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MCMP – Philosophy of Science, 86 episodes.

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Fifteen Dimensions of Evaluating Theories of Causation. A Case Study of the Structural Model and the Ranking Theoretic Approach to Causation

2

Context, Conversation, and Fragmentation

3

Navigating the Twilight of Uncertainty: Decisions from Experience

4

Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge. A Model of Knowledge Integration and its Limitations.

5

On the Role of the Light Postulate in Relativity

6

Explaining Macroscopic Systems from Microscopic Principles

7

The Causual Nature of Modeling in Data-Intensive Science

8

Convergence of Iterated Belief Updates

9

Against Grue Mysteries

10

On Einstein's Reality Criterion

11

Predicting Outcomes in Five Person Spatial Games: An Aspiration Model Approach

12

Modeling Cognitive Representations with Evolutionary Game Theory

13

Structures, Mechanisms and Dynamics in Theoretical Neuroscience

14

Philosophy of Statistical Mechanics from an Emergentist Viewpoint

15

The Mathematical Route to Causal Understanding

16

Occam's Razor in Algorithmic Information Theory

17

Vindicating Methodological Triangulation

18

Mathematical Explanations of Non-Mathematical Facts?

19

Science, Metaphysics, and Understanding

20

Use-novelty and double-counting: new insights from model selection theory

21

On de Finetti's Instrumentalist Philosophy of Probability

22

The Varieties of Explanations in the Higgs Sector

23

Propensities, Chance Distributions, and Experimental Statistics

24

The Completion of Logical Empiricism: Hempel's Pragmatic Turn

25

Unifying Causal and Non-Causal Knowledge

26

On the Distinction between Internal and External Symmetries

27

Rational Routines

28

Model Tuning and Predictivism

29

Agent-based simulations in empirical sociological research

30

Persistence of the lifeworld? On the relation of lifeworld and science

31

An Analogical Inductive Logic for Partially Exchangeable Families of Attributes

32

Computational Model as Generic Mechanisms

33

On the Justification of Deduction and Induction

34

On Bell's local causality in local classical and quantum theory

35

On Mathematical Explanation of Physical Facts

36

The epistemic division of labour revisited

37

Theory convergence in approaches to quantum gravity?

38

Reduction and Emergence in Physics

39

Chaos beyond the Butterfly Effect: The Poison Pill of Structural Model Error

40

String Theory and the Scientific Method

41

Inductive logic for rich languages

42

Reduction in Economics: Causality and Intentionality in the Microfoundations of Macroeconomics

43

Emergence and Explanation

44

Scarecrow’s Brain and Homunculi: Neurobiological Reductionism as Ensoulment-Objectification Process Seen Through Anthropological Lenses

45

Cross-Level Linkages in Neurobiology

46

Heterogeneity and Emergence in the Social Sciences

47

How Can One and the Same Thing be Subject to Different Theories? On the Proper Logic for Non-Reductive Monism

48

Technical Aspects of Reduction and Multiple Realizability

49

"Reversed Reduction" in Gibbsian Statistical Mechanics

50

Holography and the Emergence of Gravity

51

Novelty and autonomy as bases for, or alternatives to, a conception of emergence in physics

52

Theory Reduction in Physics: A Model-Based, Dynamical Systems Approach

53

The Topology of Intertheoretic Reduction

54

Inter-theoretic relations: The Brønsted Lowry theory of acids and microphysics

55

An Explication of Emergence

56

Agent-based models as mixed-level: lessons from E.coli

57

From Dressed Electrons to Quasiparticles: The Emergence of Emergent Entities in Quantum Field Theory

58

The Physics of Ontological Emergence

59

To map or not to map: or, how to represent auditory space

60

Reason-based rationalization

61

Completeness, Categoricity, and Dismissal

62

Evolving Perceptual Categories

63

A Model-Based Epistemology of Measurement

64

From Shannon's Axiomatic Approach to a New Sense of Biological Information

65

Separating Truth from Its Idealization

66

Idealization, Prediction, Difference-Making

67

Making sense of multiple climate models' projections

68

Rationality and the Bayesian Paradigm

69

Cooperation and (structural) Rationality

70

Evaluating Risky Prospects: The Distribution View

71

Theoretical Terms, Ramsey Sentences and Structural Realism

72

The Criteria for the Empirical Significance of Terms

73

Typicality in Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems Theory

74

Causal-descriptivism Revisited

75

Leibniz Equivalence

76

Theoretical Terms and Induction

77

The epsilon-reconstruction of theories and scientific structuralism

78

Definition, elimination and introduction of theoretical terms

79

Theoretical Terms, Ideal Objects and Zalta's Abstract Objects Theory

80

Avoiding Reification

81

Causality and Theoretical Terms in Physics

82

Implicitly defining mathematical terms

83

Descriptivism about Theoretical Concepts Implies Ramsification or (Poincarean) Conventionalism

84

How Almost Everything in Space-time Theory Is Illuminated by Simple Particle Physics: The Neglected Case of Massive Scalar Gravity

85

On the Conception of Fundamentality of Time-Asymmetries in Physics

86

Simplicity and Measurability in Science