Synopsis
MARCEL WEBER, Preface.- Team A: Formal Methods
SEAMUS BRADLEY, Dutch Book Arguments and Imprecise Probabilities.-TIMOTHY CHILDERS, Objectifying Subjective Probabilities: Dutch Book Arguments for Principles of Direct Inference.- ILKKA NIINILUOTO, The Foundations of Statistics: Inference vs. Decision.- ROBERTO FESTA, On the Verisimilitude of Tendency Hypotheses.-GERHARD SCHURZ, Tweety, or Why Probabilism and even Bayesianism Need Objective and Evidential Probabilities.-DAVID ATKINSON AND JEANNE PEIJNENBURG, Pluralism in Probabilistic Justification.-
JAN-WILLEM ROMEIJN, RENS VAN DE SCHOOT, HERBERT HOIJTINK, One Size Does not Fit All: Proposal for a Prior-adapted BIC.-
Team B: Philosophy of the Natural and Life Sciences
Team D: Philosophy of the Physical Sciences.-MAURO DORATO, Mathematical Biology and the Existence of Biological Laws.-FEDERICA RUSSO, On Empirical Generalisations.-SEBASTIAN MATEIESCU, The Limits of Interventionism - Causality in the Social Sciences.-MICHAEL ESFELD, Causal Realism.-HOLGER LYRE, Structural Invariants, Structural Kinds, Structural Laws.-PAUL HOYNINGEN-HUENE, Santa's Gift of Structural Realism.-STEVEN FRENCH, The Resilience of Laws and the Ephemerality of Objects: Can a Form of Structuralism be Extended to Biology?.- MICHELA MASSIMI, Natural Kinds, Conceptual Change, and the Duck-bill Platypus: LaPorte on Incommensurability.-THOMAS A. C. REYDON, Essentialism about Kinds: An Undead Issue in the Philosophies of Physics and Biology?.-CHRISTIAN SACHSE, Biological Laws and Kinds within a Conservative Reductionist Framework.-ARIE I. KAISER, Why It Is Time to Move beyond Nagelian Reduction.-CHARLOTTE WERNDL, Probability, Indeterminism and Biological Processes.-BENGT AUTZEN, Bayesianism, Convergence and Molecular Phylogenetics.-
Team C: Philosophy of the Cultural and Social Sciences.-ILKKA NIINILUOTO, Quantities as Realistic Idealizations.-MARCEL BOUMANS, Mathematics as Quasi-matter to Build Models as Instruments.-DAVID F. HENDRY, Mathematical Models and Economic Forecasting: Some Uses and Mis-Uses of Mathematics in Economics.-JAVIER ECHEVERRIA, Technomathematical Models in the Social Sciences.-DONALD GILLIES, The Use of Mathematics in Physics and Economics: A Comparison.-DANIEL ANDLER, Mathematics in Cognitive Science.-LADISLAV KVASZ, What Can the Social Sciences Learn from the Process of Mathematization in the Natural Sciences.-MARIA CARLA GALAVOTTI, Probability, Statistics, and Law.-ADRIAN MIROIU, Experiments in Political Science: The Case of the Voting Rules.-
Team E: History of the Philosophy of Science
VOLKER PECKHAUS, The Beginning of Model Theory in the Algebra of Logic.-GRAHAM STEVENS, Incomplete Symbols and the Theory of Logical Types.-DONATA ROMIZI, Statistical Thinking between Natural and Social Sciences and the Issue of the Unity of Science: From Quetelet to the Vienna Circle.-ARTUR KOTERSKI, The Backbone of the Straw Man. Popper's Critique of the Vienna Circle's Inductivism.-THOMAS UEBEL, Carnap's Logic of Science and Personal Probability.-MICHAEL STÖLTZNER, Erwin Schrödinger, Vienna Indeterminist.-MIKLOS REDEI, Some Historical and Philosophical Aspects of Quantum Probability Theory and its Interpretation.-INDEX OF NAMES.
SEAMUS BRADLEY, Dutch Book Arguments and Imprecise Probabilities.-TIMOTHY CHILDERS, Objectifying Subjective Probabilities: Dutch Book Arguments for Principles of Direct Inference.- ILKKA NIINILUOTO, The Foundations of Statistics: Inference vs. Decision.- ROBERTO FESTA, On the Verisimilitude of Tendency Hypotheses.-GERHARD SCHURZ, Tweety, or Why Probabilism and even Bayesianism Need Objective and Evidential Probabilities.-DAVID ATKINSON AND JEANNE PEIJNENBURG, Pluralism in Probabilistic Justification.-
JAN-WILLEM ROMEIJN, RENS VAN DE SCHOOT, HERBERT HOIJT
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