I protest against the use of infinite magnitude as something completed, which in
mathematics is never permissible. Infinity is merely a façon de parler, the real meaning …

In the past thirty years, two fundamental issues have emerged in the philosophy of science.
One concerns the appropriate attitude we should take towards scientific theories--whether …

We outline Ladyman's' metaphysical'or'ontic'form of structuralrealism and defend it against
various objections. Cao, in particular, has questioned theview of ontology presupposed by …

I argue against theories that attempt to reduce scientific representation to similarity or
isomorphism. These reductive theories aim to radically naturalize the notion of …

Specifically, my theories of health and disease in Section 7.3, of etiology in Section 7.5, and
of diagnosis in Section 9.2 are based on my “Fundamentals of clinical methodology”, 1-4, in …

The semantic, or model‐theoretic, approach to theories has recently come under criticism on
two fronts:(i) it is claimed that it cannot account for the wide diversity of models employed in …

An introduction to the model-theoretic approach in the philosophy of science is given and it
is argued that this program is further enhanced by the introduction of partial structures. It is …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses paraconsistent logics (PL) and paraconsistency.
PL are the logics of inconsistent but nontrivial theories. A deductive theory is paraconsistent …

How is that when scientists need some piece of mathematics through which to frame their
theory, it is there to hand? What has been called'the unreasonable effectiveness of …

Based on da Costa's and French's notions of partial structures and pragmatic truth, this
paper examines two possible characterizations of the concept of empirical adequacy, one …