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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Giere"”.
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La interpretación filosófica de la imagen científica del mundo
… desarrollada por Frederick Suppe, Ronald Giere y Bas C. Van Fraasen, como por la Concepcion Estructuralista de Patrick Suppes, Sneed, Stegmuller y Ulises Moulines. Ambas concepciones proporcionan un conjunto de herramientas conceptuales que permiten atender al hecho de que la ciencia es, …
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Prospects for a cognitive science of science
… of science: Herbert Simon, Paul Thagard, Ronald Giere, and Paul Churchland. All share the same goals of naturalizing philosophy of science by using the empirical resources of cognitive science. I show that all four accounts ignore the important social nature of science, and share an adherence to …
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Biodiversity, distribution patterns and trophic position of meiobenthos associated with reduced environments at continental margins
… polychaetes, tardigrades and other groups (Giere 1993). Because marine nematodes have a worldwide distribution, are the most prominent members of the smaller-sized animals and have a direct link with the sediment and with the processes that occur immediately above the sediment, this group …
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The Productive Roles of Falsehoods In Science
… fictions (e.g. Suarez, Winsberg, Teller, Giere) identify fiction by pointing to properties of the scientific community - a model is fictional just if it is used as fictions are used, or if it was created with the intent that it be used as a fiction, or if most scientists regard it as a …
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Three problems of folk psychology: meaning, character, and domain
… synthesizes and extends insights from Ronald Giere, Philip Johnson-Laird, and Peter Godfrey-Smith. In chapter three I take up the problem of establishing folk psychology’s domain. This problem must be divided into two components: the first is specifying the role mindreading plays in the …
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Naturalism & Objectivity: Methods and Meta-methods
The error statistical account provides a basic account of evidence and inference. Formally, the approach is a re-interpretation of standard frequentist (Fisherian, Neyman-Pearson) statistics. Informally, it gives an account of inductive inference based on arguing from error, an analog of …