Contemporary debates in philosophy of science

Introduction: What is the Philosophy of Science? -- Do Thought Experiments Transcend Empiricism? -- Why Thought Experiments Transcend Empiricism / James Robert Brown -- Why Thought Experiments do not Transcend Empiricism / John D. Norton -- Does Probability Capture the Logic of Scientific Confirmation or Justification? -- Probability Captures the Logic of Scientific Confirmation / Patrick Maher -- Why Probability does not Capture the Logic of Scientific Justification / Kevin T. Kelly, Clark Glymour -- Can a Theory's Predictive Success Warrant Belief in the Unobservable Entities it Postulates? -- A Theory's Predictive Success can Warrant Belief in the Unobservable Entities it Postulates / Jarrett Leplin -- A Theory's Predictive Success does not Warrant Belief in the Unobservable Entities in Postulates / Andre Kukla, Joel Walmsley -- Are There Laws in the Social Sciences? -- There are no Laws of the Social Sciences / John T. Roberts -- There are Laws in the Social Sciences / Harold Kincaid -- Are Causes Physically Connected to their Effects? -- Causes are Physically Connected to their Effects: Why Preventers and Omissions are not Causes / Phil Dowe -- Causes need not be Physically Connected to their Effects: The Case for Negative Causation / Jonathan Schaffer -- Is There a Puzzle About the Low-Entropy Past? -- On the Origins of the Arrow of Time: Why there is Still a Puzzle about the Low-Entropy Past / Huw Price -- There is no Puzzle about the Low-Entropy Past / Craig Callender -- Do Genes Encode Information about Phenotypic Traits? -- Genes Encode Information for Phenotypic Traits / Sahotra Sarkar -- Genes do not Encode Information for Phenotypic Traits / Peter Godfrey-Smith -- Is the Mind a System of Modules Shaped by Natural Selection? -- The Mind is a System of Modules Shaped by Natural Selection / Peter Carruthers -- The Mind is not (just) a System of Modules Shaped (just) by Natural Selection / James Woodward, Fiona Cowie

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