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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Kitcher"”.
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A Defense of Arithmetical Platonism (Variations on a Theme by Kitcher)
… Nature of Mathematical Knowledge (1984) Philip Kitcher develops an exciting and insightful picture of arithmetical reality by considering mathematical activities--not objects--as ontologically primitive. Yet, his account goes astray because of his nominalistic interpretation of the properties of …
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On the Functions of Morality
… Gibbard, David Wong, Richard Joyce, and Philip Kitcher.</p>
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Όψεις της φιλοσοφίας των μαθηματικών πρακτικών
… Ο όρος «μαθηματική πρακτική» εισάγεται από τον Kitcher ως μια εννοιολογική διαδικασία που σχετίζεται με την διαμόρφωση της μαθηματικής γνώσης, πέρα από αισθητηριακές ή εργαστηριακές προσεγγίσεις, και περιλαμβάνει ιστοριογραφικές και διαλογικές πτυχές. Η ανθρωπολογική προσέγγιση του Ferreiros …
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Scientific Realism and the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements
… relationships that comprise the table. Philip Kitcher of Science, Truth, and Democracy leaves himself open to two interpretations about the metaphysics of pluralism. One of these is indefensible; the other is quite well supported by the plurality of successful periodic tables.
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Evolution And Ethics
… Ruse (2012), Peter Singer (2011), and Philip Kitcher (2011) each adopt Darwinism and on that basis arrive at descriptive instinctivism, descriptive rationalism, and prescriptive instinctivism, respectively. Our current level of understanding about evolution implies that prescriptive …
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Clusters' last stand: Toward a theory of the process of meaning-making in science
… (ii) theories of reference (Scheffler, Putnam, Kitcher). Such a theory is not only based on more plausible assumptions and principles, but, in addition, it satisfies the main adequacy requirements formulated by proponents of a "cognitive-historical approach" (Shapere, Nersessian, Kuhn). I am …
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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 …