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Scientific Explanation, Causality, and Agency A Free Energy Account

Scientific Explanation, Causality, and Agency: A Free Energy Account

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Majid D. Beni
July 12, 2024

This book draws on advances in computational neuroscience and theoretical biology to provide a clear and accessible agentive account of the nature of causality and scientific explanations. Instead of attempting to establish the elements of scientific explanation, such as causality, in a reality ...

The Explanatory Autonomy of the Biological Sciences

The Explanatory Autonomy of the Biological Sciences

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Wei Fang
May 27, 2024

This book argues for the explanatory autonomy of the biological sciences. It does so by showing that scientific explanations in the biological sciences cannot be reduced to explanations in the fundamental sciences such as physics and chemistry and by demonstrating that biological explanations are ...

The Tools of Neuroscience Experiment Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives

The Tools of Neuroscience Experiment: Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By John Bickle, Carl F. Craver, Ann-Sophie Barwich
May 27, 2024

This volume establishes the conceptual foundation for sustained investigation into tool development in neuroscience. Neuroscience relies on diverse and sophisticated experimental tools, and its ultimate explanatory target—our brains and hence the organ driving our behaviors—catapults the ...

Logical Empiricism and the Physical Sciences From Philosophy of Nature to Philosophy of Physics

Logical Empiricism and the Physical Sciences: From Philosophy of Nature to Philosophy of Physics

1st Edition

Edited By Sebastian Lutz, Adam Tamas Tuboly
September 25, 2023

This volume has two primary aims: to trace the traditions and changes in methods, concepts, and ideas that brought forth the logical empiricists’ philosophy of physics and to present and analyze the logical empiricists’ various and occasionally contrary ideas about the physical sciences and their ...

Science, Freedom, Democracy

Science, Freedom, Democracy

1st Edition

Edited By Péter Hartl, Adam Tamas Tuboly
September 25, 2023

This book addresses the complex relationship between the values of liberal democracy and the values associated with scientific research. The chapters explore how these values mutually reinforce or conflict with one another, in both historical and contemporary contexts. The contributors utilize ...

The Aesthetics of Scientific Experiments

The Aesthetics of Scientific Experiments

1st Edition

Edited By Milena Ivanova, Alice Murphy
June 16, 2023

The relationship between aesthetics and science has begun to generate substantial interest. However, for the most part, the focus has been on the beauty of theories, and other aspects of scientific practice have been neglected. This book offers a novel perspective on aesthetics in experimentation ...

Conjunctive Explanations The Nature, Epistemology, and Psychology of Explanatory Multiplicity

Conjunctive Explanations: The Nature, Epistemology, and Psychology of Explanatory Multiplicity

1st Edition

Edited By Jonah N. Schupbach, David H. Glass
May 12, 2023

Philosophers and psychologists are increasingly investigating the conditions under which multiple explanations are better in conjunction than they are individually. This book brings together leading scholars to provide an interdisciplinary and unified discussion of such “conjunctive explanations.” ...

Evidence Contestation Dealing with Dissent in Knowledge Societies

Evidence Contestation: Dealing with Dissent in Knowledge Societies

1st Edition

Edited By Karin Zachmann, Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio, Saana Jukola, Olga Sparschuh
February 21, 2023

This book examines the practices of contesting evidence in democratically constituted knowledge societies. It provides a multifaceted view of the processes and conditions of evidence criticism and how they determine the dynamics of de- and re-stabilization of evidence. Evidence is an essential ...

New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress

New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress

1st Edition

Edited By Yafeng Shan
November 11, 2022

This collection of original essays offers a comprehensive examination of scientific progress, which has been a central topic in recent debates in philosophy of science. Traditionally, debates over scientific progress have focused on different methodological approaches, notably the epistemic and ...

The Internet and Philosophy of Science

The Internet and Philosophy of Science

1st Edition

Edited By Wenceslao J Gonzalez
October 18, 2022

From the perspective of the philosophy of science, this book analyzes the Internet conceived in a broad sense. It includes three layers that require philosophical attention: (1) the technological infrastructure, (2) the Web, and (3) cloud computing, along with apps and mobile Internet. The study ...

Scientific Challenges to Common Sense Philosophy

Scientific Challenges to Common Sense Philosophy

1st Edition

Edited By Rik Peels, Jeroen de Ridder, René van Woudenberg
August 01, 2022

Common sense philosophy holds that widely and deeply held beliefs are justified in the absence of defeaters. While this tradition has always had its philosophical detractors who have defended various forms of skepticism or have sought to develop rival epistemological views, recent advances in ...

Structure, Evidence, and Heuristic Evolutionary Biology, Economics, and the Philosophy of Their Relationship

Structure, Evidence, and Heuristic: Evolutionary Biology, Economics, and the Philosophy of Their Relationship

1st Edition

By Armin W. Schulz
August 01, 2022

This book is the first systematic treatment of the philosophy of science underlying evolutionary economics. It does not advocate an evolutionary approach towards economics, but rather assesses the epistemic value of appealing to evolutionary biology in economics more generally. The author divides ...

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