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Objectivity, value-free science, and inductive risk
In this paper I shall defend the idea that there is an abstract and general core meaning of objectivity, and what is seen as a variety of concepts or...
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Do Kuhnians have to be anti-realists? Towards a realist reconception of Kuhn’s historiography
It is quite unequivocal that Kuhn was committed to (some version of) naturalism; that he defended, especially in his later work, the autonomy of...
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Canguilhem’s Historiography of the Life Sciences
In this chapter, I revisit CanguilhemCanguilhem, Georges’s interpretation of BachelardBachelard, Gaston’s “normative turn” in epistemology and his...
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Local explanation in historiography of science
In this paper, I offer an explication of the notion of local explanation . In the literature, local explanations are considered as metaphysically and...
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Does Klio Count, Too? Measurement and Understanding in Historical Science
“History is the narration of events through which we learn about what happened in the past.”—With these words Isidore, Bishop of Seville, described...
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The Duty of Memory Revisited: Ricoeur’s Contribution to a Crisis in French Historiography
The relationship between memory and history, which has preoccupied historiography and the philosophy of history since the middle of the nineteenth...
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Roberto Torretti’s Philosophy of Science
In this chapter, we provide an analysis of Torretti’s main views in the general philosophy of science. I shall examine his Kantian take on...
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Introduction
This chapter introduces the articles by Marie C. Swabey, Thelma Z. Lavine, Grace A. de Laguna and Dorothy Walsh on the objectivity of scientific...
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Historicism in Tawhidi Philosophy of Science
The Qur’an explains the philosophy of historicism in terms of purposeful conflict between Truth and falsehood, with the final prevalence of Truth in...
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Epistemology and the History of Science: The Problem of Historical Epistemology in the Italian Debate of the 20th Century (With Some Unpublished Documents)
The deep link between the philosophy of science and the history of science in the thought of Ludovico Geymonat, Giulio Preti and Evandro Agazzi. The...
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Character and Everydayness: The Bottom-Up Historical Epistemology of Tosaka Jun
This paper attempts to examine how the concept of character in Tosaka’s philosophy presents us with the distinctive features of a situated...
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Introduction
In this book, the issue of causal explanation in historiography, the study of the past, is explored. The term “history” is reserved for the events,...
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From the Problem of Genius to the Integration of Philosophy, History, and Sociology of Science: Edgar Zilsel’s Life and Work Viewed in the Context of Recent Historiography and Research
Edgar Zilsel (1891–1944) was a typical outsider for several reasons – as a Jew, socialist, and scholar outside the university aiming at an integrated...
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The Plausibility of Thomas Kuhn’s Metaphysics
One of the elements of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions not only confused his readers but even Kuhn himself, namely, his talk about world...
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On the ‘Very Idea of a Philosophy of Science’: On Chemistry and Cosmology in Nietzsche and Kant
Beginning with a reflection on ‘conceptual schemes’ and ‘very’ ideas and proceeding to examine different approaches to thinking philosophy of science...
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Duality, Intensionality, and Contextuality: Philosophy of Category Theory and the Categorical Unity of Science in Samson Abramsky
Science does not exist in vacuum; it arises and works in context. Ground-breaking achievements transforming the scientific landscape often stem from...
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Reclaiming Our Health: Greek Feminist Birth Control Movements as a Form of Women’s Engagement with Science
Between 1976 and 1986, feminist birth control movements emerged within the Greek public sphere. Informed by the second wave of feminism, the...
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History and the Historiography of Cultures and Civilizations
Daya Krishna’s philosophyHistoriography ofHistory historyCultures, culture, and civilizationCivilizations is one of the most profound aspects of his...
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Fallacies in the Historiography of Generative Linguistics
The paper relates two different fields of research: the historiography of generative linguistics and argumentation theory, a central topic of which...