Romanian Studies in Philosophy of Science  [electronic resource] / 
edited by Ilie Pȃrvu, Gabriel Sandu, Iulian D. Toader. 
 - Cham :  Springer International Publishing,  2015. 
 - 1 online resource (VIII, 301 p. 17 illus.) 
 - Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science,  313  0068-0346 ; .
<br/><br/>PART A: SCIENTIFIC PRACTICES AND PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITIONS -- Chapter 1: The Tradition of Scientific Philosophy in Romania; Ilie Pârvu -- Chapter 2: What Ought to be Done and What is Forbidden: Rules of Scientific Research as Categorical or Hypothetical Imperatives; Mircea Flonta -- PART B: MIND, LANGUAGE, AND TECHNOLOGY -- Chapter 3: Memory as Window on the Mind; Radu Bogdan -- Chapter 4: A Momentous Triangle: Ontology, Methodology and Phenomenology in the Philosophy of Language; Manuela Ungureanu -- Chapter 5: On Rule Embedding Artifacts; Gheorghe Ştefanov -- Chapter 6: Issues in Modeling Open-Ended Evolution; Andreea Eșanu -- PART C: LOGIC, SEMANTICS, AND SOCIAL CHOICE -- Chapter 7: On a Combination of Truth and Probability: Probabilistic Independence-Friendly Logic; Gabriel Sandu -- Chapter 8: A Remark on a Relational Version of Robinson's Arithmetic Q; Mihai Ganea -- Chapter 9: The Simple Majority Rule in a Three-Valued Logic Framework; Adrian Miroiu -- Chapter 10: A Free Logic for Fictionalism; Mircea Dumitru -- PART D: QUANTUM PHENOMENA, SCIENTIFIC REALISM, AND EMERGENCE -- Chapter 11:Quantum Mechanics: Knocking at the Gates of Mathematical Foundations; Radu Ionicioiu -- Chapter 12: The Quantum Vacuum; Sorin Paraoanu -- Chapter 13: Structural Pluralism and S-dualities: A Project in String Realism; Ioan Muntean -- Chapter 14: The Prospects for Fusion Emergence; Alexandru Manafu -- PART E: EXPLANATION, MODELS, AND MECHANISMS -- Chapter 15: Scientific Progress, Understanding, and Unification; Sorin Bangu -- Chapter 16: When is a Mechanistic Explanation Satisfactory? Reductionism and Antireductionism in the Context of Mechanistic Explanations; Tudor Baetu -- Chapter 17: Causal and Mechanistic Explanations, and a Lesson from Ecology; Viorel Pâslaru -- Chapter 18: Against Harmony: Infinite Idealization and Causal Explanation; Iulian D. Toader. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783319166551 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Philosophy.<br/>Logic.<br/>Philosophy and science.<br/>Biology--Philosophy.