Switch to: References

Add citations

You must login to add citations.
  1. Unique events: The underdetermination of explanation.Aviezer Tucker - 1998 - Erkenntnis 48 (1):61-83.
    The paper explicates unique events and investigates their epistemology. Explications of unique events as individuated, different, and emergent are philosophically uninteresting. Unique events are topics of why-questions that radically underdetermine all their potential explanations. Uniqueness that is relative to a level of scientific development is differentiated from absolute uniqueness. Science eliminates relative uniqueness by discovery of recurrence of events and properties, falsification of assumptions of why-questions, and methodological simplification e.g. by explanatory methodological reduction. Finally, an overview of contemporary philosophical disputes (...)
    Direct download (5 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   14 citations  
  • The illness of psychoanalysis. [REVIEW]Aviezer Tucker - 1995 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 26 (4):657-665.
    Experimental and theoretical studios are reported of the current-voltage characteristics and Josephson radiations from granular Y1Ba2Cu3Oy bridges. We show that the granular structure of bridges can be understood as a series connected independent and inhomogeneous resistively shunted junction army. When we take typical values of junction critical parameters, the experimental results are well understood quantitatively.
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  • Scientific Historiography Revisited: An Essay on the Metaphysics and Epistemology of History.Aviezer Tucker - 1998 - Dialogue 37 (2):235-.
    RÉSUMÉ: La pragmatique et la sémantique de l’historiographie révèlent une fragmentation croissante qui s’étend par-delà les écoles jusqu’aux historiens individuels. Alors que les scientifiques normalisent les données pour qu’elles s’ajustent aux théories, les historiens interprètent leurs théories, de manières incompatibles entre elles, pour qu’elles s’ajustent aux différents cas historiques. Les difficultés qui en découlent dans la communication historiographique remettent en cause les philosophies herméneutiques de l’historiographie et redonnent un nouvel intérêt à la question d’une historiographie scientifique. Mais les réponses existantes (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  • Book review. [REVIEW]Jennifer Croissant, John Angus Campbell, Richard C. Jennings, Robert G. Hudson, Paul Rosen, Linda L. Layne, Roland Bal & Dhruv Raina - 1998 - Social Epistemology 12 (2):153-213.
    Invention by Design: How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing by Henry PetroskiBut Is It Science? The Philosophical Question in the Creation/Evolution Controversy by Michael RuseImpure Science: Aids, Activism and the Politics of Knowledge by Steven EpsteinA purposeless history and a ‘ Brave New World’ for animalsCity of Bits: Space, Place and the Infobahn by William J. Mitchell and Telecommunications and the City: Electronic Spaces, Urban Places by Stephen Graham and Simon MarvinExpecting Trouble: Surrogacy, Fetal Abuse & New Reproductive Technologies (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
    		•
  • The Ontic Account of Scientific Explanation.Carl F. Craver - 2014 - In Marie I. Kaiser, Oliver R. Scholz, Daniel Plenge & Andreas Hüttemann (eds.), Explanation in the Special Sciences: The Case of Biology and History. Springer Verlag. pp. 27-52.
    According to one large family of views, scientific explanations explain a phenomenon (such as an event or a regularity) by subsuming it under a general representation, model, prototype, or schema (see Bechtel, W., & Abrahamsen, A. (2005). Explanation: A mechanist alternative. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 36(2), 421–441; Churchland, P. M. (1989). A neurocomputational perspective: The nature of mind and the structure of science. Cambridge: MIT Press; Darden (2006); Hempel, C. G. (1965). Aspects of scientific (...)
    $87.89 new   (collection)    View on Amazon.com
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   77 citations