Machine generated contents note: pt. I How to Nurture or Hinder Research -- 1.Philosophies and Phobosophies -- 1.1.Midwives -- 1.2.Teachers -- 1.3.Gatekeepers -- 1.4.Wardens and Prisoners -- 1.5.Cheated -- 1.6.Mercenary -- 1.7.Escapist -- 1.8.Ambivalent -- 1.9.Conclusion -- 2.The Philosophical Matrix of Scientific Progress -- 2.1.From Skepticism to Mysterianism -- 2.2.The Social Matrix -- 2.3.The Role of Philosophy in the Birth of Modern Science -- 2.4.Materialism, Systemism, Dynamicism, and Realism -- 2.5.First Parenthesis: The Ossification of Philosophy -- 2.6.Scientism, Rationalism, and Humanism -- 2.7.Second Parenthesis: Logical Imperialism -- 2.8.The Philosophical Pentagon -- 2.9.Irregular Pentagons -- 2.10.From Social Science to Sociotechnology -- 2.11.Dogmatic and Programmatic Isms -- 2.12.Concluding Remarks -- References -- 3.Systemics and Materialism -- 3.1.The Housing Problem: A Component of a Ten-Dimensional Problem -- 3.2.Approach -- 3.3.Preliminary Examples --

Contents note continued: 3.4.Systemic Approach and Theory -- 3.5.Natural Sciences -- 3.6.Social Sciences -- 3.7.Biosocial Sciences -- 3.8.Technologies -- 3.9.The Knowledge System -- 3.10.Philosophical Systems -- 3.11.Concluding Remarks -- References -- pt. II Philosophy in Action -- 4.Technoscience? -- 4.1.Discovery and Invention -- 4.2.Primacy of Praxis? -- 4.3.Consequences of the Confusion -- 4.4."Translation" of Science into Industry via Technology -- 4.5.Authentic Technosciences -- 4.6.Conclusion -- References -- 5.Climate and Logic -- 5.1.The Kaya Identity -- 5.2.From Logic to Reality -- 5.3.A New Formula -- 5.4.Conclusion -- References -- 6.Informatics: One or Multiple? -- 6.1.From Information System to Communication System -- 6.2.Back to Information -- 6.3.Conclusion -- References -- 7.Wealth and Well-being, Economic Growth and Integral Development -- 7.1.Is Happiness for Sale? -- 7.2.Can Well-Being Be Bought? -- 7.3.The Problem of Inequality --

Contents note continued: 7.4.Sectoral Growth and Integral Development -- 7.5.Conclusions -- References -- 8.Can Standard Economic Theory Account for Crises? -- 8.1.Standard Economics Focuses on Equilibrium -- 8.2.The Economic Rationality Postulate -- 8.3.The Free Market Postulate -- 8.4.Conclusion -- References -- 9.Marxist Philosophy: Promise and Reality -- 9.1.Dialectical Materialism -- 9.2.Hegel's Disastrous Legacy -- 9.3.Historical Materialism -- 9.4.Epistemology and the Sociology of Knowledge -- 9.5.Theory and Praxis, Apriorism and Pragmatism -- 9.6.State and Planning -- 9.7.Dictatorship and Disaster -- 9.8.Conclusion -- References -- 10.Rules of Law: Just and Unjust -- 10.1.Politics, Law, and Morals -- 10.2.Legal Legitimacy -- 10.3.Political Legitimacy -- 10.4.Moral Legitimacy and Legitimacy Tout Court -- 10.5.Emergencies -- 10.6.If You Wish Order, Prepare for Disorder -- 10.7.The Ultimate Test: The Rise of Nazism -- 10.8.Legal Positivism: Fig Leaf of Authoritarianism --

Contents note continued: 10.9.Conclusion -- References -- pt. III Philosophical Gaps -- 11.Subjective Probabilities: Admissible in Science? -- 11.1.Beware Ordinary Language -- 11.2.Monty Hall Brain Teasers -- 11.3.Learned Ignorance -- 11.4.Probability as Credence -- 11.5.Prior Probabilities Are Inscrutable -- 11.6.Bayesianism Can Be Disastrous -- 11.7.Trial by Numbers -- 11.8.Concluding Remarks -- References -- 12.Does Inductive Logic Work? -- 12.1.The Semantic Objection to Inductivism -- 12.2.Bayesian Induction -- 12.3.A Radical Criticism of Bayesian Induction -- 12.4.Concluding Remarks -- References -- 13.Bridging Theories to Data -- 13.1.The Attempt to Replace the Theoretical with the Empirical -- 13.2.Philosophers Rediscover Experiment -- 13.3.What Measuring Instruments Show -- 13.4.Visualizing the Unseen -- 13.5.Theory-Based Indicators -- 13.6.The Place of Indicators in Theory Testing -- 13.7.Indicators in Quantum Physics -- 13.8.Concluding Remarks -- References --

Contents note continued: 14.Matter and Energy: Physical or Metaphysical Concepts? -- 14.1.Energy: Stuff or Property? -- 14.2.Special Energies -- 14.3.Minitheory -- 14.4.Common Errors -- 14.5.The Ontological Square -- 14.6.Conclusion -- 15.Does Quantum Physics Refute Realism, Materialism and Determinism? -- 15.1.The Spiritualist View -- 15.2.Resorting to Experiment -- 15.3.Criticism of the Subjectivist Interpretation -- 15.4.Indeterminacy and Decoherence -- 15.5.The Quantum Theory Is Not About Observers -- 15.6.Quantum Theory and Realism: An Entangled Affair -- 15.7.Has Matter Vanished? -- 15.8.Indeterminism -- 15.9.Is Rationality Limited? -- 15.10.Conclusion -- References -- 16.Parallel Universes? Digital Physics? -- 16.1.Imagination: Free and Disciplined -- 16.2.Possible Worlds -- 16.3.Virtual Worlds? Virtual Particles? -- 16.4.Digital Physics -- 16.5.Physics [≠] Semiotics -- 16.6.Concluding Remarks -- References -- 17.Can Functionalist Psychology Explain Anything? --

Contents note continued: 17.1.Functionalist Description -- 17.2.To Explain Is to Unveil Mechanisms -- 17.3.Submission Sickens -- 17.4.Beyond Nativism and Empiricism -- 17.5.Concluding Remarks -- References -- 18.Knowledge Pyramids or Rosettes? -- 18.1.Epistemological Pyramids and Rosettes -- 18.2.Logical Pyramids -- 18.3.Ontological Pyramids -- 18.4.Place of the Universal Sciences -- 18.5.Concluding Remarks -- References -- 19.Existence: Single or Double? -- 19.1.Existence and Someness -- 19.2.Existential Predicate and Anselm's Proof -- 19.3.Logic and Ontology -- 19.4.Truth: Single or Double? -- 19.5.Conclusion -- References -- 20.Conclusion: Valuation Criterion -- 20.1.Monism or Pluralism? -- 20.2.The Fertility Criterion -- 20.3.Conclusion -- References.