Raoul Gervais
Biographic Data
| ID | 5993628 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raoul Gervais |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raoul |
| FAMILY NAME | Gervais |
| SIGNATURE | GERVAIS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3927-918X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction
Objectivity is a buzz word in philosophy of science: it permeates various metaphysical and epistemological discussions, and it helps to build public trust in science. The epistemic authority of science seems to depend on the degree to which science is objective. Conversely, "just subjective" or "not objectively verified" are labels that are often used by science skeptics and deniers to dismiss the scientific state of the art in a discipline (e.g.…
On the quality of auxiliary assumptions
In a recent contribution to this journal, David Trafimow and Joshua Uhalt (2015) argue against the tradeoff between predictive power and explanatory breadth. In their view, it is the quality of the auxiliary assumptions that allows one to make testable predictions; hence it is possible that theories of considerable explanatory breadth, when combined with the right quality auxiliary assumptions, lead to testable predictions. Unfortunately, they le…
Mechanistic and non-mechanistic varieties of dynamical models in cognitive science
The role of orientation experiments in discovering mechanisms
A framework for inter-level explanations
The status of functional explanation in psychology
The validity of functional explanations as they are commonly used in psychology has recently come under attack. Kim’s supervenience argument purports to prove that higher-level generalizations have no causal powers of their own, and hence are explanatorily irrelevant. In a nutshell, the supervenience argument forces us to either embrace epiphenomenalism of higher-level properties, or accept Kim’s specific brand of reductionism. However, with the …
Inferential explanations in biology
The status of functional explanation in psychology
The validity of functional explanations as they are commonly used in psychology has recently come under attack. Kim’s supervenience argument purports to prove that higher-level generalizations have no causal powers of their own, and hence are explanatorily irrelevant. In a nutshell, the supervenience argument forces us to either embrace epiphenomenalism of higher-level properties, or accept Kim’s specific brand of reductionism. However, with the …
Inferential explanations in biology
A framework for inter-level explanations
Mechanistic and non-mechanistic varieties of dynamical models in cognitive science
The role of orientation experiments in discovering mechanisms
On the quality of auxiliary assumptions
In a recent contribution to this journal, David Trafimow and Joshua Uhalt (2015) argue against the tradeoff between predictive power and explanatory breadth. In their view, it is the quality of the auxiliary assumptions that allows one to make testable predictions; hence it is possible that theories of considerable explanatory breadth, when combined with the right quality auxiliary assumptions, lead to testable predictions. Unfortunately, they le…
Introduction
Objectivity is a buzz word in philosophy of science: it permeates various metaphysical and epistemological discussions, and it helps to build public trust in science. The epistemic authority of science seems to depend on the degree to which science is objective. Conversely, "just subjective" or "not objectively verified" are labels that are often used by science skeptics and deniers to dismiss the scientific state of the art in a discipline (e.g.…
Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (6 works) · Explanatory power (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2 works)