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Modeling causal structures:Volterra's struggle and Darwin's success
Modeling Causal inference Volterra Predator-prey-model Darwin Coral atolls
2016/6/15
The Lotka-Volterra predator-prey-model is a widely known example of model-based science. Here we reexamine Vito Volterra's and Umberto D'Ancona's original publications on the model, and in particular ...
Criteria of Empirical Significance:A Success Story
empirical significance cognitive significance testability meaningfulness empirical content definition measurement falsifiability verifiability aboutness supervenience empirical equivalence realism structural realism antirealism
2016/6/14
The sheer multitude of criteria of empirical significance has been taken as evidence that the pre-analytic notion being explicated is too vague to be useful. I show instead that a significant number o...
Does Structural Realism Provide the Best Explanation of the Predictive Success of Science?
Structural Realism Phlogiston Chemistry Scientific realism
2016/5/30
I examine Carrier’s and Ladyman’s structural realist (‘SR’) explanation of the predictive success of phlogiston chemistry. On their account, it succeeds because phlogiston chemists grasped that there ...
Concerned that deflationary theories of truth threaten his scientific realism, Philip Kitcher has constructed an argument that scientific success establishes not only the truth of crucial scientific b...
The simple question "What is empirical success?" turns out to have a surprisingly intricate answer. The paper begins with the point that empirical success cannot be equated with goodness-of-fit withou...
The Privilege of Pedagogical Capital: A Framework for Understanding Scholastic Success in Mathematics
Mathematics The Privilege of Pedagogical Capital
2008/4/7
The theme that runs through this work is three-fold. First, there is a quality that some students possess that enables them to arrive at the academic table better positioned to take advantage of our ...
Empirical Success or Explanatory Success: What does Current Scientific Realism Need to Explain?
Anti-Realist Scientific Realism
2008/4/1
Against the well-known objection that in the history of science there are many theories that are successful but false, Psillos offers a three-pronged defense of scientific realism as the best explanat...
Empirical Success or Explanatory Success: What does Current Scientific Realism Need to Explain?
Anti-Realist Scientific Realism Philosophy of Science Philosophers of Science
2011/9/7
Against the well-known objection that in the history of science there are many theories that are successful but false, Psillos offers a three-pronged defense of scientific realism as the best explanat...