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Mechanistic Explanation:Its Scope and Limits
causation mechanism modularity explanation in biology
2016/6/15
This paper, part of an Aristotelian Society (2013) symposium with John Dupre, explores the question of whether all or most explanations in biology are, or ideally should be, ‘mechanistic’. I begin by ...
Abstraction and its Limits:Finding Space for Novel Explanation
Emergence Abstraction Idealization Explanation Statistical mechanics Thermodynamics Phase transitions
2016/5/30
Several modern accounts of explanation acknowledge the importance of abstraction and idealization for our explanatory practice. However, once we allow a role for abstraction, questions remain. I ask w...
Identity and the Limits of Possibility
essence haecceitism identity modality plenitude possible worlds
2014/11/10
Possibilities divide into two kinds. Non-qualitative possibilities are distinguished by their connection to specific individuals. For example, the possibility that Napoleon is a novelist is non-qualit...
Review of Timothy Williamson, Knowledge and Its Limits
Timothy Williamson，Knowledge，Limits
2010/10/11
Knowledge and Its Limits is a magnificent book that is certain to be influential for a very long time. It develops positions on an unusually broad range of topics (the nature of mental states, knowled...
Recent work by Robert Batterman and Alexander Rueger has brought attention to cases in physics in which governing laws at the base level “break down” and singular limit relations obtain between base- ...
Learning from a simulated universe: the limits of realistic modeling in astrophysics and cosmology.
Computers models and simulations Realism Cosmology
2008/4/22
As noticed recently by Winsberg (2003), how computer models and simulations get their epistemic credentials remains in need of epistemological scrutiny. My aim in this paper is to contribute to fill t...
The impact of science on metaphysics and its limits
presentism eternalism mental causation metaphysics
2008/4/21
The paper argues for three theses: (1) Metaphysics depends on science as a source of knowledge. Our current scientific theories commit us to certain metaphysical claims. (2) As far as science is conce...
The non-relativistic limits of the Maxwell and Dirac equations: the role of Galilean and gauge invariance
Non-relativistic limit Maxwell equations Dirac equations Pauli equation
2008/4/21
The aim of this paper is to illustrate four properties of the non-relativistic limits of relativistic theories: (a) that a massless relativistic field may have a meaningful non-relativistic limit, (b)...
Recent work on emergence in physics has focused on the presence of singular limit relations between basal and upper-level theories as a criterion for emergence. However, over-emphasis on the role of s...
On the Limits of Chemical Knowledge
chemical language structural formulas chemical synthesis
2008/4/3
Constraints on the representational capability of the language by which, in a simplistic yet truthful manner, chemists state knowledge of the spatial and electronic structure of molecules, are imposed...
CONTEMPORARY NATIVISM, SCIENTIFIC TEXTURE, AND THE MORAL LIMITS OF FREE INQUIRY
SCIENTIFIC TEXTURE CONTEMPORARY NATIVISM
2008/4/1
Some thinkers distrust Darwinist explorations of complex human behaviors, particularly investigations into possible differences in valued skills between genders, races or classes. Such projects, it is...
CONTEMPORARY NATIVISM, SCIENTIFIC TEXTURE, AND THE MORAL LIMITS OF FREE INQUIRY
CONTEMPORARY NATIVISM SCIENTIFIC TEXTURE AND THE MORAL LIMITS OF FREE INQUIRY
2011/9/8
Some thinkers distrust Darwinist explorations of complex human behaviors, particularly investigations into possible differences in valued skills between genders, races or classes. Such projects, it is...