Anatolii Kozlov
Anatolii Kozlov
Some experimental results in science are productively surprising or beautiful. Such results are disruptive in their epistemic nature: by violating epistemic expectations they mark the phenomenon at hand as worthy of further investigation. C...
Should physical symmetries guide metaphysics? Two reasons why they should maybe not [0.03%]
物理对称性应该指导形而上学吗？为什么它们可能不应该这么做的一些原因
Cristian López
Cristian López
Symmetry-based inferences have permeated many discussions in philosophy of physics and metaphysics of science. It is claimed that symmetries in our physical theories would allow us to draw metaphysical conclusions about the world, a view th...
What are side effects? [0.03%]
什么是副作用？
Austin Due
Austin Due
Side effects are ubiquitous in medicine and they often play a role in treatment decisions for patients and clinicians alike. Philosophers and health researchers often use side effects to illustrate issues with contemporary medical research ...
Overstating the effects of anthropogenic climate change? A critical assessment of attribution methods in climate science [0.03%]
人为气候变化的影响被夸大了？气候科学中归属方法的批判性评估
Laura García-Portela,Douglas Maraun
Laura García-Portela
Climate scientists have proposed two methods to link extreme weather events and anthropogenic climate forcing: the probabilistic and the storyline approach. Proponents of the first approach have raised the criticism that the storyline appro...
Contextualist model evaluation: models in financial economics and index funds [0.03%]
语境模型评估：金融经济学中的模型与指数基金
Melissa Vergara-Fernández,Conrad Heilmann,Marta Szymanowska
Melissa Vergara-Fernández
Philosophers of science typically focus on the epistemic performance of scientific models when evaluating them. Analysing the effects that models may have on the world has typically been the purview of sociologists of science. We argue that...
From naturalness to materiality: reimagining philosophy of scientific classification [0.03%]
从自然性到物质性：科学分类哲学的重构
David Ludwig
David Ludwig
The notion of natural kinds has been widely criticized in philosophy of science but also appears indispensable for philosophical engagement with classificatory practices. Rather than addressing this tension through a new definition of "natu...
Simon Allzén
Simon Allzén
The main purpose of this paper is to refute the 'methodological continuity' argument supporting epistemic realism in metaphysics. This argument aims to show that scientific realists have to accept that metaphysics is as rationally justified...
Harriet Fagerberg
Harriet Fagerberg
This paper asks when a natural disease kind is truly 'reactive' and when it is merely associated with a corresponding social kind. I begin with a permissive account of real kinds and their structure, distinguishing natural kinds, indifferen...
Progressive and degenerative journals: on the growth and appraisal of knowledge in scholarly publishing [0.03%]
进步与退步期刊：关于学术出版中知识的增长与评价
Daniel J Dunleavy
Daniel J Dunleavy
Despite continued attention, finding adequate criteria for distinguishing "good" from "bad" scholarly journals remains an elusive goal. In this essay, I propose a solution informed by the work of Imre Lakatos and his methodology of scientif...
Looking beyond values: The legitimacy of social perspectives, opinions and interests in science [0.03%]
超越价值观：科学中社会视角、观点和利益的正当性
Hannah Hilligardt
Hannah Hilligardt
This paper critically assesses the current debates in philosophy of science that focus on the concept of values. In these debates, it is often assumed that all relevant non-epistemic influences on scientific research can be described as val...