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CONCEPTUAL TOOLS FOR UNDERSTANDING NATURE

Proceedings of the Third International Symposium
    https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814529600Cited by:0 (Source: Crossref)
    Abstract:

    The Table of Contents for the full book PDF is as follows:

    • Foreword

    • Some Limits of Science and Scientists

    • Three Limits of Scientific Knowledge

    • On Features and Meaning of Scientific Knowledge

    • How Science Approaches the World: Risky Truths versus Misleading Certitudes

    • On Discovery and Justification

    • Thought Experiments: A Philosophical Analysis

    • Causality: Epistemological Questions and Cognitive Answers

    • Scientific Inquiry via Rational Hypothesis Revision

    • Probabilistic Epistemology

    • The Transferable Belief Model for Uncertainty Representation

    • Chemistry and Complexity

    • The Difficult Epistemology of Medicine

    • Epidemiology, Causality and Medical Anthropology

    • Conceptual Tools for Transdisciplinary Unified Theory

    • Evolution and Learning in Economic Organizations

    • The Possible Role of Symmetry in Physics and Cosmology

    • Observational Cosmology and/or other Imaginable Models of the Universe