Reality and rationality /
This volume of articles (most published, some new) is a follow-up to the late Wesley C. Salmon's widely read collection "Causality And Explanation" (OUP 1998). It contains both published and unpublished articles, and focuses on two related areas of inquiry: first, is science a rationa...
| Основен автор: | Salmon, Wesley C. |
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| Други автори: | Dowe, Phil., Salmon, Merrilee H. |
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=151480 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Reality and rationality. |
Съдържание:
- Realism and empiricism: the key question
- Scientific realism in the empiricist tradition
- An empiricist argument for realism
- Plausibility arguments in science
- Discovery and justification
- Rationality and objectivity in science
- Revisions of scientific convictions
- Dynamic rationality
- Hume's arguments on cosmology and design
- The "almost-deduction" theory
- The "partial-entailment" theory
- Confirmation and relevance.