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Current Trends in Philosophy of Science

A Prospective for the Near Future

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Editors:
  1. Wenceslao J. Gonzalez

    1. Center for Research in Philosophy of Science and Technology (CIFCYT) of the University of A Coruña, Faculty of Humanities and Information Science, Ferrol (A Coruña), Spain

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  • Deals with topics of great philosophical interest today, such as artificial intelligence, medicine, etc
  • Addresses topical themes from new perspectives to provide a fresh overview of contemporary philosophy
  • Includes contributions from prestigious philosophers of science, such as John Worrall and Philip Kitcher

Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 462)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. From the Current Trends in Philosophy of Science to the Prospects for the Near Future

    • Wenceslao J. Gonzalez
    Pages 1-12

  3. Philosophy of Medicine and Climate Change

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Philosophy of Science Meets Medicine (Again): A Clearer-Sighted View of the Virtues of Blinding and of Tests for Blinding in Clinical Trials

      • John Worrall
      Pages 15-43

    3. Environmental Decision-Making Under Uncertainty

      • Joe Roussos, Richard Bradley, Roman Frigg
      Pages 45-62

  5. New Analyses of Probability and the Use of Mathematics in Practice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145
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    2. From Logical to Probabilistic Empiricism: Arguments for Pluralism

      • Maria Carla Galavotti
      Pages 147-163

    3. Instrumental Realism – A New Start for the Philosophy of Mathematics and the Philosophy of Science

      • Ladislav Kvasz
      Pages 165-188

  6. Scientific Progress Revisited

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
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    2. Scientific Progress and the Search for Truth

      • Philip Kitcher
      Pages 191-206

    3. The Logic of Qualitative Progress in Nomic, Design, and Explicative Research

      • Theo A. F. Kuipers
      Pages 207-231

  7. Scientific Realism and the Instrumentalist Alternative

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-233
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    2. Explicating Inference to the Best Explanation

      • Ilkka Niiniluoto
      Pages 235-260

    3. Re-inflating the Realism-Instrumentalism Controversy

      • Stathis Psillos
      Pages 261-284

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 285-298
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About this book

This book seeks to provide new perspectives, to broaden the field of philosophy of science, or to renew themes that have had a great impact on the profession. Thus, after an initial chapter to situate the current trends in philosophy of science and the prospective of the near future, it offers contributions in five thematic blocks: I) Philosophy of Medicine and Climate Change; II) Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence and the Internet; III) New Analyses of Probability and the Use of Mathematics in Practice; IV) Scientific Progress Revisited; and V) Scientific Realism and the Instrumentalist Alternative.

Within this framework, the volume addresses such relevant issues as the methodological validity of medical evidence or decision making in situations of uncertainty; recent advances in Artificial Intelligence and the future of the Internet; current forms of empirically based methodological pluralism and new ways of understanding mathematics with scientific practice; and the revision of the approaches to scientific progress based on the experiences accumulated in recent decades.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for Research in Philosophy of Science and Technology (CIFCYT) of the University of A Coruña, Faculty of Humanities and Information Science, Ferrol (A Coruña), Spain

    Wenceslao J. Gonzalez

About the editor

Wenceslao J. Gonzalez is Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science (University of A Coruña). He is a Full Member of the Académie International de Philosophie des Sciences/International Academy for Philosophy of Sciences. He has been a Team Leader of the European Science Foundation program entitled “The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective” (2008-2013). He has been named a Distinguished Researcher by the Main National University of San Marcos in Lima (Peru). He has been a member of the National Committee for Evaluation of the Scientific Activity of Spain. Gonzalez has been a visiting researcher at the Universities of St. Andrews, Münster and London (LSE, CPNSS), as well as Visiting Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science and Visiting Scholar of the Department of Philosophy (U. Pittsburgh). He has given lectures at the Universities of Pittsburgh, Stanford, Quebec in Montreal, Helsinki and Nevadaat Reno. The conferences in which he has participated include those organized by the Universities of Uppsala, New South Wales, Bologna, Canterbury (NZ), Vienna, Beijing, Harvard and Boston. He received the Research Award in Humanities given in 1995 by the Autonomous Community of Galicia (Spain). He was President of the Committee of Doctoral Programs at the University of A Coruña (2002-2004). His publications include monographs such as Philosophico-Methodological Analysis of Prediction and its Role in Economics (Springer, 2015) and the edition of 41 volumes on philosophy of science, such as Bas van Fraassen’s Approach to Representation and Models in Science (2014).​

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Current Trends in Philosophy of Science

  • Book Subtitle: A Prospective for the Near Future

  • Editors: Wenceslao J. Gonzalez

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-01315-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-01314-0Published: 26 July 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-01317-1Published: 26 July 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-01315-7Published: 25 July 2022

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 298

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Pragmatism

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