Models and methods in the philosophy of science : selected essays
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Models and methods in the philosophy of science : selected essays
(Synthese library, v. 226)
Kluwer Academic, c1993
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注記
Bibliography: p. [483]-505
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
The thirty-one papers collected in this volume represent most of the arti cles that I have published in the philosophy of science and related founda tional areas of science since 1970. The present volume is a natural succes sor to Studies in the Methodology and Foundations of Science, a collection of my articles published in 1969 by Reidel (now a part of Kluwer). The articles are arranged under five main headings. Part I contains six articles on general methodology. The topics range from formal methods to the plurality of science. Part II contains six articles on causality and explanation. The emphasis is almost entirely on probabilistic approaches. Part III contains six articles on probability and measurement. The impor tance of representation theorems for both probability and measurement is stressed. Part IV contains five articles on the foundations of physics. The first three articles are concerned with action at a distance and space and time, the last two with quantum mechanics. Part V contains eight articles on the foundations of psychology. This is the longest part and the articles reflect my continuing strong interest in the nature of learning and perception. Within each part the articles are arranged chronologically. I turn now to a more detailed overview of the content. The first article of Part I concerns the role of formal methods in the philosophy of science. Here I discuss what is the new role for formal methods now that the imperialism of logical positivism has disappeared.
目次
Preface. Part I: General Methodology. 1. The Role of Formal Methods in the Philosophy of Science. 2. The Study of Scientific Revolutions: Theory and Methodology. 3. Limitations of the Axiomatic Method in Ancient Greek Mathematical Sciences. 4. The Plurality of Science. 5. Heuristics and the Axiomatic Method. 6. Representation Theory and the Analysis of Structure. Part II: Causality and Explanation. 7. Causal Analysis of Hidden Variables. 8. Scientific Causal Talk. 9. Explaining the Unpredictable. 10. Conflicting Intuitions about Causality. 11. When are Probabilistic Explanations Possible? 12. Non-Markovian Causality in the Social Sciences with Some Theorems on Transitivity. Part III: Probability and Measurement. 13. Finite Equal-Interval Measurement Structures. 14. The Measurement of Belief. 15. The Logic of Clinical Judgment: Bayesian and Other Approaches. 16. Arguments for Randomizing. 17. Propensity Representations of Probability. 18. Indeterminism or Instability, Does it Matter? Part IV: Physics. 19. Descartes and the Problem of Action at a Distance. 20. Some Open Problems in the Philosophy of Space and Time. 21. Aristotle's Concept of Matter and its Relation to Modern Concepts of Matter. 22. Popper's Analysis of Probability in Quantum Mechanics. 23. Probabilistic Causality in Quantum Mechanics. Part V: Psychology. 24. From Behaviorism to Neobehaviorism. 25. Learning Theory for Probabilistic Automata and Register Machines, with Applications to Educational Research. 26. Is Visual Space Euclidean? 27. Davidson's Views on Psychology as a Science. 28. Current Directions in Mathematical Learning Theory. 29. On Deriving Models in the Social Sciences. 30. The Principle of Invariance with Special Reference to Perception. 31. Can Psychological Software be Reduced to Physiological Hardware? References. Author Index.
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