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2011
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Models and the locus of their truth
If models can be true, where is their truth located? Giere (e.g. 1988) has suggested an account of theoretical models on which models themselves are not truth-valued. The paper su...
Uskali Mäki
SYNTHESE
2011
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The philosophy of simulation: hot new issues or same old stew?
Computer simulations are an exciting tool that plays important roles in many scientific disciplines. This has attracted the attention of a number of philosophers of science. The m...
Roman Frigg, Julian Reiss
SYNTHESE
2011
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E. W. Beth as a philosopher of physics
This paper examines E. W. Beth’s work in the philosophy of physics, both from a historical and a systematic point of view. Beth saw the philosophy of physics first of all as an ...
Dennis Dieks
SYNTHESE
2011
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Underdetermination, realism and empirical equivalence
Are theories ‘underdetermined by the evidence’ in any way that should worry the scientific realist? I argue that no convincing reason has been given for thinking so. A crucial ...
John Worrall
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
Allophonic variations in visual speech synthesis for corrective feedback in CAPT
—This paper presents a visual speech synthesizer providing midsagittal and front views of the vocal tract to help language learners to correct their mispronunciations. We adopt ...
Ka-Ho Wong, Wai-Kit Lo, Helen Meng