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We should redefine scientific expertise: an extended virtue account
An expert is commonly considered to be somebody who possesses the right kind of knowledge and skills to find out true answers for questions in a...
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Through Numerical Simulation to Scientific Knowledge
Numerical simulations are used for the approximate prediction of situations under strictly defined conditions. They are based on mathematical models...
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Pragmatism and Scientific Perspectivism
Scientific perspectivism, orPerspectivescientific perspectivism perspectival realismRealismperspectival realism, offers a middle ground between...
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Decentring the discoverer: how AI helps us rethink scientific discovery
This paper investigates how intuitions about scientific discovery using artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to improve our understanding of...
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Genuine versus bogus scientific controversies: the case of statins
Science progresses through debate and disagreement, and scientific controversies play a crucial role in the growth of scientific knowledge. However,...
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A pragmatic approach to scientific change: transfer, alignment, influence
I propose an approach that expands philosophical views of scientific change, on the basis of an analysis of contemporary biomedical research and...
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First-person perspectives and scientific inquiry of autism: towards an integrative approach
What role should the expertise of the autistic communities play in sha** the category of autism compared to the role played by science? This...
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Beyond Relativism? Rorty and MacIntyre on Historicism and Progress
In this chapter, I argue that despite Rorty and MacIntyre’s shared historicism, critics are right to claim that Rorty is more of a relativist than...
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Logical Journeys: A Scientific Autobiography
A short scientific biography emphasising the main phases of Abramsky’s research: duality theory and domains in logical form, game semantics,...
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Explaining ambiguity in scientific language
The idea that ambiguity can be productive in data science remains controversial. Efforts to make scientific publications and data intelligible to...
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Deriving Qur’anic Ahkam on Socio-scientific Themes: Examples
The reflection of the theoretical and applied constructs of the philosophy of science in its comparative Islamic perspective is carried on in this...
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Scientific Advances, Ethical Oversight and Legal Institutionality
Over the last decades, ethical oversight and legal institutionality have paid increasing and special attention to research related to the advancement...
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Schlick, Weyl, Husserl: On Scientific Philosophy
I develop and comment on the controversy between Schlick, Husserl and his follower Weyl, concerning the ideal of a scientific philosophy. The main...
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On the relationship between scientific theory and ontology in everything flows
In their anthology Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology , Daniel J. Nicholson and John Dupré argue that modern theories of...
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Scientific Understanding, Fictional Understanding, and Scientific Progress
The epistemic account and the noetic account hold that the essence of scientific progress is the increase in knowledge and understanding,...
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When Arne met J. L.: attitudes to scientific method in empirical semantics, ordinary language philosophy and linguistics
In the autumn of 1959, Arne Naess and J. L. Austin, both pioneers of empirical study in the philosophy of language, discussed their points of...
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Scientific ethos and ethical dimensions of education
This research examines the ethical dimensions of ethical thought aimed at reflecting fundamentals or leading principles of the production and...
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Epidemiological Models and Epistemic Perspectives: How Scientific Pluralism may be Misconstrued
In a scenario characterized by unpredictable developments, such as the recent COVID-19 pandemic, epidemiological models have played a leading part,...
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Scientific Realism and Linguistics: Two Stories of Scientific Progress
In this paper, I draw on the scientific realism debate to assess progress in two linguistic subdisciplines: Chomskyan syntax and Labovian study of...