Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation
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 Research Networking Programme PSE (The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective) in 200
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Proceedings of the ESF Research Networking Programme
THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE IN A EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE Volume 2
Steering Committee Maria Carla Galavotti, University of Bologna, Italy (Chair) Diderik Batens, University of Ghent, Belgium Claude Debru, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France Javier Echeverria, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Spain Michael Esfeld, University of Lausanne, Switzerland Jan Faye, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Olav Gjelsvik, University of Oslo, Norway Theo Kuipers, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Ladislav Kvasz, Comenius University, Slovak Republic Adrian Miroiu, National School for Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania Ilkka Niiniluoto, University of Helsinki, Finland Tomasz Placek, Jagiellonian University, Poland Demetris Portides, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Wlodek Rabinowicz, Lund University, Sweden Miklós Rédei, London School of Economics, United Kingdom (Co- Chair) Friedrich Stadler, University of Vienna and Institut Wiener Kreis, Austria Gregory Wheeler, New University of Lisbon, FCT, Portugal Gereon Wolters, University of Konstanz, Germany (Co- Chair)
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Dennis Dieks · Wenceslao J. Gonzalez · Stephan Hartmann · Thomas Uebel · Marcel Weber Editors
Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation
Editors Dennis Dieks Utrecht University Inst. for History and Foundations of Science PO Box 80010 3508 TA Utrecht The Netherlands [email protected] Stephan Hartmann Tilburg University Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science 5000 LE Tilburg The Netherlands [email protected]
Wenceslao J. Gonzalez University of A Coru˜na Faculty of Humanities Dr. Vazquez Cabrera street, w/n 15.403 Ferrol Spain [email protected]
Thomas Uebel University of Manchester School of Social Science Oxford Road M13 9PL Manchester United Kingdom [email protected]
Marcel Weber Fachbereich Philosophie Universit¨at Konstanz 78457 Konstanz Germany [email protected]
ISBN 978-94-007-1179-2 e-ISBN 978-94-007-1180-8 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-1180-8 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011922745 c Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
TABLE OF CONTENTS DENNIS DIEKS, Preface: Explanation, Prediction, Confirmation ............................7 Team A: Formal Methods JOHN WORRALL, The No Miracles Intuition and the No Miracles Argument ....... 11 STATHIS PSILLOS, The Scope and Limits of the No Miracles Argument ...............23 GREGORY WHEELER AND RICHARD SCHEINES, Causation, Association and Confirma
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