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Author:   Cristián Soto
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
Volume:   477
Weight:   0.863kg
ISBN:  

9783031323744

ISBN 10:   3031323742
Pages:   456
Publication Date:   29 August 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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In Memoriam Roberto TorretttiAcknowledgments 1. Editor’s Introduction: Celebrating Roberto Torretti, Cristián Soto 2. Roberto Torretti’s Philosophy of ScienceCristián Soto 3. Du Châtelet on Absolute and Relative MotionKatherine Brading and Qiu Lin  4. Effective Field Theories: A Case Study for Torretti’s Perspective on Kantian Objectivity Thomas Ryckman 5. A Kantian-Rooted Pluralist Realism for ScienceOlimpia Lombardi 6. Mathematical Fictionalism RevisitedOtávio Bueno 7. Functionalism as a Species of ReductionJeremy Butterfield and Henrique Gomes 8. Intertheoretic Reduction in Physics beyond the Nagelian ModelPatricia Palacios 9. Inductive Inferences on Galactic Redshift, Understood MateriallyJohn D. Norton 10. When Does a Boltzmannian Equilibrium Exist?Charlotte Werndl and Roman Frigg  11. Boltzmannian Non-Equilibrium and Local VariablesRoman Frigg and Charlotte Werndl 12. Scientific Understanding in Astronomical Models from Eudoxus to KeplerPablo Acuña 13. Reinterpreting Crucial ExperimentsAlejandro Cassini 14. Non-Reflexive Logics and Their Metaphysics. A Critical AppraisalJonas R. B. Arenhart 15. Typicality of Dynamics and Laws of NatureAldo Filomeno 16. The Case of Phonons: Explanatory or Ontological PriorityHernán Lucas Accorinti, Sebastian Fortin, Manuel Herrera, and Jesús JaimesAppendix: Publications by Roberto Torretti

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Dr. Cristián Soto is Associate Professor at the Departamento de Filosofía, Universidad de Chile, and Newton International Fellow for the British Academy, based at the CPNSS, LSE, UK. He earned his doctoral degree at the University of Melbourne, Australia (2016), developing a framework for a minimalist metaphysics of science. He has held visiting appointments at the Department of Philosophy, University of Miami, U.S.A.; the CPNSS, LSE, UK; the MCMP, LMU, Munich, Germany; and the Logos Research Group in Analytic Philosophy, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. In 2020, he was awarded a visiting fellowship at the Center for the Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A., which had to be declined due to the COVID pandemic. He has published extensively on history and philosophy of laws of nature, metaphysics of science, and the scientific realism debate, with his current work at the LSE focusing on the intertwining of laws and the application of mathematics. He is a founding member and first president of the Sociedad Chilena de Filosofía de las Ciencias, and Director of the Grupo de Estudios de Filosofía de las Ciencias at the Universidad de Chile.

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