| Description |
399 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Midwest studies in philosophy ; v. 18
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Fictionalism / Arthur Fine -- Underdetermination, realism, and reason / John Earman -- Epistemology for empiricists / Elliott Sober --Wittgensteinian Bayesianism / Paul Horwich -- Carnapian inductive logic for a value continuum / Brian Skyrms -- How to defend a theory without testing it : Niels Bohr and the "logic of pursuit" / Peter Achinstein --Empiricism, objectivity, and explanation / Elisabeth A. Lloyd and Carl G. Anderson -- Theoretical explanation / R. I. G. Hughes -- Selective scientific realism, constructive empiricism, and the unification of theories / Steven Savitt -- Essentially general predicates / Peter Railton -- On philosophy and natural philosophy in the seventeenth century / Howard Stein -- There's a hole and a bucket, dear Leibniz / Mark Wilson -- |
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The transcendental character of determinism / Patrick Suppes --Idealization and explanation : a case study from statistical mechanics / Lawrence Sklar -- The fabric of space : intrinsic vs extrinsic distance relations / Philip Bricker -- Against experimental metaphysics / Martin R. Jones and Robert K. Clifton -- Scientific realism and quantum mechanical realism / Linda Wessels -- Vacuum concepts, potentia, and the quantum field theoretic vacuum explained for all / Paul Teller -- Genic selection, molecular biology, and biological instrumentalism / Alex Rosenberg --Could there be a science of economics? / John Dupre -- Function and design / Philip Kitcher. |
| Subject |
Science -- Philosophy.
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| Added Author |
French, Peter A.
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Uehling, Theodore Edward.
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Wettstein, Howard K.
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| ISBN |
026801406X |
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