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Based on the concept of self-organisation and using results from neurobiology an attempt is made to show the mechanism of the social construction of knowledge: the reduction of uncertainties as to which statements about the world would always be confronted with. This uncertainty management has a technical as well as a social dimension. Within the technical dimension it is mainly the progress of measurement...
The issue whether or in which sense science informs us about the real world has pervaded the history of thought since antiquity. Ancient and Renaissance astronomers alike extensively addressed the question if astronomical theory was restricted to “saving the phenomena” of celestial motion or could single out the real mechanisms that produced the stellar appearances. The relationship between knowledge...
The fundamental question of whether, or in what sense, science informs us about the real world has pervaded the history of thought since antiquity. Is what science tells us about the world determined unambiguously by facts, or does the content of any scientific theory in some way depend on the human condition? "Sokal’s hoax" attacked the mere seriousness of post-modern views of science...
Summary Es soll ein Beitrag zur epistemischen Charakterisierung von Computersimulationen als jenseits von Experiment und Theorie geleistet werden. Es wird argumentiert, dass die in der Simulationstechnik eingesetzten Verfahren nicht numerische Lösungen liefern, sondern deren Dynamik mittels generativer Mechanismen imitieren. Die Computersimulationen in der Klimatologie werden als systematisches wie...
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