How should we reason in science? Jan Sprenger and Stephan Hartmann offer a refreshing
take on classical topics in philosophy of science, using a single key concept to explain and …

Why did Nietzsche claim to have" written in blood"? Why did Heidegger remain silent after
World War II about his participation in the Nazi Party? How did Hölderlin's voice and the …

Two recently popular metaphilosophical movements, formal philosophy and experimental
philosophy, promote what seem to be conflicting methodologies. Nonetheless, I argue that …

How can formal methods be applied to philosophical problems that involve informal
concepts of ordinary language? Carnap answered this question by describing a …

Paul Cobb is Professor in mathematics education in the Department of Teaching & Learning
at Vanderbilt University Peabody College. He is the author of several articles and books and …

Patients are interested in receiving accurate diagnostic and prognostic information. Models
and reasoning about diagnoses have been extensively investigated from a foundational …

Scientific concepts, laws, theories and models are representations but are uniquely different.
This book explores each within an original, philosophical framework rooted in the Kantian …

This text provides an extensive exploration of the relationship between the thought of Otto
Neurath and Rudolf Carnap, providing a new argument for the complementarity of their …

This paper contains a novel and coherent reading of Weberian ideal type construction,
based on recent philosophical approaches to conceptual engineering. This reading makes …

This special issue (short: SI) is dedicated to the study of philosophical methodology. Until
recently, the debate about philosophical methods in analytic philosophy primarily focused …