"The authors introduce the two main theoretical approaches in SM, Boltzmannian SM and Gibbsian SM, and discuss how they conceptualise equilibrium and explain the approach to it. In doing so, the authors examine how probabilities are introduced into the theories, how they deal with irreversibility, how they understand the relation between the micro and the macro level, and how the two approaches relate to each other."
"In this article, after briefly describing the meaning of the notion of truth, I have tried to analyse the relation between value and science in detail and provide an explanation for the present-day hypertrophic, rigid, and not reality-bound value system and its ideological penetration into science and medicine."
Hey @histodons and @physics, what's a good book about the #manhattanproject that gives me a brief overview? Preferably in English or German. I recently read some historical books about early twentieth century #physics and the #viennacircle of the #philosophyofscience which kind of lead me to this topic.
“The replication crisis is less of a ‘crisis’ in the Lakatosian approach than it is in the Popperian and naïve methodological falsificationism approaches”
for all those considering to deal with persistence in time, and hence regularly at pains with an 'enduring substance' concept as inherited from the questionable Aristotle-Porphyry (Isagoge) tradition,
John Dupré's 2022 paper [oa at RG], taking some biological species as #IndividualProcess
imop is an excellent & rather short read
as well in that it treats the topic in the context of scientific discussion and practice in biology, and does so not only for an epistemological but as well for a scientific end.
the broader perspective may be found in editors #intro of OUP [oa] book
"A Cultural History of Chemistry in Antiquity covers the period from 3000 BCE to 600 CE, ranging across the civilizations of the Mediterranean and Near East. Over this long period, chemical artisans, recipes, and ideas were exchanged between Mesopotamia, Egypt, Phoenicia, Greece, Rome, and Byzantium."