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I offer an account of how the quantum theory we have helps us explain the enormous variety of phenomena it is generally taken to explain. The account depends on what I have elsewhere called a pragmati...
What can cognitive science tell us about scientific revolutions?
Kuhn cognitive science incommensurability analogy naturalism ciencia cognitiva inconmensurabilidad analogía naturalismo
2016/5/27
Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions is notable for the readiness with which it drew on the results of cognitive psychology. These naturalistic elements were not well received and Kuhn did not s...
How do models give us knowledge? The case of Carnot’s ideal heat engine
models modelling representation epistemic artefacts
2009/11/20
Our concern is in explaining how and why models give us useful knowledge. We argue that if we are to understand how models function in the actual scientific practice the representational approach to m...
Methodism and Aggressive Christianity: The Detroit Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the US Occupation of the Philippines (1898-1903)
Philippines Methodist Episcopal Church
2009/7/9
A Republican Methodist President engaged in “regime change” and “nation building,” an American proclamation of the conflict’s end followed by continued resistance and increasing troop casualties, bar...
The Dark Side of the Force: When computer simulations lead us astray and ``model think'' narrows our imagination --- Pre conference draft for the Models and Simulation Conference, Paris, June 12-14 ---
computer simulations
2008/4/21
This paper is intended as a critical examination of the question of when the use of computer simulations is beneficial to scientific explanations. This objective is pursued in two steps: First, I try ...
Does special relativity theory tell us anything new about space and time?
special relativity space-time operationalism
2008/4/11
It will be shown that, in comparison with the pre-relativistic Galileo-invariant conceptions, special relativity tells us nothing new about the geometry of spacetime. It simply calls something else "s...
Does a Low-Entropy Constraint Prevent Us from Influencing the Past?
Causation Time Thermodynamics
2008/4/11
David Albert (2000) and Barry Loewer (2007) have argued that the temporal asymmetry of our concept of causal influence or control is grounded in the statistical mechanical assumption of a low-entropy ...
WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED SOCIAL JUSTICE AND WHAT DOES IT HAVE TO DO WITH US IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALISATION?
social justice globalistion
2008/4/7
This paper has dual aims. It proposes firstly to open the debate about the construction of social justice in mathematics education and secondly to use that construction to reflect on issues affecting ...
The Promise and Threat of Nanotechnology Can Environmental Ethics Guide US?
nanotechnology environmental ethics nature
2008/4/3
The growing presence of the products of nanotechnology in the public domain raises a number of ethical questions. This paper considers whether existing environmental ethics can provide some guidance o...