Research Catalog

Title

Experience, reality, and scientific explanation : essays in honor of Merrilee and Wesley Salmon / edited by Maria Carla Galavotti, Alessandro Pagnini.

Publication

Boston, Mass. : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999.

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Additional Authors

• Salmon, Merrilee H.
• Salmon, Wesley C.
• Galavotti, Maria Carla.
• Pagnini, Alessandro.

Description

x, 248 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

• "The essays in this volume cover a wide array of topics related to the work of Merrilee and Wesley Salmon. They include scientific explanation, rationality, inference and induction, social behaviour, philosophy of physics and biology. Some of them are written with an eye on the history of the ideas concerned. The volume is completed by a long commentary on the papers written by Merrilee and Wesley Salmon."--BOOK JACKET.
• "The book is addressed to scholars and researchers in various fields, including philosophy of science, epistemology, philosophy of the natural and social sciences, history of contemporary philosophy, and inductive logic."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

The Western Ontario series in philosophy of science ; v. 61

Uniform Title

University of Western Ontario series in philosophy of science ; v. 61.

Subjects

• Science > Methodology > Congresses
• Salmon, Merrilee H
• Science > Philosophy > Congresses
• Salmon, Wesley C

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

• Foreword / Maria Carla Galavotti and Alessandro Pagnini -- The Reception of German Scientific Philosophy in North America: 1930-1962 / Robert E. Butts -- Immanenzgedanken and Knowledge as Unification. Scientific Philosophy and Philosophy of Science / Paolo Parrini -- Wesley Salmon on Explanation, Probability and Rationality / Maria Carla Galavotti -- Bayesian Confirmation / Roberto Festa -- The Great Illusion: Ignorance, Informational Cascades, and the Persistence of Unpopular Norms / Cristina Bicchieri and Yoshitaka Fukui -- On Hume's Experimental Atheism / Alessandro Pagnini -- It Happened At the Same Time: Salmon and the Conventionality of Distant Simultaneity / Martin Carrier -- On Various Realisms in Quantum Theory / Michael Stoltzner -- Wrongful Life: Logico-Empiricist Philosophy of Biology / Gereon Wolters -- Comments / Merrilee H. Salmon and C. Salmon. Logical Positivism, Logical Empiricism, and Thomas Kuhn. Comment on Robert Butts.
• Empiricism and the a Priori. Comment on Paolo Parrini. Probabilistic Explanation and Inference. Comment on Maria Carla Galavotti. Objective Bayesianism. Comment on Roberto Festa. On Choosing Acts We Do Not Prefer. Comment on Cristina Bicchieri and Yoshitaka Fukui. Hume and Bayes. Comment on Alessandro Pagnini. Conventionality of Simultaneity Revisited. Comment on Martin Carrier. Quantum Realisms. Comment on Michael Stoltzner. Nurturing Philosophy of Biology. Comment on Gereon Wolters -- Words of Appreciation / Wesley C. Salmon.

ISBN

0792354974 (hbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

98046943

OCLC

• 504547549
• ocn504547549

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries