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Novelty,coherence,and Mendeleev's periodic table
novel prediction use-novelty coherence Dmitri Mendeleev periodic table
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2016/6/15
Predictivism is the view that successful predictions of ‘novel’ evidence carry more confirmational weight than accommodations of already known evidence. Novelty, in this context, has traditionally bee...
Causal inference,mechanisms,and the Semmelweis case
methodology causal inference numerical tables mechanisms animal experiments
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2016/6/15
Semmelweis's discovery of the cause of puerperal fever around the middle of the 19th century counts among the paradigm cases of scientific discovery. For several decades, philosophers of science have ...
Confessions of a Complexity Skeptic
complexity economics neuroscience policy analysis history and philosophy of science methodology
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2016/6/15
Three objections to Max Urchs's paper on complexity are discussed. First, Urchs's macroeconomic illustrations of the benefits of complexity thinking are open to more conventional interpretations. Seco...
The Need for Empirically-Led Synthetic Philosophy
paradigm philosophy of nature synthetic philosophy
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2016/6/15
The problem of unifying knowledge represents the frontier between science and philosophy. Science approaches the problem analytically bottom-up whereas, prior to the end of the nineteenth century, phi...
The Universal Arrow of Time
Arrow of Time Laws of Nature Paradigm Theory Change Mathematical Philosophy of Nature Qualitative Philosophy of Nature Reductionism
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2016/6/15
The Arrow of Time is an empirical feature of nature – time has a direction from the past to the future. However, the laws of Quantitative Science do not generally include the Arrow of Time. It is show...
Galilei invariance and the welcher Weg problem
Galilei invariance which-way problem anti-reductionism
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2016/6/15
If it is possible to detect the path of an atom in a double-slit atom interferometer, then interference will not be observed even if path detection causes no change in the atom's momentum. This fact w...
Response to `Local and global definitions of time:Cosmology and quantum theory'
Local global definitions time Cosmology quantum theory
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2016/6/15
I will discuss the notion of time and spatial finiteness from the perspective of observational cosmology. Our observed universe is well described at early times by small fluctuations in the spatial gr...
Philosophers,Autistics&Three Year Olds-Semantics&Intuition
semantics externalism meaning intuition direct reference naming
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2016/6/15
Externalist theories in natural language semantics have become the orthodoxy since Kripke is widely thought to have refuted descriptive theories of reference. This shift may be seen in developments in...
Richard Jeffrey (1983, 23) said that Newcomb’s Problem may be seen “as a rock on which ... Bayesianism ... must founder” and the problem has been almost universally conceived as reconciling the scienc...
I explore two logical possibilities for the discretization of time, termed ``instantaneous" and ``smeared". These are found by discretizing a continuous theory, and the resulting structure of configur...
Bohmian mechanics without wave function ontology
Bohmian mechanics quantum mechanics quantum potential wave function explanation causation
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2016/6/15
In this paper I critically assess different three-dimensionalist interpretations of Bohmian mechanics in order to evaluate the prospects of interpreting Bohmian mechanics without committing to a wave ...
An Adynamical,Graphical Approach to Quantum Gravity and Unification
quantum gravity unification lattice gauge theory Regge calculus path integral graphs
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2016/6/15
We propose an adynamical, background independent approach to quantum gravity and unification whereby the fundamental elements of Nature are graphical units of space, time and sources (in parlance of q...
Carnap's Response to the Charge that Verificationism is Self-Undermining
Carnap verificationism Putnam principle of tolerance logical positivism pragmatism
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2016/6/15
The classic “self-undermining objection” to the verificationist criterion of meaning states that the criterion does not meet its own standard: since verificationism is not empirically confirmable, ana...
The Contextual Character of Causal Evidence
Causal Inference Evidence Contextualism Interventions Manipulability Theories of Causation James Woodward
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2016/6/15
I argue for the thesis that causal evidence is context-dependent. The same causal claim may be warranted by the same piece of evidence in one context but not another. I show this in particular for the...
Fictions,Conditionals,and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific fictions realism stellar astrophysics conditionals
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2016/6/15
This article argues in favour of an inferential role for fictions in scientific modelling. The argument proceeds by means of a detailed case study, namely models of the internal structure of stars in ...