In this paper we provide a compact presentation of the verisimilitudinarian approach to
scientific progress (VS, for short) and defend it against the sustained attack recently mounted …

Abstract In classical Social Network Analysis (SNA), what counted as a “social tie” was fixed
by available data collection methods. The emergence of large-scale unobtrusive data …

In this article, I will use the frame-model to analyze different kinds of concept change. Mainly,
I will use frames to distinguish between what I will call inter-conceptual change and intra …

The scientific realism debate in philosophy of science raises some intriguing methodological
issues. Scientific realism posits a link between a scientific theory's observational and …

In the philosophy of science, the frame model is used in order to represent and analyze
scientific concepts and conceptual change. However, the potential of the frame model is far …

This paper has two aims. The first is to show the usefulness and intuitiveness of frame theory
in reconstructing scientific classification systems. The second is to employ such …

According to a seminal paper by Barsalou (Frames, fields, and contrasts, 1992), frames are
attribute-value-matrices for representing exemplars or concepts. Frames have been used as …

The frame model was developed in cognitive psychology and imported into the philosophy
of science in order to provide representations of scientific concepts and conceptual …

In this essay I consider the historical challenges to scientific realist positions. A statement of
'Contemporary Selective Scientific Realism'(CSSR) is sketched, so as to narrow down the …

Perhaps the most influential realist view in recent years, structural realism's appeal can be
found in the ease with which it seems to explain away certain difficulties that afflict other …