EPSA Philosophy of Science: Amsterdam 2009

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This is a collection of high-quality research papers in the philosophy of science, deriving from papers presented at the second meeting of the European Philosophy of Science Association in Amsterdam, October 2009. Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Modeling Strategies for Measuring Phenomena In- and Outside the Laboratory....Pages 1-11 Mating Intelligence, Moral Virtues, and Methodological Vices....Pages 13-22 Rejected Posits, Realism, and the History of Science....Pages 23-32 Explanation and Modelization in a Comprehensive Inferential Account....Pages 33-42 Standards in History: Evaluating Success in Stem Cell Experiments....Pages 43-53 Modeling Scientific Evidence: The Challenge of Specifying Likelihoods....Pages 55-65 Persistence in Minkowski Space-Time....Pages 67-75 Genuine versus Deceptive Emotional Displays....Pages 77-88 Tales of Tools and Trees: Phylogenetic Analysis and Explanation in Evolutionary Archaeology....Pages 89-100 Sustaining a Rational Disagreement....Pages 101-110 Philosophical Accounts of Causal Explanation and the Scientific Practice of Psychophysics....Pages 111-121 Meta-analysis as Judgment Aggregation....Pages 123-135 The Uninvited Guest: ‘Local Realism’ and the Bell Theorem....Pages 137-149 On Tins and Tin-Openers....Pages 151-160 The Problem of Identifying the System and the Environment in the Phenomenon of Decoherence....Pages 161-174 Formal and Material Theories in Philosophy of Science: A Methodological Interpretation....Pages 175-185 Axiological Scientific Realism and Methodological Prescription....Pages 187-197 Consensus Formation in Networked Groups....Pages 199-215 Mirror Neurons and Social Cognition: An Expanded Simulationist Framework....Pages 217-226 Identity in Physics: Properties, Statistics and the (Non-)Individuality of Quantum Particles....Pages 227-237 The Fiber Bundle at the Gates of Metaphysics. Challenging Tim Maudlin’s Proposal....Pages 239-251 The Phase Rule and the Notion of Substance....Pages 253-262 Pattern and Process in Evo-Devo: Descriptions and Explanations....Pages 263-274 Three Conceptions of Explaining How Possibly—and One Reductive Account....Pages 275-286 An Improper Introduction to Epistemic Utility Theory....Pages 287-301 Defending Underdetermination or Why the Historical Perspective Makes a Difference....Pages 303-313 An Information Semantic Account of Scientific Models....Pages 315-327 Scientific Realism and Historical Evidence: Shortcomings of the Current State of Debate....Pages 329-340 Venetian Sea Levels, British Bread Prices and the Principle of the Common Cause: A Reassessment....Pages 341-354 Coincidences and How to Reason About Them....Pages 355-374 Stopping Rules and Data Monitoring in Clinical Trials....Pages 375-386 Two Comments on the Common Cause Principle in Algebraic Quantum Field Theory....Pages 387-402 The Role of Unification in Explanations of Facts....Pages 403-413 Calibration....Pages 415-425 Observational Equivalence of Deterministic and Indeterministic Descriptions and the Role of Different Observations....Pages 427-439 Demarcating Presentism....Pages 441-450 Back Matter....Pages 451-457