Paul Humphreys

Philosophical Papers

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume contains fifteen papers by Paul Humphreys, who has made important contributions to the philosophy of computer simulations, emergence, the philosophy of probability, probabilistic causality, and scientific explanation. It includes detailed postscripts to each section and a philosophical introduction. One of the papers is previously unpublished.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 163mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780199334872
• ISBN-10: 0199334870
• Artikelnr.: 54797149

Autorenporträt

Paul Humphreys is Commonwealth Professor of Philosophy, and Co-Director of the Human and Machine Intelligence Group, at the University of Virginia. Author of over one hundred articles, he is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Science, and series editor of Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I - Computational Science
Chapter 1. Computer Simulation
Chapter 2. Computational Science and Its Effects
Chapter 3. The Philosophical Novelty of Computer Simulation Methods
Chapter 4. Numerical Experimentation
Templates, Opacity, and Simulations: Postscript to Part I
Part II - Emergence
Chapter 5. How Properties Emerge
Chapter 6. Emergence, Not Supervenience
Chapter 7. Synchronic and Diachronic Emergence
Chapter 8. Computational and Conceptual Emergence
Postscript to Part II
Part III - Probability
Chapter 9. Why Propensities Cannot Be Probabilities
Chapter 10. Some Considerations on Conditional
Chapter 11. Probability Theory and Its Models
Postscript to Part III
Part IV - General Philosophy of Science
Chapter 12. Aleatory Explanations
Chapter 13. Analytic and Synthetic Understanding
Chapter 14. Scientific Ontology and Speculative Ontology
Chapter 15. Endogenous Uncertainty and the Dynamics of Constraints
Postscript to Part IV
Index