Special sciences

Known as: Special science

Special sciences are those sciences other than fundamental physics, that are presumed to be reducible to fundamental physics, at least in principle…

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2016

In a deterministically evolving world, the usefulness of nontrivial probabilities can seem mysterious. I use the ‘Mentaculus…

2015

The idea that there may be more than one correct logic has recently attracted considerable interest. This cannot be explained by…

2011

Consideration of contemporary practice suggests that scientists use a wide range of evidence in support of causal claims and…

2011

Contemporary philosophy of science has struggled considerably over an apparently simple question: how does one distinguish…

2009

Multiple Realizability (MR) must still be regarded as one of the principal arguments against type reductionist accounts of higher…

2007

We discuss Russell's 1913 essay arguing for the irrelevance of the idea of causation to science and its elimination from…

2006

Contemporary philosophical work on causation is a tangled mess of disparate aims, approaches, and accounts. Best to cut through…

2005

: In this essay I defend a theory of psychological explanation that is based on the joint commitment to direct reference and…

2004

1Introduction How doesmemory work? How doweunderstandlanguage, andproduce itsothat others canu nderstand?How dow eperceiveour…

1997

Soulevant la question de l'irreductibilite explicative de la notion de forme moleculaire, l'A. montre que les concepts…