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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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Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Book/Text | Use in library | Q175 .P5125 1993 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 399 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Midwest studies in philosophy ; v. 18
- Uniform Title
- Midwest studies in philosophy ; v. 18.
- Subject
- 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