qwermish's profile

About me

Username:	qwermish
Name:	Not specified
Job title:	Graduate student
Affiliation:	University of Pittsburgh
Web page:	http://aeolist.wordpress.com
Joined:	2007-07-25

What I do

Not specified

Interests

Philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, foundations of physics, evolutionary biology, Wittgenstein.

Recent Activity

2009-11-20

18:52: posted Derivation of Boltzmann Principle
04:27: posted Counterfactuals, causal independence and conceptual circularity
04:20: posted The Stalnaker-Lewis Approach to Counterfactuals
00:35: posted Reglobalizing Realism by Going Local, or (How) Should Our Formulations of Scientific Realism be Informed about the Sciences?

2009-11-18

15:20: posted On Scientific Observation

2009-11-17

04:27: posted The epistemological argument against Lewis’s regularity view of laws
04:24: posted The miracle of counterfactuals: Counterexamples to Lewis's world ordering
04:23: posted The Future Similarity Objection Revisited
04:20: posted Is Lewis's 'Genuine Modal Realism' Magical Too?

2009-11-16

02:58: posted Causation: One Word, Many Things
02:14: posted Interventions and Causal Inference

2009-11-15

05:22: posted The explanatory potential of artificial societies
05:10: posted Autonomy
04:29: added a note to Causality and model abstraction

2009-11-14

16:40: posted MOLECULAR SHAPE, REDUCTION, EXPLANATION AND APPROXIMATE CONCEPTS

2009-11-12

02:49: posted The causal homogeneity of biological kinds.
02:42: posted Overdetermining Causes
02:29: posted A physical critique of physical causation
00:28: posted Saving Unobservable Phenomena

2009-11-10

03:15: posted Cause and Counterfactual
00:35: posted General nature of the genetic code for proteins.

2009-11-09

20:05: posted Genetical Implications of the Structure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid
19:56: posted The multiplicity of experimental protocols: a challenge to reductionist and non-reductionist models of the unity of neuroscience
19:55: posted Beyond reduction: mechanisms, multifield integration and the unity of neuroscience
19:52: posted Top-down Causation Without Top-down Causes
19:51: posted Reducing mind to molecular pathways: explicating the reductionism implicit in current cellular and molecular neuroscience
15:17: posted Relation of positive and negative parenting to children's depressive symptoms.
15:16: posted Reciprocal Negative Affect in Parent-Child Interactions and Children's Peer Competency
15:14: posted Parents' Reactions to Children's Negative Emotions: Relations to Children's Social Competence and Comforting Behavior
05:51: posted Finding a place for elimination in inter-level reductionist activities: Reply to Wimsatt
05:50: posted Reductionism and its heuristics: Making methodological reductionism honest

2009-11-08

20:31: posted Of Humean Bondage