Table Of ContentBoston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 313
Ilie Pârvu
Gabriel Sandu
Iulian D. Toader Editors
Romanian
Studies in
Philosophy of
Science
Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History
of Science
Volume 313
Editors
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Bucharest,Romania UniversityofHelsinki
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IulianD.Toader
DepartmentofTheoreticalPhilosophy
UniversityofBucharest
Bucharest,Romania
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Contents
PartI ScientificPracticesandPhilosophicalTraditions
1 TheTraditionofScientificPhilosophyinRomania..................... 3
IliePârvu
2 WhatOughttoBeDoneandWhatIsForbidden:Rules
ofScientificResearchasCategoricalorHypotheticalImperatives... 25
MirceaFlonta
PartII Mind,Language,andTechnology
3 MemoryasWindowontheMind......................................... 45
RaduJ.Bogdan
4 A Momentous Triangle: Ontology, Methodology
andPhenomenologyinthePhilosophyofLanguage.................... 55
ManuelaL.Ungureanu
5 OnRuleEmbeddingArtifacts ............................................ 71
GheorgheS¸tefanov
6 IssuesinModelingOpen-EndedEvolution.............................. 87
AndreeaEsanu
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PartIII Logic,Semantics,andSocialChoice
7 OnaCombinationofTruthandProbability:Probabilistic
Independence-FriendlyLogic............................................. 105
GabrielSandu
8 A Remark on a Relational Version
ofRobinson’sArithmeticQ ............................................... 125
MihaiGanea
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9 TheSimpleMajorityRuleinaThree-ValuedLogicFramework..... 131
AdrianMiroiu
10 AFreeLogicforFictionalism............................................. 149
MirceaDumitru
PartIV Quantum Phenomena, Scientific Realism, and
Emergence
11 Quantum Mechanics: Knocking at the Gates
ofMathematicalFoundations............................................. 167
RaduIonicioiu
12 TheQuantumVacuum..................................................... 181
GheorgheS.Paraoanu
13 StructuralPluralismandS-Dualities:AProjectinStringRealism .. 199
IoanMuntean
14 TheProspectsforFusionEmergence..................................... 221
AlexandruManafu
PartV Explanation,Models,andMechanisms
15 ScientificProgress,UnderstandingandUnification .................... 239
SorinBangu
16 When Is a Mechanistic Explanation Satisfactory?
Reductionism and Antireductionismin the Context
ofMechanisticExplanations .............................................. 255
TudorM.Ba˘etu
17 CausalandMechanisticExplanations,andaLessonfromEcology.. 269
ViorelPâslaru
18 AgainstHarmony:InfiniteIdealizationsandCausalExplanation.... 291
IulianD.Toader
Contributors
SorinBangu DepartmentofPhilosophy,UniversityofBergen,Bergen,Norway
Tudor M. Ba˘etu Programade Filosofia, Universidadedo Vale do Rio dosSinos,
SãoLeopoldo,Brazil
RaduJ.Bogdan DepartmentofPhilosophy,TulaneUniversity,NewOrleans,LA,
USA
MirceaDumitru DepartmentofTheoreticalPhilosophy,UniversityofBucharest,
Bucharest,Romania
Andreea Esanu Departmentof TheoreticalPhilosophy,University of Bucharest,
;
Bucharest,Romania
Mircea Flonta Department of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Bucharest,
Bucharest,Romania
MihaiGanea DepartmentofPhilosophy,UniversityofToronto,Toronto,Canada
Radu Ionicioiu Departmentof TheoreticalPhysics, National Institute of Physics
andNuclearEngineering,Bucharest-Ma˘gurele,Romania
Alexandru Manafu Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and
Technology,UniversityofParis-1Panthéon-Sorbonne,Paris,France
AdrianMiroiu NationalSchoolofPoliticalandAdministrativeStudies,SNSPA,
Bucharest,Romania
IoanMuntean TheReillyCenterforScience,Technology,andValues,University
ofNotre,Dame,IN,USA
Gheorghe S. Paraoanu Low Temperature Laboratory, Department of Applied
Physics,AaltoUniversity,Espoo,Finland
Ilie Pârvu Department of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Bucharest,
Bucharest,Romania
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Viorel Pâslaru Department of Philosophy, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH,
USA
Gabriel Sandu Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies,
UniversityofHelsinki,Helsinki,Finland
Gheorghe S¸tefanov Department of Theoretical Philosophy, University of
Bucharest,Bucharest,Romania
IulianD.Toader DepartmentofTheoreticalPhilosophy,UniversityofBucharest,
Bucharest,Romania
Manuela L. Ungureanu Department of Philosophy, University of British
Columbia,Okanagan,Kelowna,BC,Canada
Part I
Scientific Practices and Philosophical
Traditions
