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Design principles as minimal models 作为最小模型的设计原则

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Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Pub Date : 2024-05-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2024.03.003

Wei Fang

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Phase transitions and the birth of early universe particle physics 相变与早期宇宙粒子物理学的诞生

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Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Pub Date : 2024-05-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2024.03.006

Adam Koberinski

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Tracing the evidence of design: Natural theology through an unpublished manuscript by William Stanley Jevons 追踪设计的证据：通过威廉-斯坦利-杰文斯未发表的手稿看自然神学

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Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Pub Date : 2024-05-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2024.05.008

Eleonora Buono

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A framework for the integration of development and evolution: The forgotten legacy of James Meadows Rendel 发展与进化相结合的框架：詹姆斯-梅多斯-伦德尔被遗忘的遗产

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Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Pub Date : 2024-05-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2024.05.007

María Alejandra Petino Zappala

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Mental health promotion and the positive concept of health: Navigating dilemmas 促进心理健康与积极健康观：左右为难

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Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Pub Date : 2024-04-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2024.03.002

Somogy Varga , Martin Marchmann Andersen , Anke Bueter , Anna Paldam Folker

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A tale of a threshing machine: Images of the Voigt-Leibniz mathematical-agricultural machine at the beginning of the 18th century 脱粒机的故事18 世纪初福伊特-莱布尼兹数学农业机器的图像

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Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Pub Date : 2024-04-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2024.01.005

Michael Friedman

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On algebraic naturalism and metaphysical indeterminacy in quantum mechanics 论量子力学中的代数自然主义和形而上学不确定性

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Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Pub Date : 2024-04-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2023.12.012

Tushar Menon

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Extrapolating animal consciousness 推断动物的意识

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Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Pub Date : 2024-03-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2024.03.001

Tudor M. Baetu

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From S-matrix theory to strings: Scattering data and the commitment to non-arbitrariness 从 S 矩阵理论到弦：散射数据与非任意性承诺

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Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Pub Date : 2024-03-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2023.12.011

Robert van Leeuwen

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Independent evidence in multi-messenger astrophysics 多信使天体物理学的独立证据

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Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Pub Date : 2024-03-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2024.02.006

Jamee Elder

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