The nature of scientific theory
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The nature of scientific theory
（Garland series in readings in philosophy, . The philosophy of science : a collection of essays / series editor,
Garland, 2000
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: set ISBN 9780815326991
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First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Table of Contents
1. Explanation, Law and Cause 400pp: Hb: 0-8153-2700-5 2. The Nature of Scientific Theory 350pp: Hb: 0-8153-2701-3 3. Theory Reduction and Theory Change 350pp: Hb: 0-8153-2702-1 4. Probability and Confirmation 350pp: Hb: 0-8153-2703-X 5. Bayesian and Non-inductive Methods 350pp: Hb: 0-8153-3492-3 6. The Philosophy of Physics 350pp: Hb: 0-8153-3493-1
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ISBN 9780815327011
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About the Series Contemporary philosophy of science combines a general study from a philosophical perspective of the methods of science, with an inquiry, again from the philosophical point of view, into foundational issues that arise in the various special sciences. Methodological philosophy of science has deep connections with issues at the center of pure philosophy. It makes use of important results, for example, in traditional epistemology, metaphysics and the philosophy of language. It also connects in various ways with other disciplines such as the history and sociology of the sciences, with pure logic, and with such branches of mathematics as probability theory. These volumes are, for the most part, devoted to readings in the methodological aspects of the philosophy of science. One volume, however, takes up the philosophical issues in the foundations of a particularly important special science, that is the issues in the foundations of theories of contemporary physics. The methodological volumes cover a number of crucial general problem areas. The first volume takes up issues in the nature of scientific explanation, and the related issues of the nature of scientific law and of the casual relation among events. The second volume explores issues in the nature and structure of scientific theories. The third volume collects inquiries into the nature of scientific change, as one theory is replaced by another. Volume four is devoted to readings concerning the nature of probability and the nature and justification of inductive reasoning in science. The following volume continues the exploration of the issue of confirming and rejecting theories with a series of readings devoted to Bayesian methodologies in science and to the exploration of non-inductive strategies for rationalizing belief. Finally, volume six explores three major problem areas in the foundation of physics: the nature and rationale for physical theories of space and time; the interpretive problems arising out of the quantum theory; and some puzzles arising out of statistical mechanical theories of physics. The readings are selected and arranged to provide the user with systematic access to the most important contemporary themes in methodological philosophy of science and in philosophy of physics. The selections include many recent contributions to the field, as well as papers and extracts from books and journals otherwise not easily available.
Table of Contents
- A: Observation and Theory
- 1: The Ontological Status of Theoretical Entities
- 2: Observation
- B: Theoretical Structure
- 3: Empiricist Criteria Of Cognitive Significance: Problems and Changes
- 4: Two Dogmas of Empiricism
- 5: The Theoretician's Dilemma A Study in the Logic of Theory Construction
- 6: What is a Scientific Theory?
- 7: The Semantic Approach to Scientific Theories
- C: Realism and Anti-Realism, Underdetermination
- 8: To Save The Phenomena *
- 9: How to Define Theoretical Terms
- 10: Saving the Noumena *
- 11: The Natural Ontological Attitude
- 12: The Reality of Causes in a World of Instrumental Laws
- 13: The Conventionalist Thesis and its First Critics
- 14: The Framework of Philosophical Perplexity
- 15: Realism and Reason
- 16: On Empirically Equivalent Systems of the World
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