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Reality and rationality
- Title
- Reality and rationality / Wesley C. Salmon ; edited by Phil Dowe and Merrilee H. Salmon.
- Author
- Salmon, Wesley C.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xi, 285 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-276) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 05-11402
- ISBN
- 0195177843 (alk. paper)
- 0195181956 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2004050051
- OCLC
- 55124888
- Author
- Salmon, Wesley C.
- Title
- Reality and rationality / Wesley C. Salmon ; edited by Phil Dowe and Merrilee H. Salmon.
- Imprint
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-276) and index.
- Added Author
- Dowe, Phil.Salmon, Merrilee H.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 05-11402