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Philosophy of Language and the Challenge to Scientific.
In this book Christopher Norris develops the case for scientific realism by tackling various adversary arguments from a range of anti-realist positions.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Philosophy of language and the realism issue; The expert, the neophyte, and the X-ray tube: Hanson on 'seeing aspects'; Philosophy of science as 'history of the present'; Hanson on Wittgenstein, conceptual change, and quantum discontinuity; Saving appearances: the 'linguistic turn' and post-empiricist philosophy of science; Quantum mechanics and the limits of empiricism: recent challenges to the orthodox theory; Twin-Earth revisited: modal realism and causal explanation; Notes; Index of names.