图书简介

1. From the Current Trends in Philosophy of Science to the Prospects for the Near Future (Wenceslao J. Gonzalez).- Part I. Philosophy of Medicine and Climate Change. 2. Philosophy of science meets medicine (again): a clearer-sighted view of the virtues of blinding and of tests for blinding in clinical trials (John Worrall).- 3. Environmental decision-making under uncertainty (Joe Roussos, Richard Bradley, and Roman Frigg).- Part II. Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence and the Internet. 4. Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy of Science from the 1990s to the early 2020s (Donald Gillies and Marco Gillies).- 5. Whatever happened to the logic of discovery? From transparent logic to alien reasoning (Thomas Nickles).- 6. Scientific Side of the Future of the Internet as a Complex System. The Role of Prediction and Prescription of Applied Sciences (Wenceslao J. Gonzalez).- Part III. New Analyses of Probability and the Use of Mathematics in Practice. 7. From Logical to Probabilistic Empiricism: Arguments for Pluralism (Maria Carla Galavotti).- 8. Instrumental Realism -- A New Start for Mathematics and Scientific Practice (Ladislav Kvasz).- Part IV. Scientific Progress Revisited. 9. Scientific Progress and the Search for Truth (Philip Kitcher).- 10. The Logic of Qualitative Progress in Nomic, Design, and Explicative Research (Theo Kuipers).- Part V. Scientific Realism and the Instrumentalist Alternative. 11. Explicating Inference to the Best Explanation (Ilkka Niiniluoto).- 12. Re-inflating the Realism-Instrumentalism Controversy (Stathis Psillos).- Index.