IUHPS/DLMPS - Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science

Proceedings of 2007 Congress

Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science
Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Congress
Clark Glymour, Wang Wei and Dag Westerståhl Editors
College Publications, King's College London 2009
ISBN 978-1-904987-45-1

President's Address

• Welcome Greeting (pp. 3f)
• Adolf Grünbaum: Why is there a universe AT ALL, rather than just nothing? (pp. 5-17)
• Farewell closing remarks (p. 18)

A LOGIC

• Toshiyasu Arai: Iterating the recursively Mahlo operations (pp. 21-35)
• Rod Downey, Bakhadyr Khoussainov, Joseph S. Miller and Liang Yu: Degree spectra of unary relations on <ω,≤> (pp. 36-55)
• Eric Jaligot: Groups of finite dimension in model theory (pp. 56-73)
• Gerhard Jäger: Operations, sets and classes (pp. 74-96)
• Alexander S. Kechris: Set theory and dynamical systems (pp. 97-107)
• Itay Neeman: Monadic theories of wellorders (pp. 108-121)
• Mark van Atten: On the hypothetical judgement in the history of intuitionistic logic (pp. 122-136)
• Johan van Benthem: Logic, rational agency, and intelligent interaction (pp. 137-161)
• Giovanni Corsi: "Necessary for" (pp. 162-184)
• Jan Krajíček: A proof complexity generator (pp. 185-190)

B GENERAL PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

• Patrick Maher: Physical probability (pp. 193-210)
• Theo A. F. Kuipers: Comparative realism as the best response to antirealism (pp. 211-240)
• Gerhard Schurz: Meta-induction: A game-theoretical approach to the problem of induction (pp. 241-266)
• Oliver Schulte: How particle physics cut nature at its joints (pp. 267-286)
• Lawrence E. Blume, David Easley and Joseph Y. Halpern: Redoing the foundations of decision theory (pp. 287-305)
• Kevin B. Korb and Steven Mascaro: The philosophy of computer simulation (pp. 306-325)
• Thomas Mormann: Updating classical mereology (pp. 326-343)
• Soshichi Uchii: An informational interpretation of monadology (pp. 344-353)
• Henk J. M. Bos: Descartes' attempt, in the Regulae, to base the certainty of algebra on mental vision — A conjectural reconstruction (pp. 354-373)

C PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES OF PARTICULAR SCIENCES

• Mary Leng: Structuralism, fictionalism, and applied mathematics (pp. 377-389)
• Laura Ruetsche: What's it take to interpret a physical theory? (pp. 390-407)
• Tianjiao Chu: Causal models: A philosophical definition built on statistical concepts (pp. 408-426)
• Shushan Cai: Logics in a new frame of cognitive science (pp. 427-442)
• Christopher Cherniak: Minimal rationality vs Optimized brain-wiring (pp. 443-454)
• Michiel van Lambalgen: Logic in the study of autism: reasoning with rules and exceptions (pp. 455-480)
• Michael Eichler: Causal inference from time series: What can be learned from Granger causality? (pp. 481-496)
• Kevin D. Hoover: Probability and structure in econometric models (pp. 497-513)
• Peter Spirtes: Variable definition and causal inference (pp. 514-537)

D SCIENCE AND SOCIETY

• Kirsten B. Endres: National Ethics Committees: Diversity in judgements and the advice function (pp. 541-553)
• Norman Daniels: Global aging and intergenerational equity (pp. 554-570)
• Guoping Zeng and Honglin Li: Living science and public scientific literacy (pp. 571-581)

Special Symposium on COSMOLOGY

• Don N. Page: Obervational selection effects in quantum cosmology (pp. 585-596)

Special Symposium on FREUD AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

• Edward Erwin: Is Freud back? (pp. 599-612)

Special Symposium on CHINESE TRADITIONAL MEDICINE

• Zhai Xiaomei, Liu Junxiang and Qiu Renzong: The concept of disease in traditional Chinese medicine: In comparison with modern Western medicine (pp. 615-621)
• Hee-Jin Han: Western concept of pulse diagnosis: Théophile de Bordeu and Organicism (pp. 622-626)
• Ruipeng Lei: Is traditional Chinese medicine a pseudo-science? — Debates on TCM in China (pp. 627-638)
• Evelyne Micollier: Experimenting on innovative scientific versus traditional treatments: the case of AIDS medical research in China (pp. 639-644)
• Fabrice Gzil: A philosophical analysis of the place of acupuncture in the French health care system (pp. 645-649)
• Anne Fagot-Largeault: Scientific vs. traditional (empirical) medicine – a recurrent debate? (pp. 650-654)