Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 313 Ilie Pârvu Gabriel Sandu Iulian D. Toader Editors Romanian Studies in Philosophy of Science Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Volume 313 Editors AlisaBokulich,BostonUniversity RobertS.Cohen,BostonUniversity JürgenRenn,MaxPlanckInstitutefortheHistoryofScience KostasGavroglu,UniversityofAthens ManagingEditor LindyDivarci,MaxPlanckInstitutefortheHistoryofScience EditorialBoard TheodoreArabatzis,UniversityofAthens AlisaBokulich,BostonUniversity HeatherE.Douglas,UniversityofWaterloo JeanGayon,UniversitéParis1 ThomasF.Glick,BostonUniversity HubertGoenner,UniversityofGoettingen JohnHeilbron,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley DianaKormos-Buchwald,CaliforniaInstituteofTechnology ChristophLehner,MaxPlanckInstitutefortheHistoryofScience PeterMclaughlin,UniversitätHeidelberg AgustíNieto-Galan,UniversitatAutònomadeBarcelona NuccioOrdine,UniversitádellaCalabria AnaSimões,UniversidadedeLisboa JohnJ.Stachel,BostonUniversity SylvanS.Schweber,HarvardUniversity BaichunZhang,ChineseAcademyofScience Moreinformationaboutthisseriesathttp://www.springer.com/series/5710 Ilie Pârvu (cid:129) Gabriel Sandu (cid:129) Iulian D. Toader Editors Romanian Studies in Philosophy of Science 123 Editors IliePârvu GabrielSandu DepartmentofTheoreticalPhilosophy DepartmentofPhilosophy, UniversityofBucharest History,CultureandArtStudies Bucharest,Romania UniversityofHelsinki Helsinki,Finland IulianD.Toader DepartmentofTheoreticalPhilosophy UniversityofBucharest Bucharest,Romania ISSN0068-0346 ISSN2214-7942 (electronic) BostonStudiesinthePhilosophyandHistoryofScience ISBN978-3-319-16654-4 ISBN978-3-319-16655-1 (eBook) DOI10.1007/978-3-319-16655-1 LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2015938772 SpringerChamHeidelbergNewYorkDordrechtLondon ©SpringerInternationalPublishingSwitzerland2015 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewholeorpartof thematerialisconcerned,specificallytherightsoftranslation,reprinting,reuseofillustrations,recitation, broadcasting,reproductiononmicrofilmsorinanyotherphysicalway,andtransmissionorinformation storageandretrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware,orbysimilarordissimilarmethodology nowknownorhereafterdeveloped. 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Printedonacid-freepaper SpringerInternational PublishingAGSwitzerlandispartofSpringerScience+Business Media(www. springer.com) Contents PartI ScientificPracticesandPhilosophicalTraditions 1 TheTraditionofScientificPhilosophyinRomania..................... 3 IliePârvu 2 WhatOughttoBeDoneandWhatIsForbidden:Rules ofScientificResearchasCategoricalorHypotheticalImperatives... 25 MirceaFlonta PartII Mind,Language,andTechnology 3 MemoryasWindowontheMind......................................... 45 RaduJ.Bogdan 4 A Momentous Triangle: Ontology, Methodology andPhenomenologyinthePhilosophyofLanguage.................... 55 ManuelaL.Ungureanu 5 OnRuleEmbeddingArtifacts ............................................ 71 GheorgheS¸tefanov 6 IssuesinModelingOpen-EndedEvolution.............................. 87 AndreeaEsanu ; PartIII Logic,Semantics,andSocialChoice 7 OnaCombinationofTruthandProbability:Probabilistic Independence-FriendlyLogic............................................. 105 GabrielSandu 8 A Remark on a Relational Version ofRobinson’sArithmeticQ ............................................... 125 MihaiGanea v vi Contents 9 TheSimpleMajorityRuleinaThree-ValuedLogicFramework..... 131 AdrianMiroiu 10 AFreeLogicforFictionalism............................................. 149 MirceaDumitru PartIV Quantum Phenomena, Scientific Realism, and Emergence 11 Quantum Mechanics: Knocking at the Gates ofMathematicalFoundations............................................. 167 RaduIonicioiu 12 TheQuantumVacuum..................................................... 181 GheorgheS.Paraoanu 13 StructuralPluralismandS-Dualities:AProjectinStringRealism .. 199 IoanMuntean 14 TheProspectsforFusionEmergence..................................... 221 AlexandruManafu PartV Explanation,Models,andMechanisms 15 ScientificProgress,UnderstandingandUnification .................... 239 SorinBangu 16 When Is a Mechanistic Explanation Satisfactory? Reductionism and Antireductionismin the Context ofMechanisticExplanations .............................................. 255 TudorM.Ba˘etu 17 CausalandMechanisticExplanations,andaLessonfromEcology.. 269 ViorelPâslaru 18 AgainstHarmony:InfiniteIdealizationsandCausalExplanation.... 291 IulianD.Toader Contributors SorinBangu DepartmentofPhilosophy,UniversityofBergen,Bergen,Norway Tudor M. Ba˘etu Programade Filosofia, Universidadedo Vale do Rio dosSinos, SãoLeopoldo,Brazil RaduJ.Bogdan DepartmentofPhilosophy,TulaneUniversity,NewOrleans,LA, USA MirceaDumitru DepartmentofTheoreticalPhilosophy,UniversityofBucharest, Bucharest,Romania Andreea Esanu Departmentof TheoreticalPhilosophy,University of Bucharest, ; Bucharest,Romania Mircea Flonta Department of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Bucharest, Bucharest,Romania MihaiGanea DepartmentofPhilosophy,UniversityofToronto,Toronto,Canada Radu Ionicioiu Departmentof TheoreticalPhysics, National Institute of Physics andNuclearEngineering,Bucharest-Ma˘gurele,Romania Alexandru Manafu Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology,UniversityofParis-1Panthéon-Sorbonne,Paris,France AdrianMiroiu NationalSchoolofPoliticalandAdministrativeStudies,SNSPA, Bucharest,Romania IoanMuntean TheReillyCenterforScience,Technology,andValues,University ofNotre,Dame,IN,USA Gheorghe S. Paraoanu Low Temperature Laboratory, Department of Applied Physics,AaltoUniversity,Espoo,Finland Ilie Pârvu Department of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Bucharest, Bucharest,Romania vii viii Contributors Viorel Pâslaru Department of Philosophy, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, USA Gabriel Sandu Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies, UniversityofHelsinki,Helsinki,Finland Gheorghe S¸tefanov Department of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Bucharest,Bucharest,Romania IulianD.Toader DepartmentofTheoreticalPhilosophy,UniversityofBucharest, Bucharest,Romania Manuela L. Ungureanu Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia,Okanagan,Kelowna,BC,Canada Part I Scientific Practices and Philosophical Traditions