Romanian studies in philosophy of science [electronic resource] / Ilie Pârvu, Gabriel Sandu, Iulian D. Toader, editors.
Pârvu, Ilie, editor.; Sandu, Gabriel, editor.; Toader, Iulian D., editor.
2015
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Title Romanian studies in philosophy of science [electronic resource] / Ilie Pârvu, Gabriel Sandu, Iulian D. Toader, editors.
ISBN 9783319166551 electronic book
3319166557 electronic book
9783319166544
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16655-1
Published Cham : Springer, 2015.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (viii, 301 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-16655-1 doi
Call Number Q175
Dewey Decimal Classification 501
Summary This book presents a collection of studies by Romanian philosophers, addressing foundational issues currently debated in contemporary philosophy of science. It offers a historical survey of the tradition of scientific philosophy in Romania. It examines some problems in the foundations of logic, mathematics, linguistics, the natural and social sciences. Among the more specific topics, it discusses scientific explanation, models, and mechanisms, as well as memory, artifacts, and rules of research. The book is useful to those interested in the philosophy of real science, but also to those interested in Romanian philosophy.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 4, 2015).
Added Author Pârvu, Ilie, editor.
Sandu, Gabriel, editor.
Toader, Iulian D., editor.
Series Boston studies in the philosophy and history of science ; volume 313.
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PART A: SCIENTIFIC PRACTICES AND PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITIONS
Chapter 1: The Tradition of Scientific Philosophy in Romania; Ilie Pârvu
Chapter 2: What Ought to be Done and What is Forbidden: Rules of Scientific Research as Categorical or Hypothetical Imperatives; Mircea Flonta
PART B: MIND, LANGUAGE, AND TECHNOLOGY
Chapter 3: Memory as Window on the Mind; Radu Bogdan
Chapter 4: A Momentous Triangle: Ontology, Methodology and Phenomenology in the Philosophy of Language; Manuela Ungureanu
Chapter 5: On Rule Embedding Artifacts; Gheorghe Ştefanov
Chapter 6: Issues in Modeling Open-Ended Evolution; Andreea Eșanu
PART C: LOGIC, SEMANTICS, AND SOCIAL CHOICE
Chapter 7: On a Combination of Truth and Probability: Probabilistic Independence-Friendly Logic; Gabriel Sandu
Chapter 8: A Remark on a Relational Version of Robinson?s Arithmetic Q; Mihai Ganea
Chapter 9: The Simple Majority Rule in a Three-Valued Logic Framework; Adrian Miroiu
Chapter 10: A Free Logic for Fictionalism; Mircea Dumitru
PART D: QUANTUM PHENOMENA, SCIENTIFIC REALISM, AND EMERGENCE
Chapter 11:Quantum Mechanics: Knocking at the Gates of Mathematical Foundations; Radu Ionicioiu
Chapter 12: The Quantum Vacuum; Sorin Paraoanu
Chapter 13: Structural Pluralism and S-dualities: A Project in String Realism; Ioan Muntean
Chapter 14: The Prospects for Fusion Emergence; Alexandru Manafu
PART E: EXPLANATION, MODELS, AND MECHANISMS
Chapter 15: Scientific Progress, Understanding, and Unification; Sorin Bangu
Chapter 16: When is a Mechanistic Explanation Satisfactory? Reductionism and Antireductionism in the Context of Mechanistic Explanations; Tudor Baetu
Chapter 17: Causal and Mechanistic Explanations, and a Lesson from Ecology; Viorel Pâslaru
Chapter 18: Against Harmony: Infinite Idealization and Causal Explanation; Iulian D. Toader.

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