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The Ethical Embeddedness of the Economic Inequality Debate
How do scholars formulate arguments about economic inequality? What is the role of empirical analysis? In what ways, if any, is the debate informed...
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The Experiment Paradox in Physics
Modern physics is founded on two mainstays: mathematical modelling and empirical verification. These two assumptions are prerequisite for the...
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Neurath’s Epistemology of Science
In the previous chapter I argued that Neurath is correctly categorised as an epistemological naturalist, but noted that his naturalism does not...
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Does the Present Overdetermine the Past?
In an influential series of papers, Cleland (2001, 2002, 2011) argued that historical natural scientists employ a distinctive methodology—which...
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What Can Artificial Intelligence Do for Scientific Realism?
The paper proposes a synthesis between human scientists and artificial representation learning models as a way of augmenting epistemic warrants of...
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Bipartite Metatheory in Application
The previous chapter demonstrated the compatibility of Neurath and Carnap’s projects, but only in the negative sense of eliminating lingering worries...
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“The value-free ideal, the autonomy thesis, and cognitive diversity”
Some debates about the role of non-epistemic values in science discuss the so-called Value-Free Ideal together with the autonomy thesis, to the point...
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A deductive variation on the no miracles argument
The traditional No-Miracles Argument (TNMA) asserts that the novel predictive success of science would be a miracle, and thus too implausible to...
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Incommensurability and Metaincommensurability. Kind Change, World Change and Indirect Refutation
The idea that there is incommensurability in science has been controversial since its popularization by Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend. While...
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Quasi-structural Realism
Devising an appropriate formal framework for structural realism has long been an issue in the development of this position. Décio Krause has...
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Rebuttal to Douglas and Elliott
In “Should We Strive to Make Science Bias‑Free? A Philosophical Assessment of the Reproducibility Crisis”, I argue that the problem of bias in...
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Humanistic interpretation and machine learning
This paper investigates how unsupervised machine learning methods might make hermeneutic interpretive text analysis more objective in the social...
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Newton, Goethe and the Alleged Underdetermination of Ray Optics
Did Goethe devise an empirically viable theory of classical ray optics? Or can we at least make use of his ideas to propose one? And if so, does this...
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Unexpected quantum indeterminacy
Recent philosophical discussions about metaphysical indeterminacy have been substantiated with the idea that quantum mechanics, one of the most...
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Evidence, Inference, and Empiricism
This chapter examines how the burden of proof can be discharged. It is argued that evidence in support of a questioned hypothesis is persuasively...
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Naturalism and the Vienna Circle
Despite the growth of interest in the project in the late 1980s and early 1990s, naturalized epistemology has existed for a lot longer. Its origins...
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Empiricism and Philosophy of Physics
This book presents a thoroughly empiricist account of physics. By providing an overview of the development of empiricism from Ockham to van Fraassen...
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The Powers of Quantum Mechanics: A Metametaphysical Discussion of the “Logos Approach”
This paper presents and critically discusses the “logos approach to quantum mechanics” from the point of view of the current debates concerning the...
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Are Moral Predicates Subjective? A Corpus Study
The nature of moral judgments, and, more specifically, the question of how they relate, on the one hand, to objective reality and, on the other, to...
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Taking Skepticism Seriously
Responses to skeptical arguments need to be serious : they need to explain not only why some premise of the argument is false, but also why the...