Final Report Summary - IDEALIZATIONS (The Epistemic Role of Scientific Idealization)
Work on this project was done at the Center for Logic, Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Bucharest, Department of Theoretical Philosophy, and resulted in over 20 invited talks and contributed presentations at international scientific conferences; several articles and chapters published or forthcoming in top international journals and presses (e.g. Synthese, History and Philosophy of Logic, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, Foundations of Physics, Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, Western Ontario Studies in Philosophy of Science); organization of numerous international workshops; and newly designed courses and seminars for both undergraduates and graduate students in Bucharest. The research output is relevant primarily to academic philosophers working in philosophy of science and philosophy of physics, but may also be interesting to the large intellectual public.