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Rationality and reality : conversations with Alan Musgrave
- Title
- Rationality and reality : conversations with Alan Musgrave / edited by Colin Cheyne and John Worrall.
- Publication
- Dordrecht : Springer, ©2006.
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- Description
- x, 337 pages; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Studies in history and philosophy of science ; v. 20
- Uniform Title
- Studies in history and philosophy of science (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ; v. 20.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Where does the burden of theory lie? / Gregory Currie -- Testimony, induction and reasonable belief / Colin Cheyne -- Theory-confirmation and history / John Worrall -- Critical rationalism and its failure to withstand critical scrutiny / Deborah G. Mayo -- Methodological rules, rationality, and truth / Volker Gadenne -- Why is it rational to believe scientific theories are true? / Howard Sankey -- Thinking about the ultimate argument for realism / Stathis Psillos -- The unseen world / Michael Redhead -- Why Alan Musgrave should become an essentialist / Alan Chalmers -- The metaphysics of realism and structural realism / Robert Nola -- Scientific realism and mathematical nominalism : a marriage made in hell / Mark Colyvan -- A methodological critique of the semantic conception of theories / Noretta Koertge -- A refutation of Peircean idealism / Graham Oddie -- Historiography as a hypothetico-deductive science : a criticism of methodological historism / Hans Albert -- Ptolemy's musical models for mind-maps and star-maps / Andrew Barker.
- ISBN
- 140204206X
- 9781402042065
- 1402042078
- 9781402042072
- 9048170729
- 9789048170722
- LCCN
- 2007451309
- 9781402042078
- OCLC
- ocm70764137
- 70764137
- SCSB-9481251
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library