The philosophy of science /
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996. |
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| Description: | vi, 339 p. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxford readings in philosophy. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2435237 |
Table of Contents:
- I. The Natural Ontological Attitude / Arthur Fine
- II. NOA's Ark - Fine for Realism / Alan Musgrave
- III. Saving the Noumena / Lawrence Sklar
- IV. To Save the Phenomena / Bas C. van Fraassen
- V. Is the Best Good Enough? / Peter Lipton
- VI. A Confutation of Convergent Realism / Larry Laudan
- VII. Structural Realism: The Best of Both Worlds? / John Worrall
- VIII. What Science Aims to Do / Brian Ellis
- IX. Progress or Rationality? The Prospects for Normative Naturalism / Larry Laudan
- X. Realism, Approximate Truth, and Philosophical Method / Richard Boyd
- XI. Rationality and Objectivity in Science or Tom Kuhn Meets Tom Bayes / Wesley C. Salmon
- XII. Why I am not a Bayesian / Clark Glymour
- XIII. Fundamentalism vs the Patchwork of Laws / Nancy Cartwright.
