Verifiability Principle [addendum] The doctrines associated with the slogan that meaning is the mode of verification continued to develop in the last four decades of the twentieth century. While the exact formulation of the principle was itself...

Philosophy of Medicine The subject matter unique to philosophy of medicine In Philosophy of Science, edited by M. Salmon, et al. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: 1992. Wulff, H. Rational Diagnosis and Treatment. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications,...

Common Cause Principle No correlation without causation. This is the most compact formulation of Reichenbach 209. Boston: D. Reidel,...

. The study of science in the broadest sense, its nature, aims, methods, tools, parts, range, and relation to other subjects. The study of how science works is normally taken as a fair guide to how it should. This study is often called methodology, a...

Philosophy of science is the study of assumptions, foundations, and implications of science. The field is defined by an interest in one of a set of "traditional" problems or an interest in central or foundational concerns in science. In addition to...

ABSTRACT The use of climate simulations in scientific assessments of climate change and in the formulation of climate change scenarios has been contested for, among others, methodological reasons. The "philosophy of climate science" encompasses discussions about the methodology of climate science. Three issues...

Chair: Robert Waltzer, Belhaven College Vicechair: Paula Smithka, University of Southern Mississippi THURSDAY MORNING Imperial Room 8:30 THE RE-EMERGENCE OF "THE OLD PROBLEM OF UNIVERSALS" WITHIN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Michael J. Fitzgerald, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg,...