Philosophy of Science: Between the Natural Sciences, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities

Introduction (Alexander Christian, David Hommen, Nina Retzlaff and Gerhard Schurz).- Part I: Philosophy of physics.- Chapter 1: Quantum Gravity: An Ideology of Unification? (Kian Salimkhani).- Chapter 2: On Predictions and Explanations in Multiverse Scenarios (Keizo Matsubara).- Chapter 3: The Role of the Concept of Causation in Physics (Enno Fischer).- Chapter 4: Causality in General Relativity. "Partial Determination" Revisited (Andrea Reichenberger).- Part II. Philosophy of life sciences.- Chapter 5: The Philosophical Concept of Agency between Systems Biology and Artificial Intelligence (Anne Sophie Meincke).- Chapter 6. Functions, Malfunctioning, and Negative Causation (Ludger Jansen).- Chapter 7. The Quantitative Problem for Theories of Function and Dysfunction (Thomas Schramme).- Chapter 8. On the Explanatory Character of the Serial Endosymbiotic Theory of the Origin of Eukaryotic Cells (Javier Suárez and Roger Deulofeu).- Part III. Philosophy of social sciences & values in science.- Chapter 9. Agnotological Challenges: How to Capture the Production of Ignorance (Martin Carrier).- Chapter 10. The "Invisible Hand" as a Natural Law (Judith Würgler).- Chapter 11. Micro Economics Between the Natural Sciences and the Humanities (Karsten Klint Jensen).- Chapter 12. The Role of "Ought" in Value Theory: Philosophical and Sociological Perspectives (Elizaveta Kostrova).- Chapter 13. From Stability to Validity: How Standards Serve Epistemic Ends (Lara Huber).- Part IV. Philosophy of mathematics & formal modeling.- Chapter 14. A Theory of Constitutive Inference for the Regularity Account of Mechanistic Constitution (Jens Harbecke). Chapter 15. Recognition Procedures and Dag Prawitz's Theory of Grounds (Antonio Piccolomini d'Aragona).- Chapter 16. Exploratory Modes of Scientific Inquiry: From Experimentation to Modeling (Axel Gelfert).