DLMPST/IUHPST - Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology

Hannes Leitgeb, Ilkka Niiniluoto, Päivi Seppälä, Elliot Sober (eds.)
Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Congress.
College Publications, London 2017.

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Frontmatter & Backmatter

• Cover
• Table of Contents (pp. i–iii)
• Editors' Preface (p. iv)
• Preface of the Division of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science (DLMPS) (p. v–vi)
• Preface of the Local Organizing Committee (p. vii–viii)
• Frontmatter
• Index (pp. 436–445)

A Logic

• Johan van Benthem, Logic in play (pp. 3–39)
• Patricia Blanchette, Models in geometry and logic: 1870–1920 (pp. 41–61)
• Juliette Kennedy, Jouko Väänänen, Squeezing arguments and strong logics (pp. 63–83)
• Philip Welch, Global reflection principles (pp. 85–103)
• Edwin Mares, Logic revision (pp. 105–123)
• Gillian Russell, An introduction to logical nihilism (pp. 125–135)
• Paul Thom, Intensional logic before Leibniz (pp. 137–152)

B General Philosophy of Science

• Maria Carla Galavotti, On some French probabilists of the twentieth century (pp. 155–173)
• Anne Fagot-Largeault, Patrick Suppes: from logic to probabilistic metaphysics (pp. 175–188)
• William Demopoulos, Logical empiricist reconstructions of theoretical knowledge (pp. 189–205)
• Sven Ove Hansson, How values can influence science without threatening (pp. 207–221)

C Philosophical Issues of Particular Disciplines

• Hasok Chang, Prospects for an integrated history and philosophy of composition (pp. 225–241)
• Ana Barahona, A new look at the history of science. The transnational orientation of the Genetics and Radiobiology Program in Mexico in the 1960s (pp. 243–259)
• Arnaud Pocheville, Paul E. Griffiths, Karola Stotz, Comparing causes (pp. 261–288)
• Zoe Drayson, What is action-oriented perception (pp. 287–300)
• Mieke Boon, Philosophy of science in practice (pp. 301–322)
• Giovanni Boniolo, Patchwork narratives for tumour heterogeneity (pp. 323–346)

D CLMPS 2015 conference theme: Models and Modelling

• Eleonora Cresto, Models and modeling in formal epistemology (pp. 349–366)
• Harold Kincaid, Unrealistic models, mechanisms, and the social sciences (pp. 367–379)
• Uskali Mäki, Modelling failure (pp. 381–400)

E International Council for Science (ICSU) special session: Future Earth

• Gordon McBean, Heide Hackmann, Transformative research for a sustainable future Earth (pp. 403–419)
• Mark Colyvan, Biodiversity and triage (pp. 421–435)