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Author's Name | Affiliation | Paper Title |
David Boersema | Pacific University | Inductivism, Naturalism, and Metascientific Theories |
José E. Burgos | Universidad Central de Venezuela, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello |
The Relational Nature of Species Concepts |
Armando Cíntora | Critical Comments on Laudan's Theory of Scientific Aims | |
Manuel Comesaña | Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata | ¿Tiene Derecho a Existir la Filosofía de la Ciencia? ![]() |
Gustaaf C. Cornelis | Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium | Is Popularization of Science Possible? |
Gyorgy Darvas | The Institute for Advanced Symmetry Studies, Budapest, Hungary | Ontological Levels and Symmetry Breaking |
Gregg Alan Davia | University of Stuttgar and University of Mainz, Germany | Thoughts on a Possible Rational Reconstruction of the Method of "Rational Reconstruction" |
Elba del Carmen Riera | Universidad Nacional de Santiago del Estero, República Argentina | La Complejidad: Consideraciones Epistemológicas y Filosóficas ![]() |
Assen I. Dimitrov | Bulgarian Academy of Sciences | Do Attractors Exist in Physical Space: The Truth Is Out There |
Francisco Flores | Queen’s University |
“Top-Down” or “Bottom-Up”: Explaining Laws in Special Relativity |
Maarten Franssen | Delft University of Technology | The Not-so-trivial Truth of Methodological Individualism |
Vladimir G. Gamaonov | The Relation-Functional Concept Of The Information | |
Serghey Stoilov Gherdjikov | University of Sofia, Bulgaria | The Limits of Science |
Alexandru Giuculescu | Order Versus Chaos or the Ghost of Indeterminacy | |
David Gruenberg | Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey | Bootstrapping and the Problem of Testing Quantitative Theoretical Hypotheses |
David Gruender | Florida State University | On Explanation: Aristotelean and Hempelean |
Jagdish Hattiangadi | York University | Algebra As Thought Experiment |
Norma Silvia Horenstein | National University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina | Something More on What Explanation Explains ![]() |
Imre Hronszky | TU, Budapest, Hungary | Technological "Paradigms:" Cognitive Traditions and Communities in Technological Change |
Heisook Kim | Ewha Womans University, Korea | Yin and Yang: the Nature of Scientific Explanation in a Culture |
Theo A. F. Kuipers | University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands | Epistemological Positions in the Light of Truth Approximation |
Yury I. Kulakov | Novosobirsk State University, Novosobirsk, Russia | The Search for Scientific Truth Leads to God |
Jean Leroux | Université d'Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada | Les "Théories de L'image" De Helmholtz et de Hertz et les Motifs de Carnap Dans L'aufbau ![]() |
Manuel Liz | University of La Laguna, Santa Cruz, Spain | New Physical Properties |
Christoph Luetge | University of Munich, Germany | Naturalized Philosophy of Science and Economic Method |
Lorenzo Magnani | University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy | Abduction and Hypothesis Withdrawal in Science |
Anthony Mansueto | Foundation for Social Progress | Cosmic Teleology and the Crisis of the Sciences |
V. Mantatov, I. Lambaeva | East-Siberian State University of Technology, Ulan-Ude, Russia | Science, Development and Humanity |
John Losee | Lafayette College | Philosophy of Science and the Theory of Natural Selection |
Hernán Miguel | Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina | First Revelation: When Theoretical Becomes Visible |
Robert Miner | University of Notre Dame | Lakatos and MacIntyre on Incommensurability and the Rationality of Theory-change |
Khristos Nizamis | The University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia | A DNA Account of Propositions as Events: Dummett, Någårjuna, Aristotle |
Pierre Nzinzi | U.O.B Libreville, Gabon | L'erreur: pédagogue de l'humanité ![]() |
Héctor A. Palma | Ciclo Básico Común- Universidad de Buenos Aires | Polemica imaginaria entre Popper y Kuhn sobre el progreso de la ciencia según un punto de vista evolucionista ![]() |
Andrew N.Pavlenko | Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia | Epistemological Turn in European Scientific Rationality |
Volker Peckhaus | Erlangen University, Erlangen, Germany | The Heuristic Function of the Axiomatic Method |
Sheldon Richmond | Public Service Commission of Canada, Toronto, Canada | The Two Cultures Problem |
Walter Riofrio Rios | Universidad de Lima, Lima, Peru | La Vida en sus Origenes: Las Propiedades Basicas ![]() |
Erdinç Sayan | Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey | The Bayesian Theory of Confirmation, Idealizations and Approximations in Science |
Gregor Schiemann | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland | Ohne Telos und Substanz: Grenzen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Kausalitätsverständnisses ![]() |
Leonid G. Kreidik and George P. Shpenkov | Polytechnic Academy, Minsk, Belarus and Technical University, Bydgoszcz, Poland | Philosophy of Contents: Form and Coulomb's Law |
Spas Spassov | University of Toronto | Biological Teleology in Contemporary Science |
Ana Elisa Spielberg | Licenciada en Filosofía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina | Werner Heisenberg: Reflexiones Sobre Pragmatismo y Positivismo ![]() |
Lawrence H. Starkey | Principal Editor for Philosophy, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Emeritus | Particle and Astro-physics Challenge Kant's Phenomenolism |
Paul C. L. Tang | California State University, Long Beach | The Monoamine Hypothesis, Placebos and Problems of Theory Construction in Psychology, Medicine, and Psychiatry |
I.Z.Tsekhmistro | Kharkov State University | Quantum Holism as Consequence of the Relativistic Approach to the Problem of Quantum Theory Interpretation |
Daniel Videla | New School for Social Research | The Problem of Science in Heidegger's Thought |
Vaclav Cernik, Jozef Vicenik, and Emil Visnovsky | Slovak Academy of Sciences | Historical Types of Rationality |
Fritz Wallner | University of Vienna | A New Vision of Science |
Friedel Weinert | University of Bradford | When the Scientist turns Philosopher |
Yang Yaokun and Cheng Liangdao | Hubei University and Hubei Normal University | The Rationality of Scientific Discovery: The Aspect of the Theory of Creation |
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