Baptiste Le Bihan
Baptiste Le Bihan
Penrose's conformal cyclic cosmology describes the cosmos as a collection of successive universes, the so-called aeons. The beginning and ending of our universe are directly connected to two other, anterior and posterior, universes. Penrose...
Cristian Mariani
Cristian Mariani
Spontaneous collapse models (SCM) employ an imaginary noise term in the modification of Schrödinger's equation in order to achieve a stochastic collapse process. Such noise term is typically assumed to be white, and therefore uncorrelated ...
Mariusz Maziarz
Mariusz Maziarz
The existing philosophical views on what is the meaning of causality adequate to medicine are vastly divided. We approach this question and offer two arguments in favor of pluralism regarding concepts of causality. First, we analyze the thr...
J Brian Pitts
J Brian Pitts
According to the Feigl-Reichenbach-Salmon-Schurz pragmatic justification of induction, no predictive method is guaranteed or even likely to work for predicting the future; but if anything will work, induction will work-at least when inducti...
Otto Neurath's Scientific Utopianism Revisited-A Refined Model for Utopias in Thought Experiments [0.03%]
重新审视奥托·纽拉特的科学乌托邦主义——思想实验中的乌托邦模型的新论述
Alexander Linsbichler,Ivan Ferreira da Cunha
Alexander Linsbichler
Otto Neurath's empiricist methodology of economics and his contributions to political economy have gained increasing attention in recent years. We connect this research with contemporary debates regarding the epistemological status of thoug...
David B Resnik,Kevin C Elliott
David B Resnik
In recent years, many philosophers of science have rejected the "value-free ideal" for science, arguing that non-epistemic values have a legitimate role to play in scientific inquiry. However, this philosophical position raises the question...
Robert Hudson
Robert Hudson
In "Should We Strive to Make Science Bias‑Free? A Philosophical Assessment of the Reproducibility Crisis", I argue that the problem of bias in science, a key factor in the current reproducibility crisis, is worsened if we follow Heather Do...
A Synthesis of the Formats for Correcting Erroneous and Fraudulent Academic Literature, and Associated Challenges [0.03%]
关于错误和欺诈性学术文献的校正格式之综合以及相关挑战
Jaime A Teixeira da Silva
Jaime A Teixeira da Silva
Academic publishing is undergoing a highly transformative process, and many established rules and value systems that are in place, such as traditional peer review (TPR) and preprints, are facing unprecedented challenges, including as a resu...
Revisiting the Basic/Applied Science Distinction: The Significance of Urgent Science for Science Funding Policy [0.03%]
重新审视基础科学与应用科学的区分：紧迫性科学对科技政策的意义
Jamie Shaw
Jamie Shaw
There has been a resurgence between two closely related discussions concerning modern science funding policy. The first revolves around the coherence and usefulness of the distinction between basic and applied science and the second concern...
Jon Williamson
Jon Williamson
Schurz (2019, ch. 4) argues that probabilistic accounts of induction fail. In particular, he criticises probabilistic accounts of induction that appeal to direct inference principles, including subjective Bayesian approaches (e.g., Howson 2...