Part I. Scientific Practices and Philosophical Traditions. 1. The tradition of scientific philosophy in Romania / Ilie Pârvu ; 2. What ought to be done and what is forbidden : rules of scientific research as categorical or hypothetical imperatives / Mircea Flonta
Part II. Mind, Language, and Technology. 3. Memory as window on the mind / Radu J. Bogdan ; 4. A momentous triangle : ontology, methodology and phenomenology in the philosophy of language / Manuela L. Ungureanu ; 5. On rule embedding artifacts / Gheorghe S̜tefanov ; 6. Issues in modeling open-ended evolution / Andreea Eṣanu
Part III. Logic, Semantics, and Social Choice. 7. On a combination of truth and probability : probabilistic independence-friendly logic / Gabriel Sandu ; 8. A remark on a relational version of Robinson's arithmetic Q / Mihai Ganea ; 9. The simple majority rule in a three-valued logic framework / Adrian Miroiu ; 10. A free logic for fictionalism / Mircea Dumitru
Part IV. Quantum Phenomena, Scientific Rrealism, and Eemergence. 11. Quantum mechanics : knocking at the gates of mathematical foundations / Radu Ionicioiu ; 12. The quantum vacuum / Gheorghe S. Paraoanu ; 13. Structural pluralism and S-dualities : a project in string realism / Ioan Muntean ; 14. The prospects for fusion emergence / Alexandru Manafu
Part V. Explanation, Models, and Mechanisms. 15. Scientific progress, understanding and unification / Sorin Bangu ; 16. When is a mechanistic explanation satisfactory? : reductionism and antireductionism in the context of mechanistic explanations / Tudor M. Băetu ; 17. Causal and mechanistic explanations, and a lesson from ecology / Viorel Pâslaru ; 18. Against harmony : infinite idealizations and causal explanation / Iulian D. Toader.
Romanian studies in philosophy of science. ISBN 9783319166544. Published by Springer in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.