Cognitive Patterns in Science and Common Sense

Groningen studies in philosophy of science, logic, and epistemology
Erscheinungsjahr 1995
ISBN: 978-90-5183-888-6
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 45, 423 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm

Reihe: Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities

This collection of 17 articles offers an overview of the philosophical activities of a group of philosophers (who have been) working at the Groningen University. The meta-methodological assumption which unifies the research of this group, holds that there is a way to do philosophy which is a middle course between abstract normative philosophy of science and descriptive social studies of science. On the one hand it is argued with social studies of science that philosophy should take notice of what scientists actually do. On the other hand, however, it is claimed that philosophy can and should aim to reveal cognitive patterns in the processes and products of scientific and common sense knowledge. Since it is thought that those patterns can function as guidelines in new research and/or in research in other disciplines, philosophy can nevertheless hold on to the normative aim which is characteristic of 'classical' philosophy of science. Compared to this common assumption, there is a diversity of subjects. Some papers deal with general problems of science, knowledge, cognition and argumentation, others with topics relating to foundational problems of particular sciences. Therefore this volume is of interest to philosophers of science, to philosophers of knowledge and argumentation in general, to philosophers of mind, as well as for scientists working in the physical and applied sciences, biology, psychology and economy who are interested in the foundations of their disciplines.
After a foreword by Leszek Nowak and a general introduction by the editors, the book is divided into four parts, with special introductions. I: CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS IN SERVICE OF VARIOUS RESEARCH PROGRAMMES (Henk Zandvoort, Rein Vos, Rick Looijen, Gerben Stavenga, Renée Dalitz) II: THE LOGIC OF THE EVALUATION OF ARGUMENTS, HYPOTHESES, DEFAULT RULES, AND INTERESTING THEOREMS (Erik Krabbe, Theo Kuipers, Alfons Keupink, Maarten Janssen/Yao-Hua Tan, Bert Hamminga) III: THREE CHALLENGES TO THE TRUTH APPROXIMATION PROGRAMME (Sjoerd Zwart, Hinne Hettema/Theo Kuipers, Roberto Festa) IV: EXPLICATING PSYCHOLOGICAL INTUITIONS (Anne-Ruth Mackor, Jeanne Peijnenburg, Lex Guichard, Michel ter Hark).
The Groningen research group was recently qualified, by an official international assessment committee, as one of the best philosophy research groups in the Netherlands.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kuipers, Theo A.F.

Mackor, Anne Ruth

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Leszek NOWAK: Foreword. GENERAL INTRODUCTION. Theo A.F. KUIPERS and Anne Ruth MACKOR: Cognitive Studies of Science and Common Sense. APPLIED SCIENCES. Henk ZANDVOORT: Concepts of Interdisciplinarity and Environmental Science. Rein VOS: The Logic and Epistemology of the Concept of Drug and Disease Profile. NATURAL SCIENCES. Rick C. LOOIJEN: On the Distinction Between Habitat and Niche, and Some Implications for Species' Differentiation. Gerben J. STAVENGA: Cognition, Irreversibility and the Direction of Time. Hinne HETTEMA and Theo A.F. KUIPERS: Sommerfeld's Atombau: A Case Study in Potential Truth Approximation. PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND COMMON SENSE. Anne Ruth MACKOR: Intentional Psychology is a Biological Discipline. Jeanne PEIJNENBURG: Hempel's Rationality. On the Empty Nature of Being a Rational Agent. Lex GUICHARD: The Causal Efficacy of Propositional Attitudes. Michel ter HARK: Connectionism, Behaviourism and the Language of Thought. Alfons KEUPINK: Causal Modelling and Misspecification: Theory and Econometric Historical Practice. Maarten C.W. JANSSEN and Yao-Hua TAN: Default Reasoning and Some Applications in Economics. Bert HAMMINGA: Interesting Theorems in Economics. SCIENCE AND COMMON SENSE IN GENERAL. Renée DALITZ: Knowledge, Gender and Social Bias. Erik C.W. KRABBE: Can We Ever Pin One Down to a Formal Fallacy? Theo A.F. KUIPERS: Explicating the Falsificationist and Instrumentalist Methodology by Decomposing the Hypothetico-Deductive Method. Sjoerd D. ZWART: A Hidden Variable in the Discussion About 'Language Dependency' of Truthlikeness. Roberto FESTA: Verisimilitude, Disorder, and Optimum Prior Probabilities. About the Authors. Index of Names