Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation

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This volume, the second in the Springer series Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective, contains selected papers from the workshops organised by the ESF ...

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Shifting the (non-relativized) a priori: Hans Reichenbach on causality and probability (1915–1932).  (pages 2--465)Thomas A. Ryckman & D. Dieks
The alexandroff resent and Minkowski pacetime: Ps.  (pages 2--379)Mauro Dorato
The No Miracles Intuition and the No Miracles Argument.  (pages 11--21)John Worrall
The Scope and Limits of the No Miracles Argument1.  (pages 23--35)Stathis Psillos
An objective Bayesian account of confirmation.  (pages 53--81)Jon Williamson
An Explication of the Use of Inference to the Best Explanation.  (pages 83--91)Adam Grobler
A Formal Logic for the Abduction of Singular Hypotheses1.  (pages 93--108)Joke Meheus
Probabilities in branching structures.  (pages 109--121)Thomas Müller
Causality and Explanation: Issues from Epidemiology.  (pages 125--135)Raffaella Campaner
Invariance, Mechanisms and Epidemiology.  (pages 137--140)Samuel Schindler
What's Wrong with the Pragmatic-Ontic Account of Mechanistic Explanation?  (pages 141--152)Alexander Reutlinger
Causality and evidence discovery in epidemiology.  (pages 153--166)Michael Joffe
Inferences to Causal Relevance from Experiments.  (pages 167--182)Gerd Graßhoff
COMPARING PART-WHOLE REDUCTIVE EXPLANATIONS IN BIOLOGY AND PHYSICS.  (pages 183--202)Alan C. Love & Andreas Hüttemann
The Arrival of the Fittest.  (pages 203--222)Peter McLaughlin
Methodological Higher-Level Interdisciplinarity by Scheme-Interpretationism: Against Methodological Separatism of the Natural, Social, and Human Sciences.  (pages 253--267)Hans Lenk
Explanation and Interpretation in the Sciences of Man.  (pages 269--279)Jan Faye
Imagination and Explanation in History.  (pages 281--291)Peter Kemp
Historical narratives, evidence, and explanations.  (pages 293--303)Paolo Garbolino
Holistic Social Causation and Explanation.  (pages 305--318)Raimo Tuomela
Complexity in Economics and Prediction: The Role of Parsimonious Factors1.  (pages 319--330)Wenceslao J. Gonzalez
Prediction and Prescription in the Science of the Artificial: Information Science and Complexity1.  (pages 331--343)Maria G. Bonome
Against Pointillisme: a call to arms.  (pages 347--365)Jeremy Butterfield
The Gibbs paradox revisited.  (pages 367--377)Dennis Dieks
The Alexandroff Present and Minkowski Spacetime: Why it Cannot Do What it has Been Asked to Do1.  (pages 379--394)Mauro Dorato
A locus for “now”.  (pages 395--410)Tomasz Placek
Weyl's principle, cosmic time and quantum fundamentalism.  (pages 411--424)Svend E. Rugh & Henrik Zinkernagel
Not throwing out the baby with the bathwater: Bell's condition of local causality mathematically 'sharp and clean'.  (pages 425--450)Michiel P. Seevinck & Jos Uffink
Kant on Chance and Explanation.  (pages 453--463)Berna Kilinc
Shifting the (Non-Relativized) A Priori: Hans Reichenbach on Causality and Probability (1915–1932).  (pages 465--475)Michael Stöltzner
Carnap's Theories of Confirmation.  (pages 477--486)Pierre Wagner
The Rise and Fall of Falsificationism in the Light of Neurath's Criticism1.  (pages 487--498)Artur Koterski
Russell on Non-Demonstrative Inference.  (pages 511--520)Graham Stevens
Edgar Zilsel on Historical Laws.  (pages 521--532)Elisabeth Nemeth
“Every System of Scientific Theory Involves Philosophical Assumptions”(Talcott Parsons). The Surprising Weberian Roots to Milton Friedman's Methodology.  (pages 533--543)Eric Schliesser

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Marcel Weber
University of Geneva
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Utrecht University
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