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Philosophy of science

Title
Philosophy of science / editors, Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling, Jr., Howard K. Wettstein.
Publication
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, ©1993.

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Additional Authors
  • French, Peter A.
  • Uehling, Theodore Edward.
  • Wettstein, Howard K.
Description
399 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Midwest studies in philosophy ; v. 18
Uniform Title
Midwest studies in philosophy ; v. 18.
Subject
  • Science > Philosophy
  • Science > Experiments
  • Determinism (Philosophy)
  • Biology > Philosophy
  • Economics > Philosophy
  • determinism
  • 08.35 philosophy of science
  • Science > Experiments
  • Economics > Philosophy
  • Biology > Philosophy
  • Science > Philosophy
  • Wetenschapsfilosofie
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
  • Fictionalism / Arthur Fine -- Underdetermination, realism, and reason / John Earman -- Epistemology for empiricists / Elliott Sober -- Wittgensteinian Bayesianism / Paul Horwich -- Carnapian inductive logic for a value continuum / Brian Skyrms -- How to defend a theory without testing it : Niels Bohr and the "logic of pursuit" / Peter Achinstein -- Empiricism, objectivity, and explanation / Elisabeth A. Lloyd and Carl G. Anderson -- Theoretical explanation / R.I.G. Hughes -- Selective scientific realism, constructive empiricism, and the unification of theories / Steven Savitt -- Essentially general predicates / Peter Railton -- On philosophy and natural philosophy in the seventeenth century / Howard Stein -- There's a hole and a bucket, dear Leibniz / Mark Wilson.
  • The transcendental character of determinism / Patrick Suppes -- Idealization and explanation : a case study from statistical mechanics / Lawrence Sklar -- The fabric of space : intrinsic vs extrinsic distance relations / Philip Bricker -- Against experimental metaphysics / Martin R. Jones and Robert K. Clifton -- Scientific realism and quantum mechanical realism / Linda Wessels -- Vacuum concepts, potentia, and the quantum field theoretic vacuum explained for all / Paul Teller -- Genic selection, molecular biology, and biological instrumentalism / Alex Rosenberg -- Could there be a science of economics? / John Dupré -- Function and design / Philip Kitcher.
ISBN
  • 026801406X
  • 9780268014063
  • 0268014078
  • 9780268014070
LCCN
93008496
OCLC
  • ocm28183777
  • 28183777
  • SCSB-2021487
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library