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induction 22, 149 dogmatic response to the problem of 154–5 first problem of 150–1 Hume’s skeptical solution to the problem of 153–4 inductive justification of 151 pragmatic justification of 152 second problem of 155 syntactic analysis of 155 see also pessimistic meta-induction inductive-statistical (IS) model of explanation 37 see also explanation inference ampliative 149, 304 inductive 18, 22, 149–50 nonstatistical 307 see also induction inflation 193 information loss 189 see also black holes information theory 167, 260 informational account of assignation content 278 inheritance, epigenetic 261, 262–3 instrumentalism 31, 291, 293–4, 301 interacting field theories 221 interactor 241–2 internalist/externalist 11 interpretations of quantum mechanics 97–8, 200 Bohm’s theory 97–8, 211–13 Bohr and complementarity 97–8, 200 consistent (decoherent) histories 216–17 GRW model 210–11 many-minds 216 many-worlds 216 modal interpretations 98, 213–15 relative state formulations 215–17 see also quartet, tails, problem of interpretivism 291, 300 introns 253–4 inverse square law 37 isomorphism 88 isotropy 190 see also CMBR Index 339 Kant, Immanuel 18 Kauffman, Stuart 259 see also Bechtel, W., complexity Keller, Evelyn Fox 262, 317 Kemeny J. G. 83, 85, 162 Kepler’s law 37 Kim, Jaegwon 91, 93, 95–6 kinds, natual 253 see also race, species, taxonomy Kitcher, Philip 47–9, 233 Klein-Gordon field 218, 223(n.14) Kolomogorov’s axiomatization 158, 165–7 Kotarbinsky, Tadeusz 4 Kuhn, Thomas 7, 30, 32, 132 Labob, W. 142 Lakatos, Imre 8 Lamarkian evolution 244(n.2) Lamarkian use/disuse 228 Langacker, Ronald 285 language, observation 4, 6 Latour, Bruno 136 Laudan, Larry 8, 31 Lavoisier 133 laws 4, 38, 51–2, 56–7, 66, 72, 234, 257 and necessity 62 and universality 4 as general regularities 37 in the wild 63 of coexistence 66 of interaction 66 of succession 66 see also causal explanation, ceteris paribus, physical necessity Leibniz–Clarke correspondence 173 see also relationalism, substantivalism Lesnewski, Stanislau 4 Lewis, David 51, 83–4 Lewontin, R. C. 228, 255, 266 light-cone 190–3, 207 see also relativity linguistics 8, 274 cognitive 110 link, eigenvalue-eigenstate 208, 213 Linnaeus, Carolus 235 liquid drop model 115 Lloyd, Elizabeth A. 61, 141, 240, 242–3
locality 202–3 Jarrett 204 logical positivism 2, 5, 273, 313 and experimentation 131 see also Vienna Circle Longino, Helen E. 233, 320–2 Lorentz, H. A. 1, 13, 178 see also relativity Mach, Ernst 13, 176 see also relativity, relationalism Machamer, Peter 68, 72, 100, 122 macroevolution 244 see also evolution macrostate 120 Malament, David 182 Malisoff, William M. 5 manifold, four dimensional 141, 175 see also relativity many-body problem 94 many-minds 216 see also interpretations of quantum mechanics many-worlds 216 see also interpretations of quantum mechanics maps, cognitive 274 see also architecture, cognitive; cognition; cognitive science Markov consistency 214 Martin, J. 118 Marxism 293, 317–18, 320 materialism, eliminative 29 see also consciousness, emergence, physicalism, reductionism Mattingly, James 188 Maudlin, Tim 96—7, 172–4 Maxwell, Grover 1, 31, 101, 112 Maxwell’s equations 1, 32 McGinn, Colin 92 meaning acquisition of new 122 doxastic 298 intentional 298 linguistic 298 normative 298 shift 117 see also assignation, content Index 340 measurement(s) 202 collapse 209 non-ideal 214 problem 208–9 see also quantum mechanics mechanics, classical 1, 18 mechanisms 67–73 and explanation 71 constitutive 70–1 etiological 70–1 see also explanation Mellor, D. H. 161 Mendel’s law of segregation 39, 253 see also genetics Mendelian ratios 253 Mercury’s perihelion, problem of 26 mereology see holism, non-separability, ontological emergence, ontological reductionism Mermin, David 206 meta-ethics 11 meta-induction, pessimistic 28–35 metaphor 114–18 brains-as-computers 114–15, 275–6 dead 115 interaction view 116 literal vs. 121 meaning shift for 117 neural network 119 phylogenetic tree 115 scientific models as 114–19, 123 metaphorical terminology 123 metaphoricity, degrees of 115 methodology, scientific 184 metric 176 see also relativity Metzinger, Thomas 286 micro-economy 303 microcausality 205 microstate 120 Mill, John Stuart 26 Milliken’s oil drop experiment 14, 138– 40 Milne, P. 150 mixed state 96 see also pure state, quantum mechanics modal interpretations of quantum mechanics 98, 213–15
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Contents Notes on Contributors vii
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Chapter 2 Philosophy of Science: Cl
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John Worrall the view): the “revo
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John Worrall Confirmation - the att
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Jim Woodward account are complex, b
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Jim Woodward Hitchcock, C. (2001):
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Michael Silberstein The Varieties o
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statistical mechanics. As of yet, f
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Chapter 6 Models, Metaphors and Ana
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Daniela M. Bailer-Jones Bailer-Jone
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James Bogen Whewell (1991) and Duhe
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on the treatment of a low-level pro
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Alan Hájek and Ned Hall The streng
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