Kagaku tetsugaku
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Volume 55, Issue 1
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  • Inference to the Explanation as a Common Method of Philosophy
    Ryo Ogawa
    2022 Volume 55 Issue 1 Pages 1-1-
    Published: December 10, 2022
    Released on J-STAGE: December 10, 2022
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4216/jpssj.55.1_1-1
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        In Japan, despite its popularity in natural science and philosophy, Inference to the Best Explanation is generally considered as an argument for scientific realism rather than as a method of philosophy. This paper aims to marshal some relevant topics in dispute and defend IBE against its critics. The distinct feature of IBE is that it considers simplicity and fruitfulness as theoretical virtues. This character makes IBE useful as a common method of philosophical inquiry. In conclusion, IBE is tenable as a heuristic to identify a working hypothesis, at least.

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  • A definition of local emergence based on the minimal model in the renormalization group method
    Kohei Morita
    2022 Volume 55 Issue 1 Pages 1-23-
    Published: December 10, 2022
    Released on J-STAGE: December 10, 2022
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4216/jpssj.55.1_1-23
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        Emergence in physics has been defined in several manners, but these definitions face some challenges. The aim of this paper is to propose a new definition of emergence as a relationship between models and overcome these problems. For this purpose, I will focus on the case of the renormalization group (RG) method, because the RG method has been considered as an instance of emergence in physics and the features of models in the RG method are revealed through the notion of minimal model. In order to highlight the key feature of the minimal model, the notion of a generalized model is introduced. The definition of emergence will be proposed by comparing the minimal model with the generalized model.

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Research Report Article
Program of the 54th Annual Meeting (2021)
Summaries of the Symposium and Workshops
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