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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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399 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Midwest studies in philosophy ; v. 18

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Midwest studies in philosophy ; v. 18.

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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.

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93008496

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Princeton University Library