
quine`s argument from despair
... problematic (1946, 57-77). Still, their problems were worse on the doctrinal side. For Quine, it was Hume who showed that it is impossible to establish a deductive relation between theory and evidence even if both are couched in the same sensory language; neither general statements nor singular stat ...
... problematic (1946, 57-77). Still, their problems were worse on the doctrinal side. For Quine, it was Hume who showed that it is impossible to establish a deductive relation between theory and evidence even if both are couched in the same sensory language; neither general statements nor singular stat ...
Popper and Xenophanes - ORCA
... experienced instances, as a deep-seated illusion. Relatedly, he also rejected verificationism, both as a theory of meaning and (more importantly) as either a potential theory of knowledge or a criterion of demarcation between science and non-science. For the true path of Enlightenment consisted in n ...
... experienced instances, as a deep-seated illusion. Relatedly, he also rejected verificationism, both as a theory of meaning and (more importantly) as either a potential theory of knowledge or a criterion of demarcation between science and non-science. For the true path of Enlightenment consisted in n ...
Deductive Reasoning
... either (i) does not depend on any input beliefs and tends to yield truths or (ii) depends on input beliefs and tends to yield truths when the input beliefs are true. Reliabilism faces several problems. For instance, it has difficulty explaining why thinkers who are unreliable through no fault of the ...
... either (i) does not depend on any input beliefs and tends to yield truths or (ii) depends on input beliefs and tends to yield truths when the input beliefs are true. Reliabilism faces several problems. For instance, it has difficulty explaining why thinkers who are unreliable through no fault of the ...
Scientific Explanation- Causation and Unification
... phenomena can be shown to be fundamentally similar”8. Phenomena in this context means regularities in the nature. Causal concept of explanation is based on Salmon’s definition of causality as causal interaction. Causal interaction is “an intersection of two processes …[in which] both processes are m ...
... phenomena can be shown to be fundamentally similar”8. Phenomena in this context means regularities in the nature. Causal concept of explanation is based on Salmon’s definition of causality as causal interaction. Causal interaction is “an intersection of two processes …[in which] both processes are m ...
Quining Naturalism
... legitimate external questions are pragmatic in nature: Should we adopt this framework? Would it be useful? Carnap thus becomes a pluralist about ontological commitment—explicitly so, in the sense that he associates distinct ontological commitment with distinct linguistic frameworks, and at least im ...
... legitimate external questions are pragmatic in nature: Should we adopt this framework? Would it be useful? Carnap thus becomes a pluralist about ontological commitment—explicitly so, in the sense that he associates distinct ontological commitment with distinct linguistic frameworks, and at least im ...
The Futility of any Anti-Metaphysical Position
... emphasized. It is perhaps, following Comte’s positivism that Rudolf Carnap asserts that metaphysics is an expression of an attitude toward life. Metaphysics he says, originated from mythology. The daily fears of the early man he says, gave rise to mythology and from mythology into poetry which in tu ...
... emphasized. It is perhaps, following Comte’s positivism that Rudolf Carnap asserts that metaphysics is an expression of an attitude toward life. Metaphysics he says, originated from mythology. The daily fears of the early man he says, gave rise to mythology and from mythology into poetry which in tu ...
moving beyond unification and modeling: a reconsideration of
... is quantum field theory, we then begin to accept an ontology not of things but of structures. For this reason, the appeal to quantum field theory begins to undermine the very project of constructing an ontology, properly understood as studying things, which indicates that there are other ways of doi ...
... is quantum field theory, we then begin to accept an ontology not of things but of structures. For this reason, the appeal to quantum field theory begins to undermine the very project of constructing an ontology, properly understood as studying things, which indicates that there are other ways of doi ...
the liberalism of karl popper
... excluded by scientific laws. Such an identification would indeed be contrary to Popper’s fallibilism: it would also contradict Popper’s affirmation that “... it is necessary to recognise as one of the principles of any unprejudiced view of politics that everything is possible in human affairs; and m ...
... excluded by scientific laws. Such an identification would indeed be contrary to Popper’s fallibilism: it would also contradict Popper’s affirmation that “... it is necessary to recognise as one of the principles of any unprejudiced view of politics that everything is possible in human affairs; and m ...
The cognitive and the social - Christophe Heintz
... psychologists describe how and why the description is possible. Macnamara, however, explains the human possibility of doing logic with the basic principles of logic. When he considers our access to logical connectors he merely asserts that logical connectors are already in our minds. The use we make ...
... psychologists describe how and why the description is possible. Macnamara, however, explains the human possibility of doing logic with the basic principles of logic. When he considers our access to logical connectors he merely asserts that logical connectors are already in our minds. The use we make ...
quine - University of St Andrews
... judged by the same pragmatic criteria as all the rest in the web of belief. We could pick other logical constants – but picking `is male’ just wouldn’t serve any useful purpose. The logical constants we picked work fine, so we stick to them. We can change that, and pick others, but we won’t. ...
... judged by the same pragmatic criteria as all the rest in the web of belief. We could pick other logical constants – but picking `is male’ just wouldn’t serve any useful purpose. The logical constants we picked work fine, so we stick to them. We can change that, and pick others, but we won’t. ...
MEDIAEVAL THOUGHT-EXPERIMENTS: The Metamethodology of
... very directly toward early modern science. . . the whole enterprise of many a medieval scholar who treated motions was worlds away from that of Galileo and his confrères. . . medieval discussions of motion should not be viewed solely as providing some kind of background from, or against which, earl ...
... very directly toward early modern science. . . the whole enterprise of many a medieval scholar who treated motions was worlds away from that of Galileo and his confrères. . . medieval discussions of motion should not be viewed solely as providing some kind of background from, or against which, earl ...
Epistemic Line of Explanation for Experimental
... of causality and those on the importance attributed to laws. Let us start from the latter, with Railton, who maintains: “Where the orthodox covering-law account of explanation propounded by Hempel and others was right has been in claiming that explanatory practice in the sciences is in a central way ...
... of causality and those on the importance attributed to laws. Let us start from the latter, with Railton, who maintains: “Where the orthodox covering-law account of explanation propounded by Hempel and others was right has been in claiming that explanatory practice in the sciences is in a central way ...
Epistemic Virtues and Epistemic Values
... various places hands, feet, a head, and other pieces, very well depicted, it may be, but not for the representation of a single person; since these fragments would not belong to one another at all, a monster rather than a man would be put together from them. A little later in the Preface, Copernicus ...
... various places hands, feet, a head, and other pieces, very well depicted, it may be, but not for the representation of a single person; since these fragments would not belong to one another at all, a monster rather than a man would be put together from them. A little later in the Preface, Copernicus ...
Induction Synonyms epagōgē, inductio Abstract How induction was
... animal chews by moving the lower jaw; that animal does; the other animal does. If we conclude that all animals chew by moving the lower jaw, the conclusion will be overturned when we discover the Nile crocodile, for it moves the upper jaw. For an example of a reliable induction, Ockham (c. 1287–134 ...
... animal chews by moving the lower jaw; that animal does; the other animal does. If we conclude that all animals chew by moving the lower jaw, the conclusion will be overturned when we discover the Nile crocodile, for it moves the upper jaw. For an example of a reliable induction, Ockham (c. 1287–134 ...
Popper`s Double Standard of Scientificity in
... himself, had criticized the methodology (inductive method) classical empiricism employed in order to show how we arrive at scientific laws. According to this method, one is justified, under certain conditions, in generalizing from a finite number of observation statements to a universal statement, i ...
... himself, had criticized the methodology (inductive method) classical empiricism employed in order to show how we arrive at scientific laws. According to this method, one is justified, under certain conditions, in generalizing from a finite number of observation statements to a universal statement, i ...
Socializing Naturalized Philosophy of Science
... evaluate hypotheses and lead them to choose the best ones. The mechanisms that each scientist possesses are simulated by a computer program called ECHO, which simulates, among other things, Darwin's selection of the evolutionary hypothesis. If each scientist possesses mechanisms for selecting the be ...
... evaluate hypotheses and lead them to choose the best ones. The mechanisms that each scientist possesses are simulated by a computer program called ECHO, which simulates, among other things, Darwin's selection of the evolutionary hypothesis. If each scientist possesses mechanisms for selecting the be ...
Popper`s Paradoxical Pursuit of Natural Philosophy - Philsci
... were the first to struggle with central problems of natural philosophy in something like their modern form. Their ideas, most notably the idea that there is an underlying unity or invariance in nature, the idea of symmetry, and the idea that nature is made up of atoms in motion in the void, have ha ...
... were the first to struggle with central problems of natural philosophy in something like their modern form. Their ideas, most notably the idea that there is an underlying unity or invariance in nature, the idea of symmetry, and the idea that nature is made up of atoms in motion in the void, have ha ...
Social Theory
... deduction, where the result must be true if the major and minor premises are true. The act of insight that “the beans are from this bag” may not be true at all, as someone else outside our purview might have put them there. Nevertheless an abductive inference strikes us often as a reasonable (workin ...
... deduction, where the result must be true if the major and minor premises are true. The act of insight that “the beans are from this bag” may not be true at all, as someone else outside our purview might have put them there. Nevertheless an abductive inference strikes us often as a reasonable (workin ...
information technology problems in the context of logic of science
... technology” (S. Lem). This information is used functionally without becoming “the pabulum for reflection”, even less “the reflection for information”. This phenomenon of absence of necessary formation aligns the fundamental and applied “non-existence” of contemporary history, which does not compreh ...
... technology” (S. Lem). This information is used functionally without becoming “the pabulum for reflection”, even less “the reflection for information”. This phenomenon of absence of necessary formation aligns the fundamental and applied “non-existence” of contemporary history, which does not compreh ...
- Philsci
... one big, persistent assumption about the universe, namely that it is such that no disunified or aberrant theory is true. It assumes that the universe is such that there are no pockets of peculiarity, at specific times and places, or when specific conditions arise (gold spheres, gold and diamond dust ...
... one big, persistent assumption about the universe, namely that it is such that no disunified or aberrant theory is true. It assumes that the universe is such that there are no pockets of peculiarity, at specific times and places, or when specific conditions arise (gold spheres, gold and diamond dust ...
A Realist Theory of Science
... can allow a transitive dimensions and satisfy criterion (1)’; so that, in this respect, it is an improvement on empiricism. According to such a dynamized transcendental idealism knowledge is given structure by a sequence of models, rather than a fixed set of a priori rules. However in neither its s ...
... can allow a transitive dimensions and satisfy criterion (1)’; so that, in this respect, it is an improvement on empiricism. According to such a dynamized transcendental idealism knowledge is given structure by a sequence of models, rather than a fixed set of a priori rules. However in neither its s ...
HOLISM AND REALISM - Jacques Maritain Center
... degree of knowledge that is not empirical science at all: the philosophy of nature. Located at the end of the spectrum most distant from inductive knowledge, this philosophical knowledge genuinely accesses intelligible essences in themselves. Maritain relies on this metaphysical account of the abstr ...
... degree of knowledge that is not empirical science at all: the philosophy of nature. Located at the end of the spectrum most distant from inductive knowledge, this philosophical knowledge genuinely accesses intelligible essences in themselves. Maritain relies on this metaphysical account of the abstr ...
the critique of positivism
... relationships between the items here distinguished. (1) According to the positivist conception of science, science aims at the explanation and prediction of observable phenomena by presenting these as derivable from general laws that hold in all regions of space and time. The truth or falsity of the ...
... relationships between the items here distinguished. (1) According to the positivist conception of science, science aims at the explanation and prediction of observable phenomena by presenting these as derivable from general laws that hold in all regions of space and time. The truth or falsity of the ...
Unity and Revolutions: A Paradigm for Paradigms
... has been implicit in the methods of physics since Galileo. It has persisted throughout all theoretical revolutions from Galileo’s time to our own. It might be said to be a paradigm for the assessment of Kuhnian paradigms. It is accepted as a permanent item of scientific knowledge independent of empi ...
... has been implicit in the methods of physics since Galileo. It has persisted throughout all theoretical revolutions from Galileo’s time to our own. It might be said to be a paradigm for the assessment of Kuhnian paradigms. It is accepted as a permanent item of scientific knowledge independent of empi ...
Unity and Revolutions: A Paradigm for Paradigms - Philsci
... The electro-weak theory of Weinberg and Salam partially unifies the electromagnetic and weak forces. The quark theory of Gell-Mann and Zweig brought greater unity to the theory of fundamental particles: a large number of hadrons were reduced to just six quarks. Quantum chromodynamics brought furthe ...
... The electro-weak theory of Weinberg and Salam partially unifies the electromagnetic and weak forces. The quark theory of Gell-Mann and Zweig brought greater unity to the theory of fundamental particles: a large number of hadrons were reduced to just six quarks. Quantum chromodynamics brought furthe ...