Hypotheses in Science

Michał Oleksowicz, K. Brad Wray, Tomasz Jarmużek (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

2026
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-032-13649-7 (ISBN)

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This book focuses on the different and complementary components of scientific hypothetical thinking as a multifaceted phenomenon in order to shed light on its crucial role in scientific development. It is now a common view that hypotheses play important roles in science, that they can bring order to data. However, the exact nature of their roles deserves more careful and systematic scrutiny. This book s novelty consists in being directly focused on the fact that hypotheses can provide suggestive clues for further scientific studies. That is, they can play a more constructive and creative role. Furthermore, it answers not only why hypotheses are so important, but also how they work within scientific context. The contributions are written by renowned philosophers of science, specifically for this volume, ensuring it is an important read for both philosophers and scientists.

Michal Oleksowicz is currently the lecturer at the Faculty of Theology (Department of Philosophy), Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun; the lecturer at the Faculty of History (Liberal Arts and Sciences), Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan; the member of research group Philosophical logic: theory and applications at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. He received PhD in philosophy (Pontifical Lateran University, Vatican City), MA in theology (Nicolaus Copernicus Univeristy, Torun, Poland). His main interests are: feasibility of mechanistic explanation in various explanatory contexts, causation, application of non-classical logics to methodological problems of sciences.

K. Brad Wray works at the Centre for Science Studies at Aarhus University, in Denmark. He has published three books: Kuhn s Intellectual Path (CUP 2021), Resisting Scientific Realism (CUP 2018), and Kuhn s Evolutionary Social Epistemology (CUP 2011). He has also edited Interpreting Kuhn: Critical Essays (CUP 2021), and is one of the two editors for the Springer/Nature journal Metascience. His research is on the social epistemology of science, the realism/anti-realism debate, the philosophy of Thomas Kuhn, and scientific publication practices. He has held visiting fellowships at Cornell University (Fall 2008), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Fall 2015), and University of Cambridge (Fall 2020).

Tomasz Jarmuzek is a member of editiorial board of Studia Logica An International Journal for Symbolic Logic. His research is on non-classical logics, proof theory and application of logic to philosophical problems. He publishes over 30 papers and 5 books. His main topics are relating semantics, relating logic and metatheory of tableau proofs. He is the president of Polish Society of Logic and Philosophy of Science.

1 Introduction: Rethinking Hypotheses (Michal Oleksowicz, K. Brad Wray, and Tomasz Jarmuzek).- 2 Osiander and Hypotheses: Revisiting Instrumentalism (K. Brad Wray).- 3 The Copernican Hypothesis in Debate: An Experimentum Crucis (Isadora Cristina de Sousa Monteiro).- 4 Kant on Forming Causal Hypotheses Without Fantasising (Lucia Oliveri and Davide Dalla Rosa).- 5 The Role of Hypothesis in Einstein s Development of the Theory of Special Relativity: A Cassirerian View (Benedetta Spigola).- 6 Hypotheses in Logic, the Adoption Problem, and the Search for a Logic of Discovery (Fabio Sterpetti).- 7 Dynamic Composition and Hypothetical Reasoning (Ken Aizawa).- 8 Causal Hypotheses and Conditionalisation (Adam Grobler).- 9 The Epistemology of Computer Simulations in Biology (Andrzej Bielecki, Pawel Polak and Marzena Bielecka).- 10 Epistemological Status of Rationality Principles in the Social Sciences: A Structural Invariance Criterion (Jeremy Attard).- 11 From Hypotheses to Systematicity and Back (Przemyslaw Robert Nowakowski).- Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.3.2026
Reihe/Serie	Synthese Library
Zusatzinfo	Approx. 300 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Naturwissenschaften
Schlagworte	History of Science • hypotheses in science • Hypothetical reasoning • Methodology • philosophy of science
ISBN-10	3-032-13649-0 / 3032136490
ISBN-13	978-3-032-13649-7 / 9783032136497
Zustand	Neuware