Romanian Studies in Philosophy of Science

PART A: SCIENTIFIC PRACTICES AND PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITIONS. - Chapter 1: The Tradition of Scientific Philosophy in Romania; Ilie Pârvu. - Chapter 2: What Ought to be Done and What is Forbidden: Rules of Scientific Research as Categorical or Hypothetical Imperatives; Mircea Flonta. - PART B: MIND, LANGUAGE, AND TECHNOLOGY. - Chapter 3: Memory as Window on the Mind; Radu Bogdan. - Chapter 4: A Momentous Triangle: Ontology, Methodology and Phenomenology in the Philosophy of Language; Manuela Ungureanu. - Chapter 5: On Rule Embedding Artifacts; Gheorghe tefanov. - Chapter 6: Issues in Modeling Open-Ended Evolution; Andreea E anu. - PART C: LOGIC, SEMANTICS, AND SOCIAL CHOICE. - Chapter 7: On a Combination of Truth and Probability: Probabilistic Independence-Friendly Logic; Gabriel Sandu. - Chapter 8: A Remark on a Relational Version of Robinson s Arithmetic Q; Mihai Ganea. - Chapter 9: The Simple Majority Rule in a Three-Valued Logic Framework; Adrian Miroiu. - Chapter 10: A Free Logic for Fictionalism; Mircea Dumitru. - PART D: QUANTUM PHENOMENA, SCIENTIFIC REALISM, AND EMERGENCE. - Chapter 11:Quantum Mechanics: Knocking at the Gates of Mathematical Foundations; Radu Ionicioiu. - Chapter 12: The Quantum Vacuum; Sorin Paraoanu. - Chapter 13: Structural Pluralism and S-dualities: A Project in String Realism; Ioan Muntean. - Chapter 14: The Prospects for Fusion Emergence; Alexandru Manafu. - PART E: EXPLANATION, MODELS, AND MECHANISMS. - Chapter 15: Scientific Progress, Understanding, and Unification; Sorin Bangu. - Chapter 16: When is a Mechanistic Explanation Satisfactory? Reductionism and Antireductionism in the Context of Mechanistic Explanations; Tudor Baetu. - Chapter 17: Causal and Mechanistic Explanations, and a Lesson from Ecology; Viorel Pâslaru. - Chapter 18: Against Harmony: Infinite Idealization and Causal Explanation; Iulian D. Toader.