Advances of experimental philosophy of science
Advances of experimental philosophy of science
/ edited by Daniel A. Wilkenfeld and Richard Samuels
- Paperback edition
- 257 pages : illustrations
- Advances in experimental philosophy .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction Part one. Explanation and understanding 2. Scientific discovery and the human drive to explain 3. The challenges and benefits of mechanistic explanation in folk scientific understanding Part two. Theories and theory change 4. Information that boosts normative global warming acceptance without polarization : toward J. S. Mill's political ethology of national character 5. Doubly counterintuitive : cognitive obstacles to the discovery and the learning of scientific ideas and why they often differ 6. Intuitive epistemology : children's theory of evidence Part three. Special sciences 7. Applying experimental philosophy to investigate economic concepts : choice, preference, and nudge 8. Scientist' concepts of innateness : evolution or attraction? Part four. General considerations 9. Causal judgment : what can philosophy learn from experiment? What can it contribute to experiment?
9781350250062
Science--Philosophy
501
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction Part one. Explanation and understanding 2. Scientific discovery and the human drive to explain 3. The challenges and benefits of mechanistic explanation in folk scientific understanding Part two. Theories and theory change 4. Information that boosts normative global warming acceptance without polarization : toward J. S. Mill's political ethology of national character 5. Doubly counterintuitive : cognitive obstacles to the discovery and the learning of scientific ideas and why they often differ 6. Intuitive epistemology : children's theory of evidence Part three. Special sciences 7. Applying experimental philosophy to investigate economic concepts : choice, preference, and nudge 8. Scientist' concepts of innateness : evolution or attraction? Part four. General considerations 9. Causal judgment : what can philosophy learn from experiment? What can it contribute to experiment?
9781350250062
Science--Philosophy
501