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Autor:
de Regt, Henk
This volume explores how understanding relates to conscious experience. In doing so, it builds bridges between different philosophical disciplines and provides a metaphysically robust characterization of understanding, both in and beyond science. The
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https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/95817
Autor:
Povich, Mark
One central aim of science is to provide explanations of natural phenomena. What role(s) does mathematics play in achieving this aim? How does mathematics contribute to the explanatory power of science? Rules to Infinity defends the thesis, common th
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https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/94768
Autor:
Shea, Nicholas
Research on concepts has concentrated on the way people apply concepts online, when presented with a stimulus. Just as important, however, is the use of concepts offline, when planning what to do or thinking about what is the case. There is strong ev
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https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/93950
Autor:
Ambrosio, Chiara, Sánchez-Dorado, Julia
This volume explores the roles and uses of abstraction in scientific and artistic practice. Conceived as an interdisciplinary dialogue between experts across histories and philosophies of art and science, this collection of essays draws on the shared
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https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/93560
Autor:
Knuuttila, Tarja, Carrillo, Natalia, Koskinen, Rami
Models and modeling have played an increasingly important role in philosophy, going back to the nineteenth century. While philosophical interest in models has been remarkably lively over the last two decades, there are still many underexplored questi
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https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/93111
Autor:
Norton, John D.
The Large-Scale Structure of Inductive Inference investigates the relations of inductive support on the large scale, among the totality of facts comprising a science or science in general. These relations form a massively entangled, non-hierarchical
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https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92753
Autor:
Johansson, Lars-Göran, Banitz, Thomas, Grimm, Volker, Hertz, Tilman, Lindkvist, Emilie, Martínez Peña, Rodrigo, Radosavljevic, Sonja, Ylikoski, Petri, Schlüter, Maja
This open access book is about causal thinking and the use of causal language, with a focus on introducing philosophical ideas about causation to students and researchers of Social-Ecological Systems (SES). It takes a systematic approach to three cen
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https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92321
Autor:
Höhl, Anna Elisabeth
Understanding is an ability manifested by grasping relations of a phenomenon and articulating new explanations. Hence, scientific understanding is inextricably intertwined with and not possible without explanation, and understanding is not a type of
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https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/90717
Autor:
Schroeder, Doris, Chatfield, Kate, Chennells, Roger, Partington, Hazel, Kimani, Joshua, Thomson, Gillian, Odhiambo, Joyce Adhiambo, Snyders, Leana, Louw, Collin
Open access. This open-access book discusses vulnerability and the protection-inclusion dilemma of including those who suffer from serious poverty, severe stigma, and structural violence in research. Co-written with representatives from indigenous pe
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https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/90440
Autor:
Steinert, Steffen
What can we learn about the nature of technology by studying practices of maintenance and repair? This volume addresses this question by bringing together scholarship from philosophers of technology working at the forefront of this emerging and excit
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https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/88246