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Reality and rationality /
This volume of articles (most published, some new) is a follow-up to the late Wesley C. Salmon's widely read collection "Causality And Explanation" (OUP 1998). It contains both published and unpublished articles, and focuses on two related areas of inquiry: first, is science a rationa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Realism and empiricism: the key question
- Scientific realism in the empiricist tradition
- An empiricist argument for realism
- Plausibility arguments in science
- Discovery and justification
- Rationality and objectivity in science
- Revisions of scientific convictions
- Dynamic rationality
- Hume's arguments on cosmology and design
- The "almost-deduction" theory
- The "partial-entailment" theory
- Confirmation and relevance.