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Motivationalism vs. interpretationalism about symmetries: some options overlooked in the debate about the relationship between symmetries and physical equivalence
European Journal for Philosophy of Science - Tập 13 - Trang 1-33 - 2023
In the recent philosophical debate about the relationship between symmetries and physical equivalence, two approaches have been distinguished: motivationalism and interpretationalism. In this paper, I point out that there are variants of interpretationalism that have not been taken into account by the proponents of motivationalism. I also argue that some of these overlooked variants of interpretat...... hiện toàn bộ
The future of philosophy of science: introduction
European Journal for Philosophy of Science - - 2012
Proper time and the clock hypothesis in the theory of relativity
European Journal for Philosophy of Science - - 2015
When addressing the notion of proper time in the theory of relativity, it is usually taken for granted that the time read by an accelerated clock is given by the Minkowski proper time. However, there are authors like Harvey Brown that consider necessary an extra assumption to arrive at this result, the so-called clock hypothesis. In opposition to Brown, Richard TW Arthur takes the clock hypothesis...... hiện toàn bộ
Abstraction in ecology: reductionism and holism as complementary heuristics
European Journal for Philosophy of Science - Tập 8 - Trang 395-416 - 2017
In addition to their core explanatory and predictive assumptions, scientific models include simplifying assumptions, which function as idealizations, approximations, and abstractions. There are methods to investigate whether simplifying assumptions bias the results of models, such as robustness analyses. However, the equally important issue – the focus of this paper – has received less attention, ...... hiện toàn bộ
Metaphors in arts and science
European Journal for Philosophy of Science - Tập 11 - Trang 1-24 - 2021
Metaphors abound in both the arts and in science. Due to the traditional division between these enterprises as one concerned with aesthetic values and the other with epistemic values there has unfortunately been very little work on the relation between metaphors in the arts and sciences. In this paper, we aim to remedy this omission by defending a continuity thesis regarding the function of metaph...... hiện toàn bộ
Relationalism about mechanics based on a minimalist ontology of matter
European Journal for Philosophy of Science - Tập 7 - Trang 299-318 - 2016
This paper elaborates on relationalism about space and time as motivated by a minimalist ontology of the physical world: there are only matter points that are individuated by the distance relations among them, with these relations changing. We assess two strategies to combine this ontology with physics, using classical mechanics as an example. The Humean strategy adopts the standard, non-relationa...... hiện toàn bộ
“It might be this, it should be that…” uncertainty and doubt in day-to-day research practice
European Journal for Philosophy of Science - Tập 9 - Trang 1-21 - 2019
This paper examines how scientists conceptualize their research methodologies. Do scientists raise concerns about vague criteria and genuine uncertainties in experimental practice? If so, what sorts of issues do they identify as problematic? Do scientists acknowledge the presence of value judgments in scientific research, and do they reflect on the relation between epistemic and non-epistemic crit...... hiện toàn bộ
How (not) to measure replication
European Journal for Philosophy of Science - Tập 11 - Trang 1-27 - 2021
The replicability crisis refers to the apparent failures to replicate both important and typical positive experimental claims in psychological science and biomedicine, failures which have gained increasing attention in the past decade. In order to provide evidence that there is a replicability crisis in the first place, scientists have developed various measures of replication that help quantify o...... hiện toàn bộ
The limits of Humeanism
European Journal for Philosophy of Science - Tập 8 - Trang 671-687 - 2018
Humeans take reality to be devoid of ‘necessary connections’: things just happen. Laws of nature are to be understood in terms of what ‘just happens’, not vice versa. Here the Humean needs some conception of what it is that ‘just happens’ – a conception of the Humean mosaic. Lewis’s Humeanism incorporates such a conception in the form of a Lewis-style metaphysics of objects, properties, and modali...... hiện toàn bộ
Potentiality realism: a realistic and indeterministic physics based on propensities
European Journal for Philosophy of Science - Tập 13 - Trang 1-16 - 2023
We propose an interpretation of physics named potentiality realism. This view, which can be applied to classical as well as to quantum physics, regards potentialities (i.e. intrinsic, objective propensities for individual events to obtain) as elements of reality, thereby complementing the actual properties taken by physical variables. This allows one to naturally reconcile realism and fundamental ...... hiện toàn bộ
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