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Is there any online resources on Williard O. Quine correspondence?

Does anyone know if there is online resources on Williard O. Quine correspondence with other philosophers and scientists?

11 November 2015 5,424 2 View

Is there anyone other than Thagard, who claims we should focus pseudoscientist rather than pseudoscience itself (in demarcation problem)?

According to Thagard, difficulty of demarcation problem can be pass over by focusing pseudiscientist. He proposes: A theory or discipline which purports to be scientific is pseudoscientific if...

11 November 2015 4,567 1 View

How often the old people ask the young people to do what the old people were not able to do when they were young?

It's all in the question. Any examples? What is your opinion? Thanks!

11 November 2015 1,073 21 View

In the presence of growing scientific knowledge, what is the meaning of the semantic components of the idea of progress?

In defining the path of scientific progress there might be a problem of demarcation, a concept proper to philosophy of science, as well as a cardinal principle of epistemology, which aims to...

11 November 2015 4,920 0 View

Can the system of relations between science and ethics spontaneously learn to anticipate foreseeable events according to the concept of 'habituation'?

So far we have analyzed multiple opinions on science and ethics expressed by operators of scientific research and culture. The great variety of positions seems to be due, in general, to two great...

11 November 2015 4,277 0 View

The negativity of insufficient uniformity of scientific discourse hinders even a deepening of ethics?

I believe that it should be carried out periodically a kind of 'state of the art' of the interactions between science, lifestyles, ways of thinking and socio-cultural values. It seems to me to...

10 October 2015 1,675 0 View

Nature is really subject to laws, or are we to think so? How is it possible for man to know them?

We are aware that the logical positivism, neo-empiricism or logical empiricism, is a philosophical current that came about in the first half of the twentieth century with the Vienna Circle, based...

10 October 2015 5,873 6 View

Why are economists still deeply influenced by the methodology of Milton Friedman?

Through many discussions in RearchGate, I came to recognize that majority of economists are still deeply influenced by the Friedmanian methodology. An evidence is the fact that they take little...

10 October 2015 3,820 73 View

Should hypotheses always be based on a theory? Can someone refer me to a research paper that emphasizes the need for theory driven hypotheses?

Should hypotheses always be based on a theory? I will provide an example here without variable names. I am reading a paper where the authors argue that X (an action) should be related to Y (an...

09 September 2015 1,178 64 View

Should philosophy be divided into theoretical philosophy and applied philosophy?

1, There are many knowers in this world (such as human, monkey, fishes, bees,…), each knower has their own general cognizing ways decided by the species’ biological structure. We call these...

09 September 2015 4,208 44 View

How do archaeologists justify the adequacy of their proxies?

Archaeologists make propositions about properties of social systems of the past, because the past is in itself unobservable we have to use indicators that postulate a causal relation between the...

09 September 2015 6,407 22 View

Objectivity is not outside and independent of the subject. Is it that given by the mental aim toward which every intentional act of thought is headed?

In constructivism the subject, driven by his own interests, builds actively his own concept of reality through a process of integration of multiple perspectives offered. Constructivism regains...

09 September 2015 5,265 16 View

Objectivity is not outside and independent of the subject. Is it that given by the mental aim toward which every intentional act of thought is headed?

In constructivism the subject, driven by his own interests, builds actively his own concept of reality through a process of integration of multiple perspectives offered. Constructivism regains...

04 September 2015 5,695 15 View

Can the scientistic ideology, that claims to know 'a priori', achieve the same results of science?

Scientism is, first of all, an ideology, in the sense that claim, ‘a priori’, to be able to understand all of reality. The accusation is authoritative because it comes from the words of Mauro...

27 August 2015 928 13 View

Can the scientistic ideology, that claims to know 'a priori', achieve the same results of science?

Scientism is, first of all, an ideology, in the sense that claim, ‘a priori’, to be able to understand all of reality. The accusation is authoritative because it comes from the words of Mauro...

08 August 2015 5,627 14 View

Are horizontal transfer and hybridization so prevalent in the diversity of life that the conception of a "tree" should be abandoned?

Velasco (2014, Philosophy of Science) and others have suggested recently that the "tree of life" is not really a tree, and therefore the idea is at best, a "model." At the roots, among bacteria,...

08 August 2015 8,390 1 View

Is Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Time prepared for resurection of absolute simultaneity?

It is not a rhetorical question. Many years of debates led by Hans Reichenbach and Adolf Grunbaum and their followers ended up in resignation by accepting the conventionality thesis. Early...

08 August 2015 9,360 23 View

What are the most significant scientific contributions of conventionalism?

Conventionalism is a philosophical concept whereby some principles or propositions, both cognitive and ethical-political are based on conventions , agreements or choice (even implicitly) that can...

29 July 2015 9,478 5 View

Is there room for religious thoughts in a scientific mind?

Two of my previous questions were on the influence of emotions and/or of superstition, on a scientific mind. Many of the answers we got were absolutely surprisingly unique and brilliant. I...

07 July 2015 9,961 89 View

What are the most significant scientific contributions of conventionalism?

Conventionalism is a philosophical concept whereby some principles or propositions, both cognitive and ethical-political are based on conventions , agreements or choice (even implicitly) that can...

07 July 2015 10,121 6 View

Is induction of any help in choosing among theories empirically equivalent?

Let us have the following: (P1)For each theory H, there is always another theory G such that G and H are empirically equivalent in the ‘weak sense’, (they are empirically equivalent in...

07 July 2015 8,239 41 View

What is the relationship between philosophy and science?

Philosophy is arm chair thinking. When we introduce mathematics into it to quantify our ideas for further investigation it becomes science. So philosophy should be regarded as the 'Father of...

07 July 2015 5,914 4 View

On the prospects of gaining an RG-Nemesis?

With scientific debates, many often avoid controversy or any degree of 'heated' discussion; yet, in the spirit of debating, isn't this exactly what one wants? I would argue that one most certainly...

07 July 2015 8,490 1 View

Have the Einstein field equations changed their meaning?

In his short essay, “How Great Equations Survive,” Nobel laureate physicist Steven Weinberg argues that though equations survive through scientific change, they are reinterpreted in light of the...

17 June 2015 1,921 49 View

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