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1. From the Current Trends in Philosophy of Science to the Prospects for the Near Future (Wenceslao J. Gonzalez)
Part I. Philosophy of Medicine and Climate Change. 2. Philosophy of science meets medicine (again): a clearer-sighted view of the virtues of blinding and of tests for blinding in clinical trials (John Worrall)
3. Environmental decision-making under uncertainty (Joe Roussos, Richard Bradley, and Roman Frigg)
Part II. Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence and the Internet. 4. Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy of Science from the 1990s to the early 2020s (Donald Gillies and Marco Gillies)
5. Whatever happened to the logic of discovery? From transparent logic to alien reasoning (Thomas Nickles)
6. Scientific Side of the Future of the Internet as a Complex System. The Role of Prediction and Prescription of Applied Sciences (Wenceslao J. Gonzalez)
Part III. New Analyses of Probability and the Use of Mathematics in Practice. 7. From Logical to Probabilistic Empiricism: Arguments for Pluralism (Maria Carla Galavotti)
8. Instrumental Realism
A New Start for Mathematics and Scientific Practice (Ladislav Kvasz)
Part IV. Scientific Progress Revisited. 9. Scientific Progress and the Search for Truth (Philip Kitcher)
10. The Logic of Qualitative Progress in Nomic, Design, and Explicative Research (Theo Kuipers)
Part V. Scientific Realism and the Instrumentalist Alternative. 11. Explicating Inference to the Best Explanation (Ilkka Niiniluoto)
12. Re-inflating the Realism-Instrumentalism Controversy (Stathis Psillos)
Index.
Part I. Philosophy of Medicine and Climate Change. 2. Philosophy of science meets medicine (again): a clearer-sighted view of the virtues of blinding and of tests for blinding in clinical trials (John Worrall)
3. Environmental decision-making under uncertainty (Joe Roussos, Richard Bradley, and Roman Frigg)
Part II. Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence and the Internet. 4. Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy of Science from the 1990s to the early 2020s (Donald Gillies and Marco Gillies)
5. Whatever happened to the logic of discovery? From transparent logic to alien reasoning (Thomas Nickles)
6. Scientific Side of the Future of the Internet as a Complex System. The Role of Prediction and Prescription of Applied Sciences (Wenceslao J. Gonzalez)
Part III. New Analyses of Probability and the Use of Mathematics in Practice. 7. From Logical to Probabilistic Empiricism: Arguments for Pluralism (Maria Carla Galavotti)
8. Instrumental Realism
A New Start for Mathematics and Scientific Practice (Ladislav Kvasz)
Part IV. Scientific Progress Revisited. 9. Scientific Progress and the Search for Truth (Philip Kitcher)
10. The Logic of Qualitative Progress in Nomic, Design, and Explicative Research (Theo Kuipers)
Part V. Scientific Realism and the Instrumentalist Alternative. 11. Explicating Inference to the Best Explanation (Ilkka Niiniluoto)
12. Re-inflating the Realism-Instrumentalism Controversy (Stathis Psillos)
Index.