discussion (Andrea Reichenberger)....Pages 55-61 Front Matter ....Pages 63-63 Bio-Agency and the Possibility of Artificial Agents (Anne Sophie Meincke)....Pages 65-93 When Mechanisms Are Not Enough: The Origin of Eukaryotes and Scientific Explanation (Roger Deulofeu, Javier Suárez)....Pages 95-115 Functions, Malfunctioning, and Negative Causation (Ludger Jansen)....Pages 117-135 Disease Entities, Negative Causes, Multifactoriality, and the Naturalness of Disease Classifications. Remarks on Some Philosophical Misperceptions of Medical Pathology (Peter Hucklenbroich)....Pages 137-152 Front Matter ....Pages 153-153 Identifying Agnotological Ploys: How to Stay Clear of Unjustified Dissent (Martin Carrier)....Pages 155-169 The “Ought”-Dimension in Value Theory: The Concept of the Desirable in John Dewey’s Definition of Value and Its Significance for the Social Sciences (Elizaveta Kostrova)....Pages 171-185 From Stability to Validity: How Standards Serve Epistemic Ends (Lara Huber)....Pages 187-201 Front Matter ....Pages 203-203 Constitutive Inference and the Problem of a Complete Variation of Factors (Jens Harbecke)....Pages 205-221 A Partial Calculus for Dag Prawitz’s Theory of Grounds and a Decidability Issue (Antonio Piccolomini d’Aragona)....Pages 223-244 Models in Search of Targets: Exploratory Modelling and the Case of Turing Patterns (Axel Gelfert)....Pages 245-269 Back Matter ....Pages 271-274