Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation

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This volume, the second in the Springer series Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective, contains selected papers from the workshops organised by the ESF ...

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Prediction and Prescription in the Science of the Artificial: Information Science and Complexity1.Maria G. Bonome
Against Pointillisme: a call to arms.Jeremy Butterfield
Causality and Explanation: Issues from Epidemiology.Raffaella Campaner
The Gibbs paradox revisited.Dennis Dieks
The Alexandroff Present and Minkowski Spacetime: Why it Cannot Do What it has Been Asked to Do1.Mauro Dorato
The alexandroff resent and Minkowski pacetime: Ps.Mauro Dorato
Explanation and Interpretation in the Sciences of Man.Jan Faye
Historical narratives, evidence, and explanations.Paolo Garbolino
Complexity in Economics and Prediction: The Role of Parsimonious Factors1.Wenceslao J. Gonzalez
Inferences to Causal Relevance from Experiments.Gerd Graßhoff
An Explication of the Use of Inference to the Best Explanation.Adam Grobler
COMPARING PART-WHOLE REDUCTIVE EXPLANATIONS IN BIOLOGY AND PHYSICS.Alan C. Love & Andreas Hüttemann
Causality and evidence discovery in epidemiology.Michael Joffe
Imagination and Explanation in History.Peter Kemp
Kant on Chance and Explanation.Berna Kilinc
The Rise and Fall of Falsificationism in the Light of Neurath's Criticism1.Artur Koterski
Methodological Higher-Level Interdisciplinarity by Scheme-Interpretationism: Against Methodological Separatism of the Natural, Social, and Human Sciences.Hans Lenk
The Arrival of the Fittest.Peter McLaughlin
A Formal Logic for the Abduction of Singular Hypotheses1.Joke Meheus
Probabilities in branching structures.Thomas Müller
Edgar Zilsel on Historical Laws.Elisabeth Nemeth
A locus for “now”.Tomasz Placek
The Scope and Limits of the No Miracles Argument1.Stathis Psillos
What's Wrong with the Pragmatic-Ontic Account of Mechanistic Explanation?Alexander Reutlinger
Weyl's principle, cosmic time and quantum fundamentalism.Svend E. Rugh & Henrik Zinkernagel
Shifting the (non-relativized) a priori: Hans Reichenbach on causality and probability (1915–1932).Thomas A. Ryckman & D. Dieks
“Every System of Scientific Theory Involves Philosophical Assumptions”(Talcott Parsons). The Surprising Weberian Roots to Milton Friedman's Methodology.Eric Schliesser
Invariance, Mechanisms and Epidemiology.Samuel Schindler
Not throwing out the baby with the bathwater: Bell's condition of local causality mathematically 'sharp and clean'.Michiel P. Seevinck & Jos Uffink
Russell on Non-Demonstrative Inference.Graham Stevens
Shifting the (Non-Relativized) A Priori: Hans Reichenbach on Causality and Probability (1915–1932).Michael Stöltzner
Holistic Social Causation and Explanation.Raimo Tuomela
Carnap's Theories of Confirmation.Pierre Wagner
An objective Bayesian account of confirmation.Jon Williamson
The No Miracles Intuition and the No Miracles Argument.John Worrall

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