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    L'explication en tant que généralisation théorique (1992)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Dialectica 46 (1992), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1746-8361
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Philosophy
    Notes: Depuis l'ékpoque du Cercle de Vienne on consière l'explication en tant que tâche centrale de la philosophie analytique. Cependant il n'y a pas unanimité autour de la compréhension du concept d'explication. Dans cet article nous suggérons, tout en suivant Bachelard, de considérer une explication d'un concept en tant que sa généralisation propre dans le cadre d'une théorie explicative. Nous examinons notre approche en envisageant l'explication des concepts logiques («mplication»), mathématiques («ombre» et «ligne droite») et de la philosophie des sciences («réduction»).
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1746-8361.1992.tb00090.x
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    Structuralist reduction concepts as structure-preserving maps (1988)
    Springer
    Synthese 〈Dordrecht〉 77 (1988), S. 215-250 
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    ISSN: 1573-0964
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Natural Sciences in General , Philosophy
    Notes: Abstract The aim of this paper is to characterize the various structuralist reduction concepts as structure-preserving maps in a succinct and unifying way. To begin with, some important intuitive adequacy conditions are discussed that a good (structuralist) reduction concept should satisfy. Having reconstructed these intuitive conditions in the structuralist framework, it turns out that they divide into two mutually incompatible sets of requirements. Accordingly there exist (at least) two essentially different types of structuralist reduction concepts: the first type stresses the existence of a deductive or inferential link between the reducing and the reduced theory; the second type emphasizes the greater explanatory power the reducing theory should have in comparison with the reduced theory. The problem of the incompatibility of equally plausible reduction concepts is treated in the last section and a proposal is made for its solution consisting in the definition of a multiple synthetizing reduction relation.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00869435
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    Incompatible empirically equivalent theories: A structural explication (1995)
    Springer
    Synthese 〈Dordrecht〉 103 (1995), S. 203-249 
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    ISSN: 1573-0964
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Natural Sciences in General , Philosophy
    Notes: Abstract The thesis of the empirical underdetermination of theories (U-thesis) maintains that there are incompatible theories which are empirically equivalent. Whether this is an interesting thesis depends on how the term ‘incompatible’ is understood. In this paper a structural explication is proposed. More precisely, the U-thesis is studied in the framework of the ‘model theoretic’ or ‘emantic’ approach according to which theories are not to be taken as linguistic entities, but rather as families of mathematical structures. Theories of similarity structures are studied as a paradigmatic case. The structural approach further reveals that the U-thesis is related to problems of uniqueness in the representational theory of measurement, questions of geometric conventionalism, and problems of structural underdetermination in mathematics.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01090048
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    Structural accessibility and similarity of possible worlds (1992)
    Springer
    Journal of philosophical logic 21 (1992), S. 149-172 
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    ISSN: 1573-0433
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Philosophy
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00248636
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    Topologische aspekte strukturalistischer Rekonstruktionen (1985)
    Springer
    Erkenntnis 23 (1985), S. 319-359 
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    ISSN: 1572-8420
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Philosophy
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00168296
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    Review (1990)
    Springer
    Erkenntnis 33 (1990), S. 399-419 
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    ISSN: 1572-8420
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Philosophy
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00717595
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    Hans-Joachim Dahms, Positivismusstreit, Die Auseinandersetzung der Frankfurter Schule mit dem logischen Positivismus, dem amerikanischen Pragmatismus und dem kritischen Rationalismus (1997)
    Springer
    Erkenntnis 46 (1997), S. 393-396 
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    ISSN: 1572-8420
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Philosophy
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1005326527276
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    The Refined Qualitative Theory of Truth Approximation Does Not Deliver: Remark on Kuipers (1997)
    Springer
    Erkenntnis 47 (1997), S. 181-185 
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    ISSN: 1572-8420
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Philosophy
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1005310900785
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    Idealistische Häresien in der Wissenschaftsphilosophie: Cassirer, Carnap und Kuhn (1999)
    Springer
    Journal for general philosophy of science 30 (1999), S. 233-271 
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    ISSN: 1572-8587
    Keywords: Carnap ; Cassirer ; Kuhn ; idealism ; logical empiricism ; (post)positivist philosophy of science
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Philosophy , Nature of Science, Research, Systems of Higher Education, Museum Science
    Notes: Abstract Idealist Heresies in Philosophy of Science: Cassirer, Carnap, and Kuhn. As common wisdom has it, philosophy of science in the analytic tradition and idealist philosophy are incompatible. Usually, not much effort is spent for explaining what is to be understood by idealism. Rather, it is taken for granted that idealism is an obsolete and unscientific philosophical account. In this paper it is argued that this thesis needs some qualification. Taking Carnap and Kuhn as paradigmatic examples of positivist and postpositivist philosophies of science it is shown that these accounts share important features with Cassirer's idealist philosophy of science developed in the first half of this century. As it turns out, often Cassirer is more modern than those classical philosophers of (post)posivitist philosophy of science. For instance, Quine's criticism against Carnap's empiricist philosophy of science launched in Two Dogmas of Empiricism is anticipated by Cassirer for several decades.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1008306511856
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    Neuraths Enzyklopädismus: Entwurf Eines Radikalen Empirizismus (1991)
    Springer
    Journal for general philosophy of science 22 (1991), S. 73-100 
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    ISSN: 1572-8587
    Keywords: Encyclopedism ; logical empiricism ; Vienna Circle
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Philosophy , Nature of Science, Research, Systems of Higher Education, Museum Science
    Notes: Summary Otto Neurath was one of the most active and prominent members of the Vienna Circle. However, after the war his philosophical influence has been rather limited. In this paper I want to show that the main theme of Neurath's philosophical work has been the formulation of a radically empiricist theory of science. His approach —encyclopedism — can be characterised by the following five theses: scientific knowledge is (1) fallible, (2) pluralistic, (3) holistic, (4) it can be logically systematizedonly locally, and (5) it does not give us a (faithful) description of the real world. (4) is considered as the most original thesis of encyclopedism and is discussed in detail. Neurath never fully elaborated his approach. However, the central features of encyclopedism can be reconstructed from Neurath's penetrating criticisms of Popper's falsificationism and Carnap's semantics. In both cases, his approach is based on a transformed Kantian motive, namely to map out the legitime limits of empiricist reason.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01801250
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