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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451501303321

Titolo

Essays in debate with Theo Kuipers . Volume 2 Cognitive structures in scientific inquiry [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Roberto Festa, Atocha Aliseda and Jeanne Peijnenburg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; New York, NY, : Rodopi, 2005

ISBN

94-012-0133-1

1-4237-9099-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (521 p.)

Collana

Poznań studies in the philosophy of the sciences and the humanities, , 0303-8157 ; ; 84

Altri autori (Persone)

AlisedaAtocha

FestaRoberto

PeijnenburgAdriana Johanna Maria <1952->

Disciplina

370.15

Soggetti

Science - Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography of Theo A.F. Kuipers: p. [503]-511.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Roberto Festa , Atocha Aliseda and Jeanne Peijnenburg -- INTRODUCTION / Roberto Festa , Atocha Aliseda and Jeanne Peijnenburg -- STRUCTURES IN SCIENTIFIC COGNITION: A SYNOPSIS OF STRUCTURES IN SCIENCE. HEURISTIC PATTERNS BASED ON COGNITIVE STRUCTURES. AN ADVANCED TEXTBOOK IN NEO-CLASSICAL PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE (2001) / Theo A.F. Kuipers -- A NEW METAPHYSICS: FINDING A NICHE FOR STRING THEORY / David Atkinson -- PROBLEM REDUCTION: SOME THOUGHTS / Thomas Nickles -- DESIGN RESEARCH PROGRAMS / Maarten Franssen -- PROOFS AND ARGUMENTS: THE SPECIAL CASE OF MATHEMATICS / Jean Paul Van Bendegem -- MICRO-EXPLANATIONS OF LAWS / Erik Weber and Helena De Preester -- ON THE FORMALIZATION OF THE PERIODIC TABLE / Eric R. Scerri -- CLASSICAL, NONCLASSICAL AND NEOCLASSICAL INTENTIONS / Jeanne Peijnenburg -- ERKLÄREN, VERSTEHEN AND SIMULATION: RECONSIDERING THE ROLE OF EMPATHY IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES / Anne Ruth Mackor -- FUNCTIONAL EXPLANATION IN



BIOLOGY / Arno Wouters -- EXPLANATION AND THEORY EVALUATION / Adam Grobler and Andrzej Wiśniewski -- THE UBIQUITY OF BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE / Jaap Kamps -- STRUCTURES IN NEUROPHARMACOLOGY / Alexander P.M. van den Bosch -- WHY IS BEAUTY A ROAD TO THE TRUTH? / Paul Thagard -- DIRECT CONNECTIONISTIC METHODS FOR SCIENTIFIC THEORY FORMATION / Gerard A. W. Vreeswijk -- OVERDETERMINATION OF THEORIES BY EMPIRICAL MODELS: A REALIST INTERPRETATION OF EMPIRICAL CHOICES / Emma Ruttkamp -- WHAT IS STRUCTURE? / Robert L. Causey -- KNOWLEDGE, RISK, AND LIABILITY: ANALYSIS OF A DISCUSSION CONTINUING WITHIN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY / Henk Zandvoort -- BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THEO A.F. KUIPERS / Roberto Festa , Atocha Aliseda and Jeanne Peijnenburg -- INDEX OF NAMES / Roberto Festa , Atocha Aliseda and Jeanne Peijnenburg -- MONOGRAPHS-IN-DEBATE: CONTENTS OF BACK ISSUES / Roberto Festa , Atocha Aliseda and Jeanne Peijnenburg.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the second of two volumes devoted to the work of Theo Kuipers, a leading Dutch philosopher of science. Philosophers and scientists from all over the world, thirty seven in all, comment on Kuipers’ philosophy, and each of their commentaries is followed by a reply from Kuipers. The present volume is devoted to Kuipers’ neo-classical philosophy of science, as laid down in his Structures in Science (Kluwer, 2001). Kuipers defends a dialectical interaction between science and philosophy in that he views philosophy of science as a meta-science which formulates cognitive structures that provide heuristic patterns for actual scientific research, including design research. In addition, Kuipers pays considerable attention to the computational approaches to philosophy of science as well as to the ethics of doing research. Thomas Nickles, David Atkinson, Jean-Paul van Bendegem, Maarten Franssen, Anne Ruth Mackor, Arno Wouters, Erik Weber andamp; Helena de Preester, Eric Scerri, Adam Grobler andamp; Andrzej Wisniewski, Alexander van den Bosch, Gerard Vreeswijk, Jaap Kamps, Paul Thagard, Emma Ruttkamp, Robert Causey, Henk Zandvoort comment on these ideas of Kuipers, and many present their own account. The present book also contains a synopsis of Structures in Science . It can be read independently of the first volume of Essays in Debate with Theo Kuipers , which is devoted to Kuipers’ From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism (2000).