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Dynamics of Science : Computational Frontiers in History and Philosophy of Science - GRANT RAMSEY

Dynamics of Science

Computational Frontiers in History and Philosophy of Science

By: GRANT RAMSEY

Hardcover | 28 November 2022

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Millions of scientific articles are published each year, making it difficult to stay abreast of advances within even the smallest subdisciplines. Traditional approaches to the study of science, such as the history and philosophy of science, involve closely reading a relatively small set of journal articles. And yet many questions benefit from casting a wider net: Is most scientific change gradual or revolutionary? What are the key sources of scientific novelty? Over the past several decades, a massive effort to digitize the academic literature and equip computers with algorithms that can distantly read and analyze a digital database has taken us one step closer to answering these questions. The Dynamics of Science brings together a diverse array of contributors to examine the largely unexplored computational frontiers of history and philosophy of science. Together, they reveal how tools and data from automated textual analysis, or machine "reading," combined with methods and models from game theory and cultural evolutionary theory, can begin to answer fundamental questions about the nature and history of science. AUTHORS: Grant Ramsey is a research professor at the Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Belgium. His work centers on philosophical problems at the foundation of evolutionary biology. He runs the Ramsey Lab, a highly collaborative research group focused on issues in the philosophy of the life sciences. Andreas De Block is a professor at the Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Belgium. His current research interests revolve around philosophy of sex, science, and values, and experimental philosophy of medicine. He likes to collaborate with researchers from other disciplines, and has published with legal scholars, psychologists, economists, sport scientists, and biologists.
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A revolution is brewing in the discipline of history and philosophy of science, and it is easy to foresee a near future in which computational methods will be as important to the historian and philosopher of science as historical case studies are nowadays. If you don't want to miss the revolution, Grant Ramsey and Andreas De Block's groundbreaking volume is a must-read: its eleven chapters by an all-star cast will show you the promises of this new approach.--Edouard Machery, University of Pittsburgh
A valuable advancement in bridging the gap between philosophy of science and quantitative studies of science.-- "Metascience"
This is a valuable volume that . . . reveals a new field full of potential.-- "British Journal for the History of Science"

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