Titlebook: Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation; Dennis Dieks,Wenceslao J. Gonzalez,Marcel Weber Conference proceedings 2011 Springer Netherland

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Inferences to Causal Relevance from Experimentsor the following arguments the only relevant aspect is that theories imply propositions that can be compared with empirical data. Here the implication is meant strictly in the sense of a deduction. The HD-model has at first sight attractive advantages.

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The Arrival of the Fittest ,s while others do not. In the present paper, I shall raise two worries with respect to this analogy and attempt to show that using the analogy does more harm than good when one wants to know what reference to natural selection can explain.

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Conference proceedings 2011by the ESF Research Networking Programme PSE (The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective) in 2009. Five general topics are addressed: 1. Formal Methods in the Philosophy of Science; 2. Philosophy of the Natural and Life Sciences; 3. Philosophy of the Cultural and Social Sciences; 4. Philoso

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esThis volume, the second in the Springer series Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective, contains selected papers from the workshops organised by the ESF Research Networking Programme PSE (The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective) in 2009. Five general topics are addressed: 1. Fo

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Handbuch der Presshefenfabrikationrnatives. One criterion is designed to compare rival hypotheses put forward in the framework of a fixed background knowledge, the other is designed to compare an original background knowledge with its attempted revision. The proposal will be claimed to resolve the problems of Duhemian variety as well as the incommensurability problem.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-92413-2ation, which is the ratio of the coherence of evidence and the coherence of the evidence conditional on a hypothesis, tracks confirmation. We then show that the causal structure of the evidence and hypothesis can put strong constraints on how coherence in the evidence does or does not translate into confirmation of the hypothesis.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-52750-0 notorious counterexamples to many other theories of explanation (e.g., various scenarios of preemption, counting out irrelevant factors etc.). In this contribution, I would like to critically examine a specific account of mechanistic explanation, namely the account of Daniel Sirtes.

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