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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.

Table of Contents:
1. From the Current Trends in Philosophy of Science to the Prospects for the Near FutureWenceslao J. Gonzalez Part I. Philosophy of Medicine and Climate Change2. Philosophy of science meets medicine (again): a clearer-sighted view of the virtues of blinding and of tests for blinding in clinical trialsJohn Worrall 3. Environmental decision-making under uncertaintyJoe Roussos, Richard Bradley, and Roman Frigg Part II. Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence and the Internet4. Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy of Science from the 1990s to the early 2020sDonald Gillies and Marco Gillies 5. Whatever happened to the logic of discovery? From transparent logic to alien reasoningThomas Nickles 6. Scientific Side of the Future of the Internet as a Complex System. The Role of Prediction and Prescription of Applied SciencesWenceslao J. Gonzalez Part III. New Analyses of Probability and the Use of Mathematics in Practice7. From Logical to Probabilistic Empiricism: Arguments for PluralismMaria Carla Galavotti 8. Instrumental Realism -- A New Start for Mathematics and Scientific PracticeLadislav Kvasz Part IV. Scientific Progress Revisited9. Scientific Progress and the Search for TruthPhilip Kitcher  10. The Logic of Qualitative Progress in Nomic, Design, and Explicative ResearchTheo Kuipers Part V. Scientific Realism and the Instrumentalist Alternative11. Explicating Inference to the Best ExplanationIlkka Niiniluoto 12. Re-inflating the Realism-Instrumentalism ControversyStathis Psillos  Index of NamesSubject Index

About the Author :
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 Nevada at 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).​


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  • ISBN-13: 9783031013164
  • Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
  • Height: 235 mm
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: A Prospective for the Near Future
  • ISBN-10: 3031013166
  • Publisher Date: 21 Jun 2022
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: 462 Synthese Library
  • Width: 155 mm


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