Logic, laws, & life : some philosophical complications
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Logic, laws, & life : some philosophical complications
(University of Pittsburgh series in the philosophy of science, v. 6)
University of Pittsburgh Press, c1977
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Hokkaido University, Library, Graduate School of Science, Faculty of Science and School of Science図書
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Essays which have grown out of lectures presented at the annual lecture series conducted by the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Contents of Works
- Introduction / R.G. Colodny
- The shifting foundations of statistics / L.J. Savage
- Testing versus information models of statistical inference / R.N. Griere
- Consilience of inductions and the problem of conceptual change in science / R.E. Butts
- Is biology different from physics? / M. Ruse
- Teleology and selective processes / P. Machamer
- Reduction, reductionism, values, and progress in the biomedical sciences / K.F. Schaffner
- Psychology and scientific inquiry / H. Cantril
- Is observation theory-laden? / A. Shimony
- Biology without consciousness / R. Efron
- Psychology and societal facts / M. Mandelbaum