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Showing 1 to 20 of 166 for “"Philosophy of science"”.
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Objectivity in Feminist Philosophy of Science
Feminist philosophy of science has long been considered a fringe element of philosophy of science as a whole. A careful consideration of the treatment of the key concept of objectivity by such philosophical heavyweights as Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper, followed by an analysis of the concept of …
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Taking the naturalistic turn seriously : a critique of naturalized philosophy of science
This thesis attempts to assess the viability of arguing for realism from a naturalistic perspective. It demonstrates that extant attempts to carry out this project fail to establish realism as a better explanation of science than various antirealist alternatives (particular attention is given to …
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Exploring the nature of models in science, philosophy of science, and science education
The term model is ubiquitous in science, philosophy of science, and science education. Although there is no general consensus regarding its definition, the traditional approach in all of these disciplines has always been to view models as some kind of representation of reality. Recently, however, …
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Michel Serres’s Philosophy of Limits. Passages between the Philosophy of Science and Critical Theory
This thesis examines Michel Serres’s philosophy of limits. Its aim is to trace limit formations as operative functions of thought, which perform interdisciplinary translations between philosophy of science, aesthetics, and critical theory. In order to pursue this aim, a number of Serres’s works …
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The Structure of Meta-Scientific Claims: Toward a Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies
This dissertation examines the structure of epistemological claims made about science within the field of science and technology studies (STS). The social constructivist invocation to put science in "context" necessarily implies a logic of justification. Made explicit, this logic of justification …
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Constructive skepticism and the philosophy of science of Gassendi and Locke (Pierre Gassendi, John Locke)
… knowledge and concluded that sure knowledge of the world is won primarily by empirical or sense-based studies. These views on our general knowledge and certainty support a variety of claims concerning scientific knowledge in particular. On the basis of their constructive skepticist stances, …
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TANGLED INFERENCES: AN INVESTIGATION OF INFERENCE WEBS IN METAPHYSICS, EPISTEMOLOGY, AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
This dissertation is a collection of three papers. The second and third papers are primarily about inference webs. An inference web is a structured collection of claims and principles in which inferential relationships (including association and common use) dictate the covert meaning of the …
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Religious belief and the problems of cognitivity and commitment: A reappraisal based on contemporary philosophy of science
… perspective sharply differentiate religion from science, maintaining that religious beliefs are either not cognitive or cognitively different and that religious commitment (RC) must be absolute. I suggest that both perspectives utilize inadequate and unnecessary perceptions of science as well as …
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An analysis of the educational-political setting of Wolfhart Pannenberg's "Theology & the Philosophy of Science" in consideration of contemporary challenges to German university theology
A historical analysis of both the setting of Wolfhart Pannenberg’s 1973 publication, Wissenschaftstheorie und Theologie and its reception in the light of educational-political challenges concerning university theology in Germany contributes to a revival of a largely dormant contemporary theological …
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Introducing a Kantian interpretation of quantum physics : in accordance with Kant's philosophy of science in the Critique of the power of judgment, reinterpreted and reworked with special attention to the supersensible realm
In this thesis I confront the problem of indeterminism in quantum physics. The first pioneers accepted indeterminism as part of their Copenhagen interpretation and it was incorporated in Von Neumann's formulation (as the "projection postulate"). But how deep does this indeterminism go? With the …
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The Logical Structure of Scientific Knowledge-Systems
This thesis seeks to assess and develop the use of formal methods in philosophy of science. More specifically, I argue that the particular strand of philosophy of science that concerns itself with the formal structure of scientific knowledge has focused excessively on the structure of scientific …
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Naturalism & Objectivity: Methods and Meta-methods
… 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 frequentist …
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Prospects for a cognitive science of science
Cognitive science of science attempts to explain a range of phenomena familiar to philosophers of science, such as theory choice and scientific discovery. The appeal to cognitive science may be seen as an attempt to naturalize the philosophy of science. I examine and criticize several of the most …
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Tracing Social Science: The Manuscript Review Process
… Sociological Review between 1977 and 1982 and professional-biographical characteristics of authors, editors and reviewers were examined to identify and describe factors influencing the decision to publish or reject manuscripts. Following a review of the relevant literature in the sociology, …
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Subject and Aesthetic Interface - an inquiry into transformed subjectivities
The present PhD-thesis seeks new definitions of human subjectivity in an age of technoscience and a networked, globalized, Information Society. The perspective presented relates to Philosophy of Science, which includes the Human, the Natural, the Social and the Life Sciences. The project is …
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Sociological critique and the philosophy of practice
A vicious circle obtains: the philosophy of science cannot or will not concede the scientificity of sociology nor consequently provide it with a sound methodological foundation; while sociology in its search for theoretical validation constantly undermines the presuppositions of the philosophy of …
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Power as knowing participation in change: A model for Nursing intervention
This study explored the role of philosophy of science in the development of theory within a science and the determination of appropriate methods of study and verification of theory. The current debate between historicism and logical empiricism was discussed briefly and nursing models consistent …
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Figures in air : multiplicity and aurality as social architecture
… can be understood as potential documentation of my activities from 2002-2012. They can also be read as a constellation of theoretical statements relating to: art, music, thinking, economy, being, governance, psychology, music cognition, audio, diagrammatics, speculation, technology, …
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Rethinking scientific literacy standards
This thesis explores some of the implications of contemporary science studies for current science education reforms. The scientific literacy effort proposed by Project 2061 is described and criticized with regard to its educational and philosophical commitments. It is argued that a number of …
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