Modelling Scientific Communities by Cailin O'connor
This Element will overview research using models to understand scientific practice. Models are useful for reasoning about groups and processes that are complicated and distributed across time and space, i.e., those that are difficult to study using empirical methods alone. Science fits this picture. For this reason, it is no surprise that researchers have turned to models over the last few decades to study various features of science. The different sections of the element are mostly organized around different modeling approaches. The models described in this element sometimes yield take-aways that are straightforward, and at other times more nuanced. The Element ultimately argues that while these models are epistemically useful, the best way to employ most of them to understand and improve science is in combination with empirical methods and other sorts of theorizing.-
Science, Pseudoscience, and the Demarcation Problem
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Philosophy of Psychiatry
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Analogical Reasoning in Science
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Climate Science
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The Social Dimensions of Scientific Knowledge
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Objectivity in Science
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Logical Empiricism as Scientific Philosophy
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Unity of Science
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Science Denial
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Scientific Realism
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The Philosophy of Linguistics
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Underdetermination and Theoretical Virtues
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Scientific Representation
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Science and the Public
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Philosophy of Probability and Statistical Modelling
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Feminist Philosophy of Science
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Relativism in the Philosophy of Science
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Values in Science
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Abductive Reasoning in Science
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Scientific Models and Decision Making
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Duhem and Holism
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Scientific Knowledge and the Deep Past
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Scientific Progress
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Fundamentality and Grounding
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Bayesianism and Scientific Reasoning
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Big Data
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Natural Kinds
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Causation
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| ISBN 13 | 9781009454087 |
| ISBN 10 | 1009454080 |
| Title | Modelling Scientific Communities |
| Author | Cailin O'connor |
| Series | Elements In The Philosophy Of Science |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2023-12-21 |
| Number of pages | 94 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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