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Information: Compositional Abduction and Scientific Interpretation
A Granular Approach
, pp. 258 - 260

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NB. Many terms, such as “constitution,” “data,” “enabling,” “interpretation,” “level,” and “results,” have multiple uses. This index cites only the theoretical sense of the terms introduced in this book.

action potential, See potential, action

Barlow, Horace B., 157

Baumgartner, Günter, 14–15, 97–99, 157–159, 176–177

Bernstein, Julius, 100, 116–119, 145, 198

Bogen, James, 70–74, 216

bottom-up experiment, See experiment, bottom-up

Bromberger, Sylvain, 206–208

Campos, Daniel, 179

Carey, Susan, 111–112

Carvey, Christina E., 165–168, 196

childbed fever, 5–6, 102, 204, 212–213

Chomsky, Noam, 110–112

cognitive map, 4–5, 53, 93–96, 110, 150, 178, 182, 214, 218

Cole, Kenneth, 71, 104–106, 120–123, 127, 131, 138, 240

constitution, 7, 12, 15–17, 40, 49–50, 52, 56, 62–63

controlled experiment, See experiment, controlled

Craver, Carl, 10, 21–22, 50, 54–55, 220–224, 233, 235–238

Cronin, Jane, 136–137

Curtis, Howard, 71, 104–106, 120–123, 127, 138

Darden, Lindley, 21–22, 27

data, 70–75, 90–91, 116, 120, 122, 126, 129, 152, 156, 162, 239

data target, See results

De Regt, Henk W., 36–38

deductive-nomological model, 40–42, 60, 84, 102, 107, 145, 185

DN model, See deductive-nomological model

Douven, Igor, 33–34, 191

enabling, 21, 46–47, 51–52, 155–156, 158, 239

experiment

bottom-up, 222–226, 230–232

controlled, 6, 8, 10, 67, 75–81, 118, 129–130, 187–188, 202, 204, 206–213

interlevel, 220–242

intralevel, 6, 9–11, 35–36, 110–112, 152, 156, 167, 169, 220–222, 224–234

top-down, 169–170, 222, 232, 242

experimental results, See results

explanatory virtues, See Virtues

Gabbay, Dov, 22–23, 183–186

Glennan, Stuart, 10, 20–21, 220–224

Glymour, Clark, 106

Hanson, N. R., 26

Harman, Gilbert, 5, 10, 24–25, 28, 83, 113, 179, 186–203, 205, 226

HD confirmation, See hypothetico-deductive confirmation

Hempel, Carl, 102–104

Hermann grid illusion, 9, 15, 53–54, 72, 80, 93, 96–99, 107, 152–170, 176–177, 196, 198, 229

Hermann, Ludimar, 153–157

Hodgkin, Alan, 1–10, 15–18, 23–25, 28–37, 43–45, 50, 54–56, 60–61, 68–69, 71–72, 76–101, 112–151, 156, 178, 181–182, 185, 194–198, 204, 210–221

Huxley, Andrew, 1–10, 15–18, 23–25, 29–37, 43–45, 50, 54–56, 61–66, 68–69, 71–72, 76–101, 112–151, 156, 178, 181–182, 185, 194–198, 204, 210–221

Hypothetico-deductive confirmation, 8–9, 43, 84, 101–109, 114, 138, 140–142, 145, 162, 175–177, 185, 219–220, 224–225, 235, 240

IBE, See inference to the best explanation

implementation, 7, 11, 15–18, 40, 49–50, 52–54, 56, 62–63, 89, 91, 99, 111–112, 114, 122, 125, 155, 157, 163, 170, 176–177, 182, 223–228, 230–231

inference to the best explanation, 5–6, 10–11, 22, 28, 30–31, 33–34, 37, 83, 88, 171, 179–182, 186–220, 226, 240–241

interlevel abduction, See singular interlevel abduction

interlevel experiment, See experiment, interlevel

interpretation, 3, 5–6, 9–10, 12–16, 21, 26–27, 30–32, 36, 69, 80, 96, 112–113, 116–117, 125, 128, 132–133, 146, 166, 170, 184, 187, 194–195, 201–206, 219, 239, 241, 243

intralevel experiment, See experiment, intralevel

Ioannidis, Stavros, 19

Kahneman, Daniel, 27

Kaplan, David, 227–229, 236

Katz, Bernard, 8, 31, 44–45, 50, 61, 68–69, 78–80, 116, 125–128

Kauffman, Stuart, 20

Keynes, Richard, 30, 128–130

Kuffler, Stephen, 157

Kuhn, Thomas, 216

level, 6–7, 11, 18, 36, 46, 48–49, 56, 91, 98, 110, 208

Lippitt, Ronald, 4–5, 71, 206, 210, 214

Lipton, Peter, 5–6, 28, 92, 171, 179, 191, 193, 196, 202–219

Magnani, Lorenzo, 82, 181–183

Marmont, George, 121, 131

matched interlevel experiments, 220–238

Maudlin, Tim, 19

Medawar, Peter, 28

membrane theory, 100, 116–119, 122–123, 198

MIE, See matched interlevel experiments

mutual manipulability, 16, 50, 221, 227, 233, 235

Nernst equation, 61, 117–118, 123, 134–138

New Mechanism, 6, 16, 19–22, 27, 32–33, 36–37, 47–48, 54, 62–63, 88, 220–238

Norton, John, 23, 34, 193–194, 213

Nubiola, Jaime, 178

particulars, See spatiotemporal particulars

Peirce, Charles S., 5, 10, 23–24, 26, 30, 82, 85–86, 171–180, 186–188, 190, 193, 199–200, 225–226, 240–241

Pitt, Joseph C., 35–38

pluralism, 33–34, 239

potential

action, 1, 18, 23, 29, 33, 36, 49–50, 54–55, 68–72, 78–80, 91–92, 100, 104–105, 109, 114, 116–117, 119–128, 131, 145, 152, 181–182, 196, 198, 208, 215–216, 219, 239–240

resting, 44, 50, 61, 67–68, 116, 119, 123, 126–128, 135, 140, 147, 149–150

Povich, Mark, 220–224

Prychitko, Emily, 230–232

Psillos, Stathis, 19, 33–34

puerperal fever, 14, 103–104, See also childbed fever

rates, 8, 11, 46, 67–69, 73, 78–80, 81, 89, 128–129, 212–213

realization, 15, 17, 40, 49–50, 52, 56, 62–63

resting potential, See potential, resting

results, 1–15, 21–32, 48, 61, 67–98, 105, 112, 116–206, 218–219, 225, 235, 239–242

retinal ganglion cells, 15, 53–54, 73, 80, 93, 96–98, 107, 157–170, 176–177, 182, 196, 198

review articles, 7, 13, 26, 28–29, 32

RGC, See retinal ganglion cells

Romo, Ranulfo, 228–229

Schiller, Peter H., 165–168, 196

Schurz, Gerhard, 33–34, 88, 191–193, 196, 203–204

science-first, 5–6, 10–11, 25, 38, 180–184, 187, 197, 219, 221–222, 239, 242

Semmelweis, Ignaz, 6, 14, 102–104, 204, 212–213

Shan, Yafeng, 107–109

simultaneous contrast, 153–157

singular interlevel abduction, 34–35, 153, 168–170, 220, 226–227, 238, 242

Skinner, B. F., 217–218

spatiotemporal particulars, 3, 40, 47, 69–70, 72, 99, 112, 124, 126–127, 129, 162, 216, 239

Spence, Kenneth, 4–5, 206, 210, 214

Spillman, Lothar, 159–164, 169–170, 176–177, 182

tacking problem, 101–102, 106–108, 138, 240

Talbot, William H., 228–231

textbooks, 7, 13, 26, 29–30, 32

Thagard, Paul, 30–31, 197–199, 217

T-maze, 71, 93–95, 178, 182

Tolman, Edward C., 4–5, 36, 71, 93–96, 98–99, 110–112, 178, 182, 185, 187, 206, 214, 218

top-down experiment, See experiment, top-down

van Fraassen, Bas, 202, 207–208

virtues, 24, 100–101, 187–189, 195–196, 203, 214–219

Wimsatt, William, 3

Wolfe, Jeremy M., 164–166

Woods, John, 22–23, 183–186

Woodward, James, 70–74, 216

Y-maze, 4–5, 71, 206, 214

Young, John Z., 44–45

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