Contemporary debates in philosophy of science /
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| Imprint: | Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004. |
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| Description: | xiii, 348 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Contemporary debates in philosophy ; 2 |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5160126 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: What is the Philosophy of Science?
- Do Thought Experiments Transcend Empiricism?
- 1. Why Thought Experiments Transcend Empiricism / James Robert Brown
- 2. Why Thought Experiments do not Transcend Empiricism / John D. Norton
- Does Probability Capture the Logic of Scientific Confirmation or Justification?
- 3. Probability Captures the Logic of Scientific Confirmation / Patrick Maher
- 4. Why Probability does not Capture the Logic of Scientific Justification / Kevin T. Kelly and Clark Glymour
- Can a Theory's Predictive Success Warrant Belief in the Unobservable Entities it Postulates?
- 5. A Theory's Predictive Success can Warrant Belief in the Unobservable Entities it Postulates / Jarrett Leplin
- 6. A Theory's Predictive Success does not Warrant Belief in the Unobservable Entities in Postulates / Andre Kukla and Joel Walmsley
- Are There Laws in the Social Sciences?
- 7. There are no Laws of the Social Sciences / John T. Roberts
- 8. There are Laws in the Social Sciences / Harold Kincaid
- Are Causes Physically Connected to their Effects?
- 9. Causes are Physically Connected to their Effects: Why Preventers and Omissions are not Causes / Phil Dowe
- 10. Causes need not be Physically Connected to their Effects: The Case for Negative Causation / Jonathan Schaffer
- Is there a Puzzle about the Low-Entropy Past?
- 11. On the Origins of the Arrow of Time: Why there is Still a Puzzle about the Low-Entropy Past / Huw Price
- 12. There is no Puzzle about the Low-Entropy Past / Craig Callender
- Do Genes Encode Information about Phenotypic Traits?
- 13. Genes Encode Information for Phenotypic Traits / Sahotra Sarkar
- 14. Genes do not Encode Information for Phenotypic Traits / Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Is the Mind a System of Modules Shaped by Natural Selection?
- 15. The Mind is a System of Modules Shaped by Natural Selection / Peter Carruthers
- 16. The Mind is not (just) a System of Modules Shaped (just) by Natural Selection / James Woodward and Fiona Cowie.
