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    On Theory Construction in Physics: Continuity from Classical to Quantum.Benjamin H. Feintzeig - 2017 - Erkenntnis 82 (6):1195-1210.
    It is well known that the process of quantization—constructing a quantum theory out of a classical theory—is not in general a uniquely determined procedure. There are many inequivalent methods that lead to different choices for what to use as our quantum theory. In this paper, I show that by requiring a condition of continuity between classical and quantum physics, we constrain and inform the quantum theories that we end up with.
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    Theory-construction and theory-testing.Peter Alexander - 1958 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 9 (33):29-38.
  3. La théorie constructive de la référence types E et descriptions définies.Michel Bourdeau - 2005 - Logique Et Analyse 48 (192):169-188.
     
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    Making theory/constructing art: on the authority of the avant-garde.Daniel Alan Herwitz - 1993 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
    Artists and critics regularly enlist theory in the creation and assessment of artworks, but few have scrutinized the art theories themselves. Here, Daniel examines and critiques the norms, assumptions, historical conditions, and institutions that have framed the development and uses of art theory. Spurred by the theoretical claims of Arthur Danto, a leader in the philosophy of the avant-garde, Herwitz reexamines the art and theory of major figures in the avant-garde movement including John Cage, Jean-François Lyotard, Jean (...)
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    From methodology to theory construction: the case of the point of view in legal theory.Tsampika Taralli - 2024 - Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy 49 (2):119-145.
    In this paper, the methodological character of the internal point of view (IPoV) will be examined. That the IPoV is a method of legal philosophy is not disputed. What is disputed is which point of view a theorist needs to occupy in order to successfully theorise about law. However, the choice between different points of view is based on the participant the theory chooses to study. This means that the participant’s viewpoint is not a method of our theory (...)
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  6. Theory Construction in Science: Strategies from Mendelian Genetics.Lindley Darden - 1993 - Journal of the History of Biology 26 (3):575-577.
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    Making Theory/Constructing Art: On the Authority of the Avant-Garde.Gregg Horowitz - 1995 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 53 (2):203-209.
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    Theory Construction and Experiment: An Empiricist View.Bas C. van Fraassen - 1980 - PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1980:663-678.
    This paper focuses on the empiricism/realism debate. The initial portion of the paper is a short sketch of the nature of the enterprise of philosophy of science. What are taken as empiricist views on theory construction and experiment are described. The paper concludes with a simple recasting of the main points at issue in the empiricism/realism debate.
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    Realism in Theory Construction.Ilkka Niiniluoto - 1999 - In Critical scientific realism. New York: Oxford University Press.
    Theoretical realism claims—against instrumentalism, constructive empiricism, entity realism, and structural realism —that the theoretical terms of successful scientific theories refer to real entities in the world, even beyond the edge of direct observability, and the principles and laws in theories are true. Critical realism qualifies this view by employing the notion of truthlikeness, which in particular applies to theories containing approximations and idealizations. The notion of truthlikeness also allows a precise formulation of a charitable account of reference for theoretical terms: (...)
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    Theory construction in high-energy particle physics.Adam Koberinski - 2019 - Dissertation, University of Western Ontario
    Science is a process, through which theoretical frameworks are developed, new phenomena defined and discovered, and properties of entities tested. The goal of this dissertation is to illustrate how high-energy physics exemplified the process of theory construction from the 1950s to 1970s, and the promising ways in which it can continue to do so today. The lessons learned from the case studies examined here can inform future physics, and may provide methodological clues as to the best way forward (...)
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    Theory construction and selection in modern physics: the S matrix.James T. Cushing - 1990 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    One of the major philosophical problems in physical sciences is what criteria should determine how scientific theories are selected and justified in practice and whether, in describing observable physical phenomena, such theories are effectively constrained to be unique. This book studies the example of a particular theory, the S-matrix theory. The S-matrix program was initiated by Heisenberg to deal with difficulties encountered in quantum field theories in describing particular phenomena. Since then, each theory has at different times (...)
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  12. Conceptual Analysis, Theory Construction, and Conceptual Elucidation.Julia Tanney - unknown
    Almost a half century after the publication of the Philosophical Investigations, it seems important to ask why Wittgenstein"s ideas have had so little impact on contemporary discussions in the philosophy of mind. A clue can be discerned by what Georges Rey says in the introduction to his book on contemporary philosophy of mind. Rey announces at the outset to his readers that his treatment of the mind aspires to be continuous with science, not with literature. He explains that there is (...)
     
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    Set theory: Constructive and intuitionistic ZF.Laura Crosilla - 2010 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
    Constructive and intuitionistic Zermelo-Fraenkel set theories are axiomatic theories of sets in the style of Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory (ZF) which are based on intuitionistic logic. They were introduced in the 1970's and they represent a formal context within which to codify mathematics based on intuitionistic logic. They are formulated on the basis of the standard first order language of Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory and make no direct use of inherently constructive ideas. In working in constructive and intuitionistic ZF we (...)
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    Theory Construction: The Work of Norman Robert Campbell.Gerd Buchdahl - 1964 - Isis 55 (2):151-162.
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    Theory Construction: From Verbal to Mathematical Formulations.Alexander Rosenberg - 1972 - Philosophy of Science 39 (4):572-573.
  16. Theory Construction and Selection in Modern Physics: The S Matrix.James T. Cushing - 1992 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 43 (3):431-433.
     
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    Theory construction in psychology: The interpretation and integration of psychological data.Gordon M. Becker - 1981 - Theory and Decision 13 (3):251-273.
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    "Dynamic systems" and theory construction.William Kessen & Gregory A. Kimble - 1952 - Psychological Review 59 (4):263-267.
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    Principle theories, constructive theories, and explanation in modern physics.Wesley Van Camp - 2011 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 42 (1):23-31.
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    Theory construction.J. J. C. Smart - 1950 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 11 (4):457-473.
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    (1 other version)The Chromosome Theory of Mendelian Inheritance: Explanation and Realism in Theory Construction.Marga Vicedo - 1990 - PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1990:179 - 191.
    This paper examines the process that led to the identification of chromosomes as carriers of genes. It focuses on the role played by explanations in theory construction and analyzes the status given to the entities and processes introduced through such explanations. I argue that the theory of the gene was a functional explanation that, as such, could not offer decisive support for the existence of genes. However, I maintain that functional explanations set the conditions of identification needed (...)
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    Biological theory construction: Is it in our genes?: Tim Lewens: The biological foundations of bioethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, 222pp, $49.50 HB.David Lambie - 2015 - Metascience 25 (1):95-97.
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    Computability Theory: Constructive Applications of the Lefthanded Local Lemma and Characterizations of Some Classes of Cohesive Powers.Daniel Mourad - 2023 - Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 29 (4):664-665.
    The Lovász local lemma (LLL) is a technique from combinatorics for proving existential results. There are many different versions of the LLL. One of them, the lefthanded local lemma, is particularly well suited for applications to two player games. There are also constructive and computable versions of the LLL. The chief object of this thesis is to prove an effective version of the lefthanded local lemma and to apply it to effectivise constructions of non-repetitive sequences.The second goal of this thesis (...)
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    Theory construction and existential description in Schelling’s treatise on freedom.Peter Dews - 2017 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 25 (1):157-178.
    Despite considerable recent attention, important features of Schelling’s famous work, the 1809 treatise On the Essence of Human Freedom, remain under-explored. One of these is the methodological dualism which Schelling advocates at the very start of the text. Schelling aims to weld together into a coherent position a first-person phenomenology of freedom and an explanation achieved by locating freedom within a conceptual system articulating the basic structure of the world. Most interpretations of the Freiheitsschrift, however, concentrate on only one of (...)
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  25. Making Theory/Constructing Art.Daniel Herwitz - 1997 - Philosophical Quarterly 47 (187):248-250.
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    Theory construction for Blodgett's latent learning.Joseph Wolpe - 1953 - Psychological Review 60 (5):340-344.
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    Theory Construction and Selection in Modern Physics: The S MatrixJames T. Cushing.Tian Cao - 1992 - Isis 83 (4):682-684.
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    Philosophical Theory-Construction and the Self-Image of Philosophy.Niels Skovgaard Olsen - 2014 - Open Journal of Philosophy 4 (3):231-243.
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    Theory construction and experimentation in high energy particle physics, circa 1960-1970.Koray Karaca - unknown
    In this paper, I address the issue of to what extent the theory-dominated view of scientific experimentation describes scientific practice. I rely on a time period from the history of High Energy Physics (HEP), which spans from early 1960s to early 1970s. I argue that theory-ladenness of experimentation (TLE), which grounds theory-dominated conception of experimentation is too coarse-grained inasmuch as it prevents us from seeing the correct relationship that exists between theorizing and experimenting in the scientific practice (...)
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    Constructics: A Methodology of Theory Construction.Shōkichi Utō - 2005 - Upa.
    In Constructics: A Methodology of Theory Construction, author Shokichi Uto introduces a systematic methodology called "Constructics." By utilizing this theory, individuals can create, construct, and effectively establish their own philosophical theory.
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    The model in theory construction.Roy Lachman - 1960 - Psychological Review 67 (2):113-129.
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  32. Theory construction and development in sociology: An appropriate framework.William A. Harris & Henry A. Walker - 1992 - Sociological Theory 10 (1):111-117.
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    Theory construction and development in sociology: A reply to Willer and to Harris and Walker.Tim Futing Liao - 1992 - Sociological Theory 10 (1):118-121.
  34. Section 2. Model Theory.Va Vardanyan, On Provability Resembling Computability, Proving Aa Voronkov & Constructive Logic - 1989 - In Jens Erik Fenstad, Ivan Timofeevich Frolov & Risto Hilpinen, Logic, methodology, and philosophy of science VIII: proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Moscow, 1987. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier Science.
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    Many approaches, but few arrivals: Merton and the columbia model of theory construction.Stephen Turner - 2009 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 39 (2):174-211.
    Robert Merton's essays on theories of the middle range and his essays on functional explanation and the structural approach are among the most influential in the history of sociology. But their import is a puzzle. He explicitly allied himself with some of the most extreme scientistic formalists and contributed to and endorsed the Columbia model of theory construction. But Merton never responded to criticisms by Ernest Nagel of his arguments or acknowledged the rivalry between Lazarsfeld and Herbert Simon, (...)
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    Inhibiting intuition: Scaffolding children's theory construction about species evolution in the face of competing explanations.Samuel Ronfard, Sarah Brown, Erin Doncaster & Deborah Kelemen - 2021 - Cognition 211 (C):104635.
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    An empirical investigation of reasoning with legal cases through theory construction and application.Alison Chorley & Trevor Bench-Capon - 2005 - Artificial Intelligence and Law 13 (3-4):323-371.
    In recent years several proposals to view reasoning with legal cases as theory construction have been advanced. The most detailed of these is that of Bench-Capon and Sartor, which uses facts, rules, values and preferences to build a theory designed to explain the decisions in a set of cases. In this paper we describe CATE (CAse Theory Editor), a tool intended to support the construction of theories as described by Bench-Capon and Sartor, and which produces (...)
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    Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy of Science: Reasoning by Analogy in Theory Construction.Lindley Darden - 1982 - PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1982:147 - 165.
    This paper examines the hypothesis that analogies may play a role in the generation of new ideas that are built into new explanatory theories. Methods of theory construction by analogy, by failed analogy, and by modular components from several analogies are discussed. Two different analyses of analogy are contrasted: direct mapping (Mary Hesse) and shared abstraction (Michael Genesereth). The structure of Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection shows various analogical relations. Finally, an "abstraction for selection theories" is (...)
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    The Technique of Theory Construction.Joseph Henry Woodger - 1964 - University of Chicago Press.
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    The nature of theory construction in contemporary psychology.K. W. Spence - 1944 - Psychological Review 51 (1):47-68.
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    J. J. C. Smart. Theory construction. Logic and language , edited by A. G. N. Flew, Basil Blackwell, Oxford 1953, and Philosophical Library, New York 1953, pp. 222–242; also Logic and language , edited and with introductions by Antony Flew, Doubleday Anchor Books, Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, N.Y., 1965, pp. 446–467. , pp. 457-473.). [REVIEW]Alonzo Church - 1973 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 38 (4):665-668.
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  42. The entanglement of logic and set theory, constructively.Laura Crosilla - 2022 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 65 (6).
    ABSTRACT Theories of sets such as Zermelo Fraenkel set theory are usually presented as the combination of two distinct kinds of principles: logical and set-theoretic principles. The set-theoretic principles are imposed ‘on top’ of first-order logic. This is in agreement with a traditional view of logic as universally applicable and topic neutral. Such a view of logic has been rejected by the intuitionists, on the ground that quantification over infinite domains requires the use of intuitionistic rather than classical logic. (...)
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  43. The Technique of Theory Construction.J. H. Woodger - 1941 - Philosophy 16 (64):419-419.
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  44. Quelques aspects épistémologiques de la théorie constructive des types.Giovanni Sommaruga Rosolemos - 1999 - Recherches Husserliennes 11:35-50.
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  45. Measurement units and theory construction.Warren W. Tryon - 1996 - Journal of Mind and Behavior 17 (3):213-228.
    The central thesis of this article is that measurement units are theoretical concepts because measurement presumes theoretical definition. New theoretical constructs can be defined in terms of algebraic combinations of previously defined measurement units. Physics has developed an impressive hierarchical knowledge structure on this basis. The unitless measures favored by psychology preclude the generation of such a knowledge hierarchy. It also leads to definitions of reliability and validity in correlational terms which can result in inaccurate measurement. Psychology has long used (...)
     
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    Analogy in scientific theory construction.Donald S. Lee - 1969 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 7 (2):107-125.
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    Paradigms in theory construction.Luciano L'Abate (ed.) - 2012 - New York: Springer.
    Introductory background -- Paradigms in the arts and social sciences -- General-integrative paradigms in psychology -- Particular-specific paradigms in psychology -- Operational paradigms in psychology -- Conclusion.
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  48. Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique.Sally Haslanger - 2012 - New York, US: Oxford University Press.
    In this collection of previously published essays, Sally Haslanger draws on insights from feminist and critical race theory and on the resources of contemporary analytic philosophy to develop the idea that gender and race are positions ...
  49. Is empirical imagination a constraint on adaptationist theory construction?Thomas E. Dickins & David W. Dickins - 2002 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25 (4):515-516.
    Andrews et al. present a form of instrumental adaptationism that is designed to test the hypothesis that a given trait is an adaptation. This epistemological commitment aims to make clear statements about behavioural natural kinds. The instrumental logic is sound, but it is the limits of our empirical imagination that can cause problems for theory construction.
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    Dynamic Computational Theory Construction and Simulation for the Dynamic Relationship Between Challenge Stressors and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors.Long Chen, Li Zhang & Qiong Bu - 2022 - Frontiers in Psychology 13.
    This study explores the dynamic feature of organizational citizenship behaviors under the condition of challenge stressors, as this has not been addressed by previous research. Combining the cybernetic theory of stress and social exchange theory, this study builds a dynamic computational model regarding the circular causality between challenge stressors and organizational citizenship behaviors. By conducting a series of simulation experiments, we validated and demonstrated important questions regarding organizational citizenship behaviors. Specifically, when both the initial value of challenge stressors (...)
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