European Journal for Philosophy of Science最新文献

{"title":"The non-specificity of placebo effects","authors":"Thomas Blanchard","doi":"10.1007/s13194-026-00756-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-026-00756-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48832,"journal":{"name":"European Journal for Philosophy of Science","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148499203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Trouble with Hubble? A brief philosophical assessment of the documentclass[12pt]{minimal} usepackage{amsmath} usepackage{wasysym} usepackage{amsfonts} usepackage{amssymb} usepackage{amsbsy} usepackage{mathrsfs} usepackage{upgreek} setlength{oddsidemargin}{-69pt} begin{document}$$H_0$$end{document} tension","authors":"William J. Wolf","doi":"10.1007/s13194-026-00761-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-026-00761-w","url":null,"abstract":"Despite some labeling the Hubble tension as a ‘crisis’, I argue that this tension does not endanger <inline-formula><tex-math>documentclass[12pt]{minimal} usepackage{amsmath} usepackage{wasysym} usepackage{amsfonts} usepackage{amssymb} usepackage{amsbsy} usepackage{mathrsfs} usepackage{upgreek} setlength{oddsidemargin}{-69pt} begin{document}$$Lambda$$end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula>CDM as a permanent contribution to scientific knowledge. Utilizing a Lakatosian framework, I argue that the <inline-formula><tex-math>documentclass[12pt]{minimal} usepackage{amsmath} usepackage{wasysym} usepackage{amsfonts} usepackage{amssymb} usepackage{amsbsy} usepackage{mathrsfs} usepackage{upgreek} setlength{oddsidemargin}{-69pt} begin{document}$$Lambda$$end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula>CDM model represents the latest stage in an evolving research programme characterized by empirical and theoretical progress. I further contend that plausible resolutions to the Hubble tension align with established strategies within this research programme that preserve <inline-formula><tex-math>documentclass[12pt]{minimal} usepackage{amsmath} usepackage{wasysym} usepackage{amsfonts} usepackage{amssymb} usepackage{amsbsy} usepackage{mathrsfs} usepackage{upgreek} setlength{oddsidemargin}{-69pt} begin{document}$$Lambda$$end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula>CDM as a highly accurate approximation. This paper concludes that both the current cosmological research programme and the <inline-formula><tex-math>documentclass[12pt]{minimal} usepackage{amsmath} usepackage{wasysym} usepackage{amsfonts} usepackage{amssymb} usepackage{amsbsy} usepackage{mathrsfs} usepackage{upgreek} setlength{oddsidemargin}{-69pt} begin{document}$$Lambda$$end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula>CDM branch of it are well-positioned to resolve the Hubble tension, thus mitigating concerns of an epistemic crisis.","PeriodicalId":48832,"journal":{"name":"European Journal for Philosophy of Science","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148693292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"When are small-scale field experiments in solar geoengineering worth pursuing?","authors":"Ryan O’Loughlin, Daniele Visioni","doi":"10.1007/s13194-026-00762-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-026-00762-9","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a set of heuristics—scientific rigor, safety, usefulness, engagement, and transparency—for assessing the pursuitworthiness of small-scale field experiments in solar geoengineering research. Rather than offering a fixed logic of pursuit, we emphasize that these heuristics should operate as part of a dynamic and iterative evaluative process within the solar geoengineering research community, responsive to changing modeling priorities, new data, and shifting ethical and political landscapes. We argue that such experiments must be understood within the broader context of climate modeling research, where their primary role is to improve model components and identify further uncertainties. Our analysis assumes, rather than argues for, the pursuitworthiness of solar geoengineering research as a whole. However, we conclude this work by revisiting the overarching question of whether solar geoengineering research itself is worth pursuing; we argue that accounts that focus on how research governance can reduce bias and build stable scientific norms offer a more promising route than appeals to urgency or “moonshot” missions. Overall, we provide a structured framework, situated within scientific practice, that can help determine which field experiments are worth undertaking and why.","PeriodicalId":48832,"journal":{"name":"European Journal for Philosophy of Science","volume":"66 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148612826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mechanism, interventionism, and causation in structuralism","authors":"Yihan Jiang","doi":"10.1007/s13194-026-00763-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-026-00763-8","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, Jiang (2024; 2025a) has proposed a novel processual structuralist framework that integrates structuralism (ontic structural realism) with processualism for the metaphysics of biology. In this paper, I further develop the account and shows how it sheds new light on key debates within structuralism and the metaphysics of causation, advancing current discussions in these areas. In particular, I focus on two further implications of this framework: First, drawing inspiration from certain new mechanists (e.g., Illari and Williamson 2013; Krickel 2018), I argue that the framework naturally gives rise to an activity-based account of causation within structuralism, thereby addressing a gap in the literature on structuralism and causation in the special sciences. Although some scholars have explored the relationship between structuralism and causation, particularly in the Special Topical Collection of Synthese (Hüttemann 2017), few have specifically addressed how structuralism might accommodate causation within the special sciences. Here, I show how this novel structuralist account of causation advances beyond previous attempts, such as those by Ladyman and Ross (2007) and French (2014). Furthermore, I argue that this activity-based account of causation offers a novel metaphysical foundation for the interventionist account, filling in another previously underexplored limitation in the existing literature. Interventionism, while widely adopted in the philosophy of science, has often been criticized for its lack of explicit metaphysical grounding (e.g., Kuorikoski 2014). By grounding causation in the activities and processes characterized within a structuralist framework, the account offers the ontological basis that interventionism requires. In doing so, it contributes to the broader philosophical task of furnishing a robust metaphysical framework for interventionism.","PeriodicalId":48832,"journal":{"name":"European Journal for Philosophy of Science","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148693290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A philosophical introduction to in-silico clinical trials","authors":"Joseph O’Brien, Joseph Masotti, Nancy Cartwright","doi":"10.1007/s13194-026-00758-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-026-00758-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48832,"journal":{"name":"European Journal for Philosophy of Science","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148408952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Credibility and trustworthiness: the promises of sociogenomic integration and research on gene-environment interaction","authors":"Olesya Bondarenko","doi":"10.1007/s13194-026-00750-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-026-00750-z","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides a philosophical examination of the integrative field of sociogenomics which seeks to incorporate genomic tools into social science research on individual outcomes. I characterise sociogenomic integration as being guided by two main promises, which I define as the promises of credibility and trustworthiness. I demonstrate that for the social sciences, this type of integration has been associated with the promise of epistemic credibility, especially in the context of claims about causal effects of the social environment. In turn, for behavioural genetics and genomics, the introduction of theoretical resources from disciplines such as sociology is thought to generate ethical trustworthiness by supporting a non-determinist, sociocontextual perspective on the role of genetic factors in individual outcomes. The paper offers a detailed analysis of sociogenomic research on gene-environment interaction (G × E) to illustrate what the two promises entail and to examine whether they are being convincingly realised by this type of inquiry. I argue that sociogenomic studies of G × E fall short on both counts: they cannot be said to measure complex dimensions of social organisation such as equality, and they are also not as clearly opposed to genetic determinism as their advocates maintain. I draw out the implications of this state of affairs for sociogenomic integration and for the role of the social sciences within it.","PeriodicalId":48832,"journal":{"name":"European Journal for Philosophy of Science","volume":"71 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148289714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A recipe for causal selection","authors":"Stuart Glennan","doi":"10.1007/s13194-026-00754-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-026-00754-9","url":null,"abstract":"Philosophers often hold that causes are things that make a difference to their effects, and on most versions of this view, any event has countless causes. Such a view counts the oxygen in the air as much as the lighted match as a cause of the fire, and counts the big bang as a cause of everything. In practice though most of these causes are ignored and only a few are mentioned. I take the causal selection problem to be that of identifying the principles that justify selecting some few factors as causes of an effect. In this paper I will argue for a set of principles, packaged as a recipe for constructing causal explanations. This recipe will show how causes must be selected as part of explanations, and that appropriate selections depend upon the audience and their goals. These parameters determine not just what causes are selected, but also what effects are identified as explanatory targets, and how causes are represented in models. I shall illustrate how the recipe works by applying it to the investigation of two aircraft accidents.","PeriodicalId":48832,"journal":{"name":"European Journal for Philosophy of Science","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148355627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The pursuitworthiness of chemical experimentation","authors":"Vanessa A. Seifert","doi":"10.1007/s13194-026-00751-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-026-00751-y","url":null,"abstract":"Chemistry is an experimental science. One cannot learn nor practice chemistry without conducting experiments and spending some time in a laboratory. To appreciate this, I employ the concept of pursuit and show the different ways in which experiments in chemistry have been and continue to be worthy of pursuit. I claim that, beyond theory-testing and development, chemical experimentation has been worthy of pursuit in at least four distinct respects: it is pursued for educational purposes; industrial development; technological innovation; and, the historiography of chemistry. Based on this analysis, I formulate the first explicit taxonomy of pursuit in relation to chemical experimentation. This taxonomy reveals the uniquely important role of experimentation in chemistry. In addition, it shows that the concept of pursuit is a multifaceted and dynamical concept. The analysis of experimentation from the perspective of this taxonomy allows us to consider the value of scientific experimentation in a much broader context than before.","PeriodicalId":48832,"journal":{"name":"European Journal for Philosophy of Science","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148355692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Science policy advising & political legitimacy: a feminist public reason account","authors":"Adam C. Smith","doi":"10.1007/s13194-026-00749-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-026-00749-6","url":null,"abstract":"Science advising committees are an integral part of many public policies and, therefore, affect the political legitimacy of such policies. The role of science advising in the policymaking process is complicated by the fact that science and science policy advising are value-laden. Thus, an account of what values are appropriate for use in science policy advising is needed so that the final advice helps ensure that public policies are politically legitimate. One leading approach to solving this problem is using a deliberative democracy account of political legitimacy. In this paper, I build on existing objections by Soazig Le Bihan (<xref ref-type=\"bibr\">2024</xref>) and Kristina Rolin (<xref ref-type=\"bibr\">2021</xref>) and argue that this approach is underspecified and fails to adequately prevent the marginalization of knowledge and values of oppressed and minority groups in the science policy advising process. I explore how a different account of political legitimacy, public reason, addresses the problem of value-laden science policy advising. I then argue that Lori Watson and Christie Hartley’s () feminist account of public reason provides more detailed criteria for appropriate value influence in science policy advising, thereby better preventing marginalization. Specifically, their account requires the absence of domination and the provision of the social conditions necessary for recognition respect. Finally, I argue that these two criteria of feminist public reason can be achieved in practice if science policy advising committees adopt a combination of Helen Longino’s (<xref ref-type=\"bibr\">1990</xref>, <xref ref-type=\"bibr\">2002</xref>) critical contextual empiricism and Sandra Harding’s (<xref ref-type=\"bibr\">2015</xref>) strong objectivity.","PeriodicalId":48832,"journal":{"name":"European Journal for Philosophy of Science","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148286278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The nature of research environments: editorial introduction","authors":"Sabina Leonelli, Rose Trappes","doi":"10.1007/s13194-026-00755-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-026-00755-8","url":null,"abstract":"This collection shines a spotlight on the notion of the research environment. How has this concept been understood within the philosophical and scientific literatures so far, and how can it be conceptualised otherwise and going forward? What are its implications for understanding scientific change and knowledge development, particularly given the technological, institutional, methodological and social transformations that the research landscape has undergone over time? Contributions to this collection draw on history, social studies and philosophy of science. One aim of the collection is to develop and explore a variety of conceptualisations of research environments in light of ideas about the environment from biological and cognitive sciences, including the relation between organisms and their environments. Another aim is to demonstrate how conceptualisations of research environments serve as a frame for investigating and understanding scientific inquiry and the conditions under which it is carried out.","PeriodicalId":48832,"journal":{"name":"European Journal for Philosophy of Science","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148286292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}