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Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation
The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective 2
ISBN/EAN: 9789400711792
Umbreit-Nr.: 1514072
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: viii, 540 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 26.03.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
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- High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Berkeley sockets application programming interfacecomprises a library for developing applications in the C programming language that perform inter-process communication, most commonly for communications across a computer network. Berkeley sockets originated with the 4.2BSD Unix operating system as an API. Only in 1989, however, could UC Berkeley release versions of its operating system and networking library free from the licensing constraints of AT&T''s copyright-protected Unix. The Berkeley socket API forms the de facto standard abstraction for network sockets. Most other programming languages use an interface similar to the C API. The API is also used for Unix domain sockets, which are an interface to interprocess communication channels within a single computer. The STREAMS-based Transport Layer Interface API offers an alternative to the socket API. However, recent systems that provide the TLI API also provide the Berkeley socket API. The Berkeley socket interface, an application programming interface, allows communications between hosts or between processes on one computer, using the concept of an Internet socket.
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- This volume, the second in the Springer series Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective, contains selected papers from the workshops organised by the ESF Research Networking Programme PSE (The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective) in 2009. Five general topics are addressed: 1. Formal Methods in the Philosophy of Science; 2. Philosophy of the Natural and Life Sciences; 3. Philosophy of the Cultural and Social Sciences; 4. Philosophy of the Physical Sciences; 5. History of the Philosophy of Science. This volume is accordingly divided in five sections, each section containing papers coming from the meetings focussing on one of these five themes. However, these sections are not completely independent and detached from each other. For example, an important connecting thread running through a substantial number of papers in this volume is the concept of probability: probability plays a central role in present-day discussions in formal epistemology, in the philosophy of the physical sciences, and in general methodological debates---it is central in discussions concerning explanation, prediction and confirmation. The volume thus also attempts to represent the intellectual exchange between the various fields in the philosophy of science that was central in the ESF workshops.