13 search results for “philosophy of science” in the Public website
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Raymond Corbey
Faculteit Archeologie
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Explanation and Teleology in Aristotle's Philosophy of Nature
This dissertation explores Aristotle’s use of teleology as a principle of explanation, especially as it is used in the natural treatises.
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Qinggang Hao
Faculty of Humanities
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Zhengshan Jiao
Faculty of Humanities
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James McAllister
Faculty of Humanities
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Philosophy of knowledge: The universal, the global and the local
In what way is constructivist logic able to account for both the role of the judging agent in inference and the universal claims of logical validity?
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Proclus on Nature. Philosophy of Nature and its Methods in Proclus' Commentary on Plato's Timaeus
This dissertation is a study of the view of the Neoplatonist Proclus (Athens, 411-485) on to what extent and how the changing and unreliable world of sense perception can itself be an object of scientific knowledge.
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Jaap Corthals
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Assessments of Past Science
Is it possible to formulate a new conceptual foundation for attributing an evaluative role to historiography of science, without relinquishing the historiographic sensitivity of recent work in the discipline?
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Yuye Que
Faculty of Humanities
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Victor Gijsbers
Faculty of Humanities
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Autonomy and Objectivity
The aim of this project is to foster a historiography that does justice both to the realization that scientific knowledge is constructed by local, contingent, and contextual processes, and the claims of science to objective validity.
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The Resistance of the World
This project will construct an inventory of possible conceptions of the resistance of the world to scientists’ claims and theories.