Images of science : essays on realism and empiricism, with a reply from Bas C. van Fraassen

Author(s)

• Van Fraassen, Bastiaan C.
• Churchland, Paul M.
• Hooker, C. A. (Clifford Alan)

Bibliographic Information

Images of science : essays on realism and empiricism, with a reply from Bas C. van Fraassen

edited by Paul M. Churchland and Clifford A. Hooker

（Science and its conceptual foundations）

University of Chicago Press, 1985

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographies

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

ISBN 9780226106533

Description

Ten papers by prominent philosophers of science which challenge van Fraassen's thesis from a variety of realist perspectives. Together with van Fraassen's extensive reply, the articles provide a comprehensive picture of the current debate in philosophy of science between realists and anti-realists.

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780226106540

Description

"Churchland and Hooker have collected ten papers by prominent philosophers of science which challenge van Fraassen's thesis from a variety of realist perspectives. Together with van Fraassen's extensive reply . . . these articles provide a comprehensive picture of the current debate in philosophy of science between realists and anti-realists."-Jeffrey Bub and David MacCallum, Foundations of Physics Letters

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Details

• NCID: BA01532370
• ISBN:
  • 0226106535
  • 9780226106540
• LCCN: 85001128
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Chicago
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 309 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : Q175
  • DC19 : 501
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Science -- Philosophy
  • LCSH : Realism
  • LCSH : Empiricism
  • LCSH : Science -- History
  • LCSH : Van Fraassen, Bastiaan C., 1941-
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA0051972X