Models and theories are of central importance in science, and scientists spend substantial
amounts of time building, testing, comparing and revising models and theories. It is therefore …

Philosophers of science diverge on the question what drives the growth of scientific
knowledge. Most of the twentieth century was dominated by the notion that theories propel …

Recent years have seen enticing empirical approaches to solving the epistemological
problem of the theory-ladenness of observation. I group these approaches in two categories …

Perceptual systems that integrate different principles and/or a different architecture at large
may produce substantially varied outputs from the same scene. I call this thesis perceptual …

Recent years have seen enticing empirical approaches to solving the epistemological
problem of the theory-ladenness of observation. I group these approaches in two categories …

I declare that: this thesis presents work carried out by myself and does not incorporate
without acknowledgment any material previously submitted for a degree or diploma in any …

Książka Ontologie strukturalne czasoprzestrzeni stanowi pogłębione studium
metafizycznych (ontologicznych) interpretacji ogólnej teorii względności Einsteina (OTW) …

This special issue of Synthese is in honor of Gerhard Schurz, our good friend and colleague,
who contributed to philosophy in a multitude of novel and interesting ways. The idea to do …

Empiricism has a long and venerable history. Aristotle, the Epicureans, Sextus Empiricus,
Francis Bacon, Locke, Hume, Mill, Mach and the Logical Empiricists, among others …

evolution. It is interesting to note that to most of these topics that intersect with the
contributions of this issue, David Hume formulated skeptical concerns in a highly influential …