
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 2011
Series: The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective
ISBN (Hardback): 9789400711792
ISBN (eBook): 9789400711808
Full citation:
Dennis Dieks, Stephan Hartmann, Thomas Uebel, Marcel Weber, Wenceslao J. Gonzalez (eds), Explanation, prediction, and confirmation, Berlin, Springer, 2011
Explanation, prediction, and confirmation
Contents
What's wrong with the pragmatic-ontic account of mechanistic explanation?
Alexander Reutlinger
141-152
Comparing part-whole reductive explanations in biology and physics
Alan C. Love, Andreas Hüttemann
183-202
Normativity is the key to the difference between the human and the natural sciences
Wolfgang Spohn
241-251
Methodological higher-level interdisciplinarity by scheme-interpretationism
against methodological separatism of the natural, social, and human sciences
Hans Lenk
253-267
Prediction and prescription in the science of the artificial
information science and complexity
Maria G. Bonome
331-343
The Alexandroff present and Minkowski spacetime
why it cannot do what it has been asked to do
Mauro Dorato
379-394
Not throwing out the baby with the bathwater
Bell's condition of local causality mathematically "sharp and clean"
M. P. Seevinck, J. Uffink
425-450
Shifting the (non-relativized) a priori
Hans Reichenbach on causality and probability (1915–1932)
Michael Stöltzner
465-475
"Every system of scientific theory involves philosophical assumptions' (Talcott Parsons)
the surprising Weberian roots to Milton Friedman's methodology
Eric Schliesser
533-543