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Calling for explanation: the case of the thermodynamic past state
European Journal for Philosophy of Science - Tập 10 Số 3 - 2020
Can discrete time make continuous space look discrete?
European Journal for Philosophy of Science - Tập 4 - Trang 19-30 - 2013
Van Bendegem has recently offered an argument to the effect that, if time is discrete, then there should exist a correspondence between the motions of massive bodies and a discrete geometry. On this basis, he concludes that, even if space is continuous, it should nonetheless appear discrete. This paper examines the two possible ways of making sense of that correspondence, and shows that in neither......
The modal status of the laws of nature. Tahko’s hybrid view and the kinematical/dynamical distinction
European Journal for Philosophy of Science - Tập 11 - Trang 1-15 - 2021
In a recent paper, Tuomas Tahko has argued for a hybrid view of the laws of nature, according to which some physical laws are metaphysically necessary, while others are metaphysically contingent. In this paper, we show that his criterion for distinguishing between these two kinds of laws — which crucially relies on the essences of natural kinds — is on its own unsatisfactory. We then propose an al......
Philosophy of interdisciplinarity. What? Why? How?
European Journal for Philosophy of Science - Tập 6 - Trang 327-342 - 2016
Compared to the massive literature from other disciplinary perspectives on interdisciplinarity (such as those from sociology, education, management, scientometrics), philosophy of science is only slowly beginning to pay systematic attention to this powerful trend in contemporary science. The paper provides some metaphilosophical reflections on the emerging “Philosophy of Interdisciplinarity” (PhID......
Fitness: static or dynamic?
European Journal for Philosophy of Science - Tập 11 - Trang 1-20 - 2021
The most consistent definition of fitness makes it a static property of organisms. However, this is not how fitness is used in many evolutionary models. In those models, fitness is permitted to vary with an organism’s circumstances. According to this second conception, fitness is dynamic. There is consequently tension between these two conceptions of fitness. One recently proposed solution suggest......
Adding causality to the information-theoretic perspective on individuality
European Journal for Philosophy of Science - Tập 14 - Trang 1-16 - 2024
I extend work from Krakauer et al. (2020), who propose a conception of individuality as the capacity to propagate information through time. From this conception, they develop information-theoretic measures. I identify several shortcomings with these measures—in particular, that they are associative rather than causal. I rectify this shortcoming by deriving a causal information-theoretic measure of......
The Big Data razor
European Journal for Philosophy of Science - Tập 10 - Trang 1-20 - 2020
Classic conceptions of model simplicity for machine learning are mainly based on the analysis of the structure of the model. Bayesian, Frequentist, information theoretic and expressive power concepts are the best known of them, which are reviewed in this work, along with their underlying assumptions and weaknesses. These approaches were developed before the advent of the Big Data deluge, which has......
Testability and viability: is inflationary cosmology “Scientific”?
European Journal for Philosophy of Science - Tập 13 - Trang 1-33 - 2023
We provide a philosophical reconstruction and analysis of the debate on the scientific status of cosmic inflation that has played out in recent years. In a series of critical papers, Ijjas, Steinhardt, and Loeb have questioned the scientificality of current views on cosmic inflation. Proponents of cosmic inflation, such as Guth and Linde, have in turn defended the scientific credentials of their a......
Understanding probability and irreversibility in the Mori-Zwanzig projection operator formalism
European Journal for Philosophy of Science - Tập 12 - Trang 1-36 - 2022
Explaining the emergence of stochastic irreversible macroscopic dynamics from time-reversible deterministic microscopic dynamics is one of the key problems in philosophy of physics. The Mori-Zwanzig (MZ) projection operator formalism, which is one of the most important methods of modern nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, allows for a systematic derivation of irreversible transport equations fro......
Synthetic biology and the search for alternative genetic systems: Taking how-possibly models seriously
European Journal for Philosophy of Science - Tập 7 - Trang 493-506 - 2017
Many scientific models in biology are how-possibly models. These models depict things as they could be, but do not necessarily capture actual states of affairs in the biological world. In contemporary philosophy of science, it is customary to treat how-possibly models as second-rate theoretical tools. Although possibly important in the early stages of theorizing, they do not constitute the main ai......
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