Titlebook: European Philosophy of Science - Philosophy of Science in Europe and the Viennese Heritage; Maria Carla Galavotti,Elisabeth Nemeth,Friedri

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On the Relationship between Neuroscience and Philosophy: the Case of Sleep and Dreaming,on sleep and dreaming during the last sixty years. In the nineteen fifties and sixties, neurophysiologists and psychophysiologists had great hopes regarding the contribution of sleep and dreaming studies to the understanding of consciousness mechanisms. These hopes were not entirely fulfilled. Progr

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(Anti-)Metaphysics in the Thirties And Why Should Anyone Care Now?, a metaphysical age among philosophers – even among those who shun horoscopes and are frankly embarrassed to fi nd Nostradamus so prominently displayed in the metaphysics section of their campus bookstore. Nowadays, distinguished philosophers in prestigious departments proudly call themselves metaph

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Probabilistic Epistemology: A European Tradition,y constituent of the scientific method. Developed in some detail by a number of authors including Patrick Suppes, Richard Jeffrey and Brian Skyrms, this view has been embraced by so many, as to gradually become predominant. While probabilistic epistemology has been growing, awareness of its origins

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,GÖdel and Carnap Platonism Versus Conventionalism?,two doctrines were formulated much too sketchily by their authors to al low final conclusions. By paying closer attention to the real natures of these doctrines, i.e. by offering more exact explications, they can adequately be compared, with the surprising result that they are compatible, and that t

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Infinite Idealizations,m is illustrated by thermodynamically reversible processes. They are approximations of processes requiring arbitrarily long, but finite times to complete, not processes requiring an actual infinity of time..2. The present debate over whether phase transitions comprise a failure of reduction is confo

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