Recent Developments in the Philosophy of Science: EPSA13 Helsinki [electronic resource] / edited by Uskali Mäki, Ioannis Votsis, Stéphanie Ruphy, Gerhard Schurz.

Preface -- Part I. Truth and Semantics -- Chapter 1. Coherence and (Likeness to) Truth; Michael Schippers -- Chapter 2.    A Verisimilitudinarian Rebuttal of a Recent Attack Against Realism; Luca Tambolo -- Chapter 3. Realistic Claims in Logical Empiricism; Matthias Neuber -- Chapter 4. Patchworks of Laws and Partial Structures; Holger Andreas -- Part II.  Social Epistemology, Rational Choice Theory and Public Policy -- Chapter 5. Social Epistemology, Debate Dynamics, and Truth Approximation; Gustavo Cevolani -- Chapter 6. Wise Crowds, Clever Meta-Inductivists; Paul Thorn -- Chapter 7. Is the Equal-Weight View Really Supported by Positive Crowd Effects?; Christian Feldbacher -- Chapter 8. Why the Realist-Instrumentalist Debate About Rational Choice Rests On A Mistake; Christine Tiefensee -- Chapter 9. Funding Science By Lottery; Shahar Avin -- Part III. Values in Science -- Chapter 10.  Researchers Building Nations: Under What Conditions Can Overtly Political Research Be & Objective?; Inkeri Koskinen -- Chapter 11.  Against the Agnosticism-Argument for Value-Freedom; Anke Bueter -- Part IV. Causality -- Chapter 12. Learning About Constitutive Relations; Lena Kaestner -- Chapter 13. Reconstituting Phenomena; Maria Kronfelder -- Chapter 14. Manipulating Spins: Causality and Decoherence; Fernanda Samaniego -- Part V. Philosophy of Physics and Chemistry -- Chapter 15. How Fundamental Physics Represents Causality; Andreas Bartels and Daniel Wohlfarth -- Chapter 16. Local Causality and Complete Specification: A Reply to Seevinck and Uffink; Gábor Hofer-Szabó -- Chapter 17. Pragmatists and Purists on CPT Invariance in Relativistic Quantum Field Theories; Jonathan Bain -- Chapter 18. Explanation in Quantum Chemistry; Carsten Seck -- Chapter 19. Are Chemical Kinds Natural Kinds?; Robin Hendry.- Part VI. Induction, Probability and Chaos -- Chapter 20. Why Bertrand's Paradox Is Not Paradoxical But Is Felt So; Zalan Gyenis and Miklos  Redei -- Chapter 21.  Revisiting Smale's Fourteenth Problem to Discover Two Definitions of Chaos; Lena Zuchowski -- Chapter 22.  Rudolf Carnap: Philosophy of Science as Engineering Explications; Christopher French -- Chapter 23. Robustness, Diversity of Evidence, and Probabilistic Independence; Jonah Schupbach.-Part VII. Fiction, Representation and Explanation -- Chapter 24. Why does Water Boil? Fictions in Scientific Explanation; Sorin Bangu -- Chapter 25. Scientific Representation, Denotation, and Fictional Entities; Mauricio Suárez -- Part VIII. Philosophy of the Life Sciences and of Psychology -- Chapter 26. Non Inferiority Drug Trials and the Trade-Offs in RCTs; Cecilia Nardini -- Chapter 27. Against Sex and Gender Dualism in Gender-Specific Medicine; Maria Christina Amoretti and Nicla Vassalo -- Chapter 28. Biological Essentialism Concerning the Species Category; Edit Talpsepp -- Chapter 29. Two Concepts of Emotional Expression; Trip Glazer.