Index of Subjects
abstraction, 33, 45, 97, 120, 256, 278
acceptance, 22, 102, 237–38, 305–8, 312
agent, 3, 55, 63, 65, 69, 114, 175, 177, 181–82, 202, 212, 219, 233–34, 262; agential, 3, 63, 65, 67–68
cause, 10, 14, 47, 98–99, 112–13, 122, 143, 152, 158, 167, 169–73, 175, 182, 184–85, 188, 235, 247, 255, 259, 315; causal law, 10, 54, 151, 160, 167, 187; causal model, 10–12, 19, 150–54, 158–59, 165, 171, 173–74, 177, 188; causal principle, 151–52, 159–60, 166; causation, 10, 169–71, 179, 183, 185, 187–88, 315
climate: climate change, 17, 218, 232, 235, 239, 258; climate science, 16–18, 218–19, 221–22, 224, 227, 229, 231, 233–35, 317
cognitive science, 4–5, 71–73, 75–81, 86–93, 315
conceptual articulation, 6–8, 94–95, 104, 109–11
conceptual development, 7, 45, 94, 96
confirmation, 18–19, 55, 63, 86, 213, 215, 240, 245, 249–50, 253, 258, 261–62
coordination dynamics, 5, 73, 76, 89, 92–93
counterfactual, 26, 77, 171–73, 175–78, 181, 184, 187, 247, 258, 269
data: data model, 2–3, 22, 25, 27, 37, 45, 48–51, 53, 61, 64, 65, 67, 69, 189, 267; data uncertainty, 235
economics, 78, 144, 146, 152, 174, 188, 315
empiricism, 54, 56, 110, 116, 145, 187, 239, 270–71, 299, 305–7, 311–13
error, 4, 15–16, 47, 71–72, 87–88, 100–101, 108, 120, 164, 191, 193, 195–98, 201–5, 210, 216–17, 224, 235–36, 239, 301, 316
genetics, 101, 105, 129–31, 145, 263; gene regulation, 119, 125, 135; genetic circuit, 118–19, 121–25, 133, 135, 139, 141, 143, 147
Higgs boson, 15–16, 193–94, 206–7, 213, 215, 217
idealization, 18, 22, 33, 62, 120, 146, 189, 244–45, 256, 259, 263, 279–86, 288–98, 301, 303, 307, 309–10, 312
interpretation, 6, 15–16, 22, 24–25, 37, 50–51, 65, 67, 94, 111, 177, 190–91, 193, 198, 203, 205, 210, 272–74, 296, 298, 305
intervention, 14, 120–21, 146, 148, 166–67, 171–78, 183–86
Lotka–Volterra model, 125, 140, 145, 260
measurement, 1, 5, 11, 20–23, 30, 32–33, 35–37, 40–41, 43, 45–47, 50–51, 53–55, 57–58, 67, 71–72, 88, 103, 115, 146, 217, 224–25, 265, 267–79, 281, 285, 287–90, 292, 294–304, 307, 315; analytic theory of, 21, 267; representational theory of, 21, 267–70, 272
mechanics, 25, 27, 31, 34, 38, 44–45, 48, 52, 54, 57–58, 60, 99–100, 103–6, 112–14, 125–26, 128, 145, 168, 255, 269, 281, 285, 317; classical, 25, 27, 29, 31, 60, 101, 103–6, 112–15, 231, 240, 250, 282, 291, 300–301; fluid, 31, 34, 36–38, 40, 44–45, 48, 54, 57–58, 105, 122, 228, 255, 302, 308; relativity, 23, 57, 280–82, 297, 300
mechanism, 6, 14–15, 19, 76, 78, 83, 121, 124–32, 138–42, 144–45, 170, 174, 177–84, 186, 189, 199, 244, 250, 252–55, 257, 260
mediator, 7, 30–31, 54–56, 70, 96, 116
metaphysics, 14, 22, 180, 187–88, 299, 303, 311
methodological truism, 4–6, 71–72, 87–89
modality, 14, 26, 168, 177, 180–83, 186–87
model: BEFORE model, 242–45, 255–58, 260; deterministic model, 135; dynamical model, 5, 72, 76–79, 85, 90, 257; Haken-Kelso-Bunz model, 5, 73–75, 78, 90; model of the experiment, 2–5, 44, 51–52, 59–63, 65, 67–68, 269; model organism, 9–10, 121, 123–24, 129, 132, 135, 140–43; model validation, 18, 240, 245–46, 249–50, 258–59; operon model, 125; pattern oriented modeling, 257; representational model, 2, 60–62, 64–66, 67–69; representative model, 29, 112; statistical model, 16, 190–91, 194, 199, 287; synthetic model, 9–10, 118–19, 123–26, 132–33, 135–43; Wissel model, 241–45, 251, 256. See also data
neuroscience, 75, 81, 91, 142; noise, 4–6, 9, 53, 71–73, 75, 77, 79, 81–89, 91, 93, 109, 121, 135, 138, 145
nomological machine, 10, 100, 104
norm, 15, 39, 100, 110–11, 113; normativity, 7, 37, 100–101, 103–4, 107–8, 111, 115
observable, 95–96, 229, 247, 304–8
observation, 6, 16, 23–24, 39, 41, 46, 49, 59, 62–63, 73, 87–88, 95–96, 98, 102, 110, 131, 137, 178–79, 182, 196–97, 215–16, 226, 235, 241, 256, 270–71, 301, 306
oscillator, 9, 27, 72–73, 121, 134–38, 140, 142, 144, 147
parameter uncertainty, 222–23, 235
perception, 89–90, 93, 117, 185, 308–11
phenomena, 1, 3–8, 25, 28–32, 38, 42–43, 45, 50–51, 53–54, 56, 75–79, 88–89, 92, 95–106, 108–13, 115, 122, 124, 128, 131, 133, 142, 145–46, 180, 253, 257, 261, 303, 305–6, 308
phenomenology, 5, 31, 85–86, 88, 315
precisification, 292–93
presupposition, 17, 274, 276, 288–89, 297
probability: Bayesian, 15, 170, 179, 188–93, 197, 200, 202–3, 209–15, 227, 231; frequentist, 15, 189–93, 202, 205, 210–12, 214, 216–17; probabilism, 191–93, 203, 205, 210
psychology, 25, 71–72, 79–80, 87–90, 92–93, 170, 238, 272, 315
quantum, 23, 27, 52, 54, 57, 66, 101, 105, 113, 115, 168, 236, 280–82, 286, 316–17; quantum eraser experiment, 101; quantum field theory, 236, 281–82, 286, 316; quantum mechanics, 52, 113, 168, 317
realism, 14, 21–22, 24, 69, 170, 173, 247, 267, 273–75, 279, 282, 288–89, 295, 297, 300, 303, 307, 311, 315
received view, 10, 23–24, 27–28
reduction, 12, 78, 105, 114, 149–51, 153–55, 157–58, 169, 185, 250
relevance, 4, 42–43, 52, 56, 88, 92, 146, 192, 254, 316
representation, 2–3, 6, 18, 23, 25–26, 30–32, 39, 44, 50–51, 56–58, 62, 69, 79, 89–90, 96–97, 122, 136, 141, 145–47, 156, 195, 240–41, 243–46, 249, 254, 257–59, 262, 267–68, 272, 294, 296–97, 303–4, 308–13, 317
Repressilator, 9, 124, 132–36, 138, 141–42
robustness, 9, 20–21, 111, 137, 215, 245, 259–61, 263, 285, 287–90, 292, 295, 297, 301, 304, 312
semantic approach, 26–28, 30, 304
severe testing principle, 199, 212, 214
severity principle, 199, 204, 208
significance level, 16, 190, 195–97, 212
significance test, 190–91, 193, 195, 207–9, 211, 213
similarity, 7, 9, 19, 52, 57–58, 77, 118, 122, 249–52, 258, 261, 263, 304, 317
simulation, 32, 38–40, 42–43, 53–56, 58, 79, 82, 93, 118, 120–22, 125, 128, 131–33, 135, 138, 140–41, 144–46, 164, 218, 222, 228–30, 238–39, 244, 250, 262–63, 317
synergetics, 73–74, 77–79, 88, 90
synthetic biology, 118–19, 123–24, 126, 138–40, 143–46
testing principle, 199, 204, 208, 212, 214
uncertainty quantification, 16, 219
vagueness, 21–22, 284, 290, 292–94, 297–98, 309
validation, 15, 18–20, 237, 240, 245–46, 248–50, 252, 258–61