Format:
IX, 429 S
,
graph. Darst
,
24 cm
ISBN:
0816618011
Series Statement:
Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science 14
Note:
Realism, approximate truth, and philosophical method / Richard Boyd -- Contrastive empiricism / Elliott Sober.
,
Seek and ye might find / Arthur L. Caplan -- The psychoanalytic enterprise in scientific perspective / Adolf Grünbaum -- On the nature of theories : a neurocomputational perspective / Paul M. Churchland -- Are economic kinds natural? / Alan Nelson -- Foundational physics and empiricist critique / Lawrence Sklar -- Theories as mere conventions / Henry E. Kyburg, Jr. -- Rationality and objectivity in science, or Tom Kuhn meets Tom Bayes / Wesley C. Salmon -- Bayesian problems of old evidence / Ellery Eells -- Fitting your theory to the facts : probably not such a bad thing after all / Colin Howson -- The value of knowledge / Brian Skyrms -- Demystifying underdetermination / Larry Laudan -- Dubbing and redubbing : the vulnerability of rigid designation / Thomas S. Kuhn -- Scientific revolutions and scientific rationality : the case of the elderly holdout / John Worrall.
Language:
English
Subjects:
Physics
,
Philosophy
Keywords:
Wissenschaft
;
Methodologie
;
Wissenschaftstheorie
;
Aufsatzsammlung
