Philosophy of science
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Philosophy of science
（Midwest studies in philosophy, v. 18）
University of Notre Dame Press, c1993
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Hokkaido University, Library, Graduate School of Science, Faculty of Science and School of Science研究室
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Description
The 21 essays collected in this volume of "Midwest Studies in Philosophy" question and debate the primary assumptions of science. These are its conception of an orderly universe; its ability to define; and its ability to explain. The contributors approach these topics from varying perspectives, including the historic development of our understanding of the scientific enterprise; the controversy of opposing paradigms; and the challenges raised by quantum mechanics.
Table of Contents
- Fictionalism, Arthur Fine
- Undetermination, Realism and Reason, John Earman
- Epistemology for Empiricists, Elliott Sober
- Wittgensteinian Bayesianism, Paul Horwich
- Carnapian Inductive Logic for a Value Continuum, Brian Skyrms
- How to Defend a Theory Without Testing It - Niels Bohr and the "Logic of Pursuit", Peter Achinstein
- Empiricism, Objectivity and Explantion, Elisabeth A. Lloyd and Carl G. Anderson
- Theoretical Explanation, R.I.G. Hughes
- Selective Scientific Realism, Constructive Empiricism and the Unification of Theories, Steven Savitt
- Essentially General Predicates, Peter Railton
- On Philosophy and Natural Philosophy in the 17th Century, Howard Stein
- There's a Hole and a Bucket, Dear Leibniz, Mark Wilson
- The Transcendental Character of Determinism, Patrick Suppes
- Idealisation and Explanation - a Case Study from Statistical Mechanics, Lawrence Sklar
- The Fabric of Space - Intrinsic versus Extrinsic Distance Relations, Phillip Bricker
- Against Experimental Metaphysics, Martin R. Jones and Robert K. Clifton
- Scientific Realism and Quantum Mechanical Realism, Linda Wessels
- Vacuum Concepts, Potentia and the Quantum Field Theoretic Vacuum Explained for All, Paul Teller
- Genic Selection, Molecular Biology and Biological Instrumentalism, Alex Rosenberg
- Could There Be a Science of Economics?, John Dupre
- Function and Design, Philip Kitcher.
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