Scientific Realism And Anti-Realism In Martin Heidegger's Philosophy Of Science,
2010
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Scientific Realism And Anti-Realism In Martin Heidegger's Philosophy Of Science, Archie Fields Iii
Honors Capstone Projects and Theses
No abstract provided.
Das ‚Problem Der Wissenschaft‘ Oder Nietzsches Philosophische Kritik Wissenschaftlicher Vernunft,
2010
Fordham University
Das ‚Problem Der Wissenschaft‘ Oder Nietzsches Philosophische Kritik Wissenschaftlicher Vernunft, Babette Babich
Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections
No abstract provided.
Cold War Origins Of The International Federation For Information Processing,
2010
Singapore Management University
Cold War Origins Of The International Federation For Information Processing, Ksenia Tatarchenko
Research Collection College of Integrative Studies
The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) was born as a nongovernmental federation with the main goal of bringing together computer professionals from countries in the East and West. This article examines the Cold War context of the IFIP's origins and the mechanisms its founders used to reconcile computing and politics and to construct computing as an international discipline.
Evolution And The Second Law Of Thermodynamics: Effectively Communicating To Non-Technicians,
2010
Gettysburg College
Evolution And The Second Law Of Thermodynamics: Effectively Communicating To Non-Technicians, Alexander Schreiber, Steven Gimbel
Philosophy Faculty Publications
Given the degree of disbelief in the theory of evolution by the wider public, scientists need to develop a collection of clear explanations and metaphors that demonstrate the working of the theory and the flaws in antievolutionist arguments. This paper presents tools of this sort for countering the anti-evolutionist claim that evolutionary mechanisms are inconsistent with the second law of thermodynamics. Images are provided to replace the traditional misunderstanding of the law, i.e., “everything always gets more disordered over time,” with a more clear sense of the way in which entropy tends to increase allowing a thermally isolated system access …
The Identical Rivals Response To Underdetermination,
2010
University at Albany, State University of New York
The Identical Rivals Response To Underdetermination, P.D. Magnus, Greg Frost-Arnold
Philosophy Faculty Scholarship
The underdetermination of theory by data obtains when, inescapably, evidence is insufficient to allow scientists to decide responsibly between rival theories. One response to would-be underdetermination is to deny that the rival theories are distinct theories at all, insisting instead that they are just different formulations of the same underlying theory; we call this the identical rivals response. An argument adapted from John Norton suggests that the response is presumptively always appropriate, while another from Larry Laudan and Jarrett Leplin suggests that the response is never appropriate. Arguments from Einstein for the special and general theories of relativity may …
God And Time: Relative Timelessness Reconsidered,
2010
Luther Seminary
God And Time: Relative Timelessness Reconsidered, Alan G. Padgett
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Mechanisms (Oxford),
2010
Butler University
Mechanisms (Oxford), Stuart Glennan
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Mechanism is undoubtedly a causal concept, in the sense that ordinary definitions and philosophical analyses explicate the concept in terms of other causal concepts such as production and interaction. Given this fact, many philosophers have supposed that analyses of the concept of mechanism, while they might appeal to philosophical theories about the nature of causation, could do little to inform such theories. On the other hand, methods of causal inference and explanation appeal to mechanisms. Discovering a mechanism is the gold standard for establishing and explaining causal connections. This fact suggests that it might be possible to provide an analysis …
Equations Without Equations: Challenges On A Way To A More Adequate Formalization Of Causality Reasoning In Physics,
2010
University of Texas at El Paso
Equations Without Equations: Challenges On A Way To A More Adequate Formalization Of Causality Reasoning In Physics, Juan Ferret
Selected Works Temporary Series
No abstract provided.
Ontological Status Of Relational Quantum Mechanics,
2010
University of Texas at El Paso
Ontological Status Of Relational Quantum Mechanics, Juan Ferret
Selected Works Temporary Series
No abstract provided.
The Flow Of Nectar And Blood: Maya Philosophy And World Vision,
2010
University of Texas at El Paso
The Flow Of Nectar And Blood: Maya Philosophy And World Vision, Juan Ferret
Selected Works Temporary Series
No abstract provided.
The Ontological Status Of Systems At The Juncture Of Quantum Mechanics And Relativity,
2010
University of Texas at El Paso
The Ontological Status Of Systems At The Juncture Of Quantum Mechanics And Relativity, Juan Ferret
Selected Works Temporary Series
No abstract provided.
Quantum Mechanics And Ethical Antirealism: A Counter-Analogy To Boyd,
2010
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Quantum Mechanics And Ethical Antirealism: A Counter-Analogy To Boyd, Justin Lawson
Philosophy
In his paper How to Be a Moral Realist Boyd attempts to show how cases of ethical indeterminacy can be accounted for from an ethical realist’s standpoint. Boyd describes cases of extensional vagueness in the life-sciences which arise from knowable and definite underlying structures and draws an analogy to ethics to argue his case. This paper argues that an equally compelling analogy can be drawn between another type of scientific indeterminacy – that in quantum mechanics – and the related ethical cases. Because quantum mechanical uncertainty (on the Copenhagen interpretation) is a real and not merely epistemic limitation on physical …
Late Pragmatism, Logical Positivism, And Their Aftermath,
2010
Loyola University Chicago
Late Pragmatism, Logical Positivism, And Their Aftermath, David Ingram
Philosophy: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Developments in Anglo-American philosophy during the first half of the 20th Century closely tracked developments that were occurring in continental philosophy during this period. This should not surprise us. Aside from the fertile communication between these ostensibly separate traditions, both were responding to problems associated with the rise of mass society. Rabid nationalism, corporate statism, and totalitarianism (Left and Right) posed a profound challenge to the idealistic rationalism of neo-Kantian and neo-Hegelian philosophies. The decline of the individual – classically conceived by the 18th-century Enlightenment as a self-determining agent – provoked strong reactions. While some philosophical tendencies sought to …
The Flow Of Nectar And Blood: Maya Philosophy And World Vision,
2010
University of Texas at El Paso
The Flow Of Nectar And Blood: Maya Philosophy And World Vision, Ferret
Departmental Papers (Philosophy)
No abstract provided.
Mechanisms, Causes, And The Layered Model Of The World,
2010
Butler University
Mechanisms, Causes, And The Layered Model Of The World, Stuart Glennan
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Most philosophical accounts of causation take causal relations to obtain between individuals and events in virtue of nomological relations between properties of these individuals and events. Such views fail to take into account the consequences of the fact that in general the properties of individuals and events will depend upon mechanisms that realize those properties. In this paper I attempt to rectify this failure, and in so doing to provide an account of the causal relevance of higher-level properties. I do this by critiquing one prominent model of higher-level properties – Kim’s functional model of reduction – and contrasting it …
Aristotle On Pure And Simple Stuff,
2010
Butler University
Aristotle On Pure And Simple Stuff, Tiberiu Popa
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
A view that has been entertained traditionally by Aristotelian scholars is that the four simple bodies in the sublunary world (earth, water, air, and fire) cannot exist independently; a consequence of this view is the general belief that all homoeomers or uniform bodies have to be compounds. i would like to suggest that, while Aristotle consistently maintains that the four basic opposites (hot, cold, moist, dry) cannot exist independently, this is not always the case with the four simple bodies. My central claim is that Meteorology IV – Aristotle’s ‘chemical treatise’ – provides evidence that, contrary to the traditional interpretation …
Darwinian Populations And Natural Selection,
2010
KU Leuven
Darwinian Populations And Natural Selection, Grant Ramsey, Hope Hollocher, Agustín Fuentes, Charles H. Pence, Edwin Siu
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Dispositions, Propensities And The Change Of Conditions,
2010
University of Texas at El Paso
Dispositions, Propensities And The Change Of Conditions, Alejandra Olivas-Davila
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
The purpose of this paper is to draw a clear line that allows us to thoroughly differentiate dispositions from propensities as well as the big problem that clouds both views. I will attempt to offer an account of the main issues that this properties face. I start by offering a general account of dispositions. In this account I offer a brief analysis of what it is to be a disposition. The distinction between categorical and dispositional property is explored. I move on to explain the evolution of the conditional analysis, as well as the problems it faces. The next point …
On Relational Quantum Mechanics,
2010
University of Texas at El Paso
On Relational Quantum Mechanics, Oscar Acosta
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
A problem facing quantum mechanics is that there are a number of views or interpretations available that purport to 'explain' quantum mechanics. In this paper I discuss and analyze the view of relational quantum mechanics by Carlo Rovelli in the context of theoretical underdetermination. I will show that even though Rovelli offers a view that consolidates some of the aspects of competing theories it still falls short of breaking out of the theoretical underdetermination. The criteria that I have used to consider a theory successful in this context is one that increases the predictive output of quantum theory. Lacking an …
