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Explicating Logical Independence
Accounts of (complete) logical independence which coincide when applied in the case of classical logic diverge elsewhere, raising the question of...
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Induction
Inductive reasoning, initially identified with enumerative induction (inferring a universal claim from an incomplete list of particular cases) is...
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Abduction and Truthlikeness
Earlier chapters deal with abductive inferences to explanations which are deductive or inductive-probabilistic. This more or less standard account...
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Ursprünge: Begründung der Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie
Die Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie speist sich aus den wiederholten Versuchen, zufälligen Prozessen, also Systemen, deren zukünftige Entwicklung gerade...
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Realists Waiting for Godot? The Verisimilitudinarian and the Cumulative Approach to Scientific Progress
After a brief presentation of the Verisimilitudinarian approach to scientific progress, I argue that the notion of estimated verisimilitude is too...
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Building Theories: The Heuristic Way
Theory-building is the engine of the scientific enterprise and it entails (1) the generation of new hypotheses, (2) their justification, and (3)...
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Priest on Negation
What conception of negation a dialetheist might have, in holding that a statement and its negation can both be true, has been the subject to...
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Verisimilitude: Why and How
When Karl Popper’s attempt to define verisimilitude or truthlikeness failed, some of his followers suggested that critical rationalists do not really...
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Confirmation and the ordinal equivalence thesis
According to a widespread but implicit thesis in Bayesian confirmation theory, two confirmation measures are considered equivalent if they are...
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Probabilistic Logics with Independence and Confirmation
The main goal of this work is to present the proof-theoretical and model-theoretical approaches to probabilistic logics which allow reasoning about...
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The Ghost of Pragmatism. Some Historical Remarks on the Debate on the Foundations of Probability
This paper explores the impact of pragmatism on logical empiricism in connection with the debate on the foundations of probability. Peirce...
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Epistemic democracy: beyond knowledge exploitation
This essay criticizes the current approach to epistemic democracy. Epistemic democrats are preoccupied with the question of how a society can best...
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Gibt es ein Ontologiedefizit im Feld von Erklärung, Erzählung und Verstehen?
Gibt es Ontologiedefizite im Rahmen der Erklärung-Verstehen-Erzählung-Literatur? Ich glaube, dass dem so ist. Wie wir ansatzweise gesehen haben,...
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Sign and Object : Quine’s forgotten book projectW. V. Quine’s first philosophical monograph, Word and Object (1960), is widely recognized as one of the most influential books of twentieth century...
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A Pluralist Foundation of the Mathematics of the First Half of the Twentieth Century
MethodologyA new hypothesis on the basic features characterizing the Foundations of Mathematics (FoM) is suggested.
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Genuine Coherence as Mutual Confirmation Between Content Elements
The concepts of coherence and confirmation are closely intertwined: according to a prominent proposal coherence is nothing but mutual confirmation....
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Anticipation in MES – Memory Evolutive Systems
The aim of this chapter is to study anticipation in autonomous adaptive systems, such as biological and social systems, which have a multilevel...
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Is the Future already Present? The Special Theory of Relativity and the Block Universe View
It is often claimed that the special theory of relativity (STR) necessitates the block universe view, according to which all the events spread out in...
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Epistemic Warfare
In this chapter I will illustrate how scientific modeling activity can be better described taking advantage of the concept of “epistemic warfare”,...
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Scientific Realism and the Patent System
The patent system appears to make three ontological assumptions often associated with scientific realism: there is a natural world that is...