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Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2011

Series: The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective

ISBN (Hardback): 9789400711792

Full citation:

Dennis Dieks, Stephan Hartmann, Thomas Uebel, Marcel Weber, Wenceslao J. Gonzalez (eds), Explanation, prediction, and confirmation, Berlin, Springer, 2011

Explanation, prediction, and confirmation

Contents

Causality and explanation

issues from epidemiology

Raffaella Campaner

125-135

Methodological higher-level interdisciplinarity by scheme-interpretationism

against methodological separatism of the natural, social, and human sciences

Hans Lenk

253-267

The Alexandroff present and Minkowski spacetime

why it cannot do what it has been asked to do

Mauro Dorato

379-394

Not throwing out the baby with the bathwater

Bell's condition of local causality mathematically "sharp and clean"

M. P. Seevinck, J. Uffink

425-450

Shifting the (non-relativized) a priori

Hans Reichenbach on causality and probability (1915–1932)

Michael Stöltzner

465-475

"Every system of scientific theory involves philosophical assumptions' (Talcott Parsons)

the surprising Weberian roots to Milton Friedman's methodology

Eric Schliesser

533-543