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Empirically Adequate but Observably False Theories
empirical adequacy truth coordinated isomorphism strict empirical adequacy
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2016/6/14
I show that a theory may be empirically adequate according to van Fraassen's definition even though it can be observationally determined that the theory is false. I suggest a modification of empirical...
The Semantics of Scientific Theories
semantics of theories logical empiricism received view theoretical terms vagueness analyticity analytic-synthetic distinction
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2016/6/14
Marian Przełęcki’s semantics for the Received View is a good explication of Carnap’s position on the subject, anticipates many discussions and results from both proponents and opponents of t...
What's Right With a Syntactic Approach to Theories and Models?
syntactic view semantic view received view structuralism axiomatization formalization genetic method structure pure structure embedding
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2016/5/30
Syntactic approaches in the philosophy of science, which are based on formalizations in predicate logic, are often considered in principle inferior to semantic approaches, which are based on formaliza...
The structure of idealization in biological theories:the case of the Wright-Fisher model
idealization theory biology possible worlds
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2016/5/30
In this paper we present a new framework of idealization in biology. We characterize idealizations as a network of counterfactual and hypothetical conditionals that can exhibit different “degrees of c...
On emergence in gauge theories at the 't Hooft limit
Emergence gauge theories the 't Hooft limit quantum chromodynamics supersymmetry planarity integrability
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2016/5/27
Quantum field theories are notoriously difficult to understand, physically as well as philosophically. The aim of this paper is to contribute to a better conceptual understanding of gauge quantum fiel...
The Plausibility of Moral Error Theories
Error theory Mackie Richard Joyce
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2014/11/10
The project that resulted in this work had two main goals. The first was to sort out the most plausible form of the moral error theory, the view made popular by J.L. Mackie in his Ethics: Inventing Ri...
Regularity Theories Reassessed (2006)
Causation Regularity Theory Determinism
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2011/9/6
Until very recently, regularity accounts of causation have virtually vanished from the scene. Problems encountered within other theoretical frameworks have lately induced philosophers working on causa...