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Scientific experimental articles are modernist stories 科学实验文章是现代主义故事

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European Journal for Philosophy of Science Pub Date : 2024-07-17 DOI: 10.1007/s13194-024-00592-7

Anatolii Kozlov, Michael T. Stuart

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Quantum ontology and intuitions 量子本体论与直觉

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European Journal for Philosophy of Science Pub Date : 2024-07-10 DOI: 10.1007/s13194-024-00595-4

Valia Allori

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How do different interpretations work together in a single scientific explanatory project? A case study of the Olami-Feder-Christensen model of earthquakes 不同的解释如何在一个科学解释项目中共同发挥作用？奥拉米-费德勒-克里斯滕森地震模型案例研究

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European Journal for Philosophy of Science Pub Date : 2024-07-05 DOI: 10.1007/s13194-024-00591-8

Hernán Bobadilla

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Exploring the socio-ecology of science: the case of coral reefs 探索科学的社会生态学：珊瑚礁案例

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European Journal for Philosophy of Science Pub Date : 2024-06-20 DOI: 10.1007/s13194-024-00589-2

Elis Jones

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Local ontology: reconciling processualism and new mechanism 地方本体论：调和过程论与新机制

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European Journal for Philosophy of Science Pub Date : 2024-06-19 DOI: 10.1007/s13194-024-00587-4

Tyler D. P. Brunet

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Two construals of Hempel’s dilemma: a challenge to physicalism, not dualism 亨普尔困境的两种解释：对物理主义而非二元论的挑战

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European Journal for Philosophy of Science Pub Date : 2024-06-13 DOI: 10.1007/s13194-024-00590-9

David Buzaglo

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The preservation of thickly detectable structure: a case study in gravity 厚可探测结构的保存：重力案例研究

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European Journal for Philosophy of Science Pub Date : 2024-06-13 DOI: 10.1007/s13194-024-00588-3

Jared Hanson-Park

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On quantum computing for artificial superintelligence 关于人工超级智能的量子计算

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European Journal for Philosophy of Science Pub Date : 2024-06-04 DOI: 10.1007/s13194-024-00584-7

Anna Grabowska, Artur Gunia

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Collapsing strong emergence’s collapse problem 强涌现的崩溃问题

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European Journal for Philosophy of Science Pub Date : 2024-06-04 DOI: 10.1007/s13194-024-00586-5

J. M. Fritzman

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Overdetermination, underdetermination, and epistemic granularity in the historical sciences 历史科学中的过度判定、判定不足和认识粒度

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European Journal for Philosophy of Science Pub Date : 2024-05-30 DOI: 10.1007/s13194-024-00583-8

Christophe Malaterre

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