Scientific theories
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Scientific theories
（Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science, v. 14）
University of Minnesota Press, c1990
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Some of these papers were originally presented at an institute conducted by the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science from 1985 to 1987
Includes bibliographies and indexes
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内容説明
The present volume is the second of two in which a number of scholars examine the question: is a new consensus emerging in the philosophy of science? The first volume, "Scientific Explanation", applied the question to that particular discipline. The present volume evaluates, analyzes and criticizes the central themes of current mainstream philosophy of science aiming to build a bridge between the old and the new schools of thought. The book is divided into three sections. The first deals with issues arising from the special sciences of biomedicine, economics, neuropsychology, psychoanalysis and physics. The middle section discusses issues in confirmation, such as holistic methods and criteria for theory choice. The final section explores the semantic incommensurability of theories, under-determination, the rationality of theory acceptance, historical arguments for realism, and improvements in empiricism.
目次
- Seek and ye might find, Arthur Caplan
- the psychoanalytic enterprise in scientific perspectivve, Adolf Grunbaum
- on the nature of theories - a neurocomputational perspective, Paul Churchland
- are economic kinds natural?, Alan Nelson
- foundation physics and empiricist critique, Lawrence Sklar
- theories as mere conventions, Henry Kyburg
- rationality and objectivity in science or Tom Kuhn Meets Tom Bayes, Wesley Salmon
- problems of old evidence, Ellery Eells
- fitting your theory to the facts - probably not such a bad thing after all, Colin Howson
- the value of knowledge, Brian Skyrms
- demystifying underdetermination, Larry Laudan
- dubbing and redubbing - the vulnerability of rigid designation, Thomas Kuhn
- scientific revolutions and scientific rationality - the case of the elderly hold-out, John Worrall
- realism, approximate truth, and philosophical method, Richard Boyd
- contrastive empiricism, Elliott Sober.
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