Methodological prospects for scientific research : from pragmatism to pluralism
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Methodological prospects for scientific research : from pragmatism to pluralism
（Synthese library, v. 430）
Springer, c2020
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Description
This book highlights the existence of a diversity of methods in science, in general, in groups of sciences (natural, social or the artificial), and in individual sciences. This methodological variety is open to a number of consequences, such as the differences in the research according to levels of reality (micro, meso and macro), which leads to multi-scale modelling and to questioning "fundamental" parts in the sciences, understood as the necessary support for the whole discipline. In addition, this volume acknowledges the need to assess the efficacy of procedures and methods of scientific activity in engendering high quality results in research made; the relevance of contextual factors for methodology of science; the existence of a plurality of stratagems when doing research in empirical sciences (natural, social and of the artificial); and the need for an ethical component while developing scientific methods, because values should have a role in scientific research. The book is of interest to a broad audience of philosophers, academics in various fields, graduate students and research centers interested in methodology of science.
Table of Contents
Methodological Alternatives to Reductionism, Monism and UniversalismWenceslao J. Gonzalez
Part I: A New Framework for Methodological Prospects to Scientific ResearchLevels of Reality, Complexity, and Approaches to Scientific Method
Wenceslao J. Gonzalez
Multiscale Modeling: Explanation and EmergenceRobert W. Batterman
Part II: Pragmatist Approaches to Methodology of ScienceMethodological PragmatismNicholas Rescher
Methodological Incidence of the Realms of Reality: Prediction and ComplexityAmanda Guillan
Part III: Contextual Factors for Methodology of ScienceInformation and Pluralism: Consequences for Scientific MethodGiovanni Camardi
The Methodology of Theories in Context: The Case of Economic ClusteringCatherine Greene and Max Steuer
Part IV: Methodological Pluralism in Natural Sciences and Sciences of the ArtificialPlurality of Explanatory Strategies in Biology: Mechanisms and NetworksAlvaro Moreno
Scientific Prediction and Prescription in Plant Genetic improvement as an Applied Science of Design: The Natural and the ArtificialPedro Martinez Gomez
Part V: Methodological Pluralism in Social Sciences and Ethical ValuesChallenges to Validity from the Standpoint of Methodological Pluralism: The Case of Survey Research in EconomicsMaria Caamano
Economic Method and its Ethical Component: Pluralism, Objectivity and Values in Amartya Sen's ModelAlessandra Cenci
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