EPSA Philosophical Issues in the Sciences

Contingency and Inherency in Evolutionary Developmental Biology.- Dualities and Intertheoretic Relations.- Are ‘Identical Quantum Particles’ Weakly Discernible Objects?.- Wave–Particle Duality in Quantum Optics.- Remarks on a Structural Account of Scientific Explanation.- Mathematical Knowledge and the Interplay of Practices.- Einstein, Kant, and the A Priori.- Causal Models and the Asymmetry of State Preparation.- Bell-Type Inequalities from Separate Common Causes.- Entanglement, Upper Probabilities and Decoherence in Quantum Mechanics.- Gauge Symmetry and the Theta-Vacuum.- The Chemical Bond: Structure, Energy and Explanation.- Randomness, Financial Markets and the Brownian Motion: A Reflection on the Role of Mathematics in Their Interaction with Financial Theory After 1973.- Causation Across Levels, Constitution, and Constraint.- Epistemic Consequences of Two Different Strategies for Decomposing Biological Networks.- Matter(s) in Relativity Theory.- Individual Particles, Properties and Quantum Statistics.- Evolution and Directionality: Lessons from Fisher’s Fundamental Theorem.- Substantive General Covariance: Another Decade of Dispute.- Relativity, Locality and Tense.- A Weylian Approach Towards Theories of Matter: Dynamic Agents and Geometrisation.- Mirroring and Understanding Action.- Absolute Objects and General Relativity: Dynamical Considerations.- Empirical Foundation of Space and Time.- Making Contact with Observations.- The Formulation and Justification of Mathematical Definitions Illustrated By Deterministic Chaos.- Do We Need Some Large, Simple Randomized Trials in Medicine?.- Incontinence, Honouring Sunk Costs and Rationality.- Causal Fundamentalism in Physics.