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Philosophy of Science : a Contemporary Introduction.
Study Questions; Suggested Readings; 5 Causation, Inexact Laws and Statistical Probabilities; Overview; Causes as Explainers; Ceteris Paribus Laws; Statistical Laws and Probabilistic Causes; Explanation as Unification; Summary; Study Questions; Suggested Readings; 6 Laws and Explanations in Biology...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2011.
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| Edición: | 3rd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Philosophy of Science : |b a Contemporary Introduction. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Philosophy and Science; Overview; What Is Philosophy?; Philosophy and the Emergence of the Sciences; Science and the Divisions of Philosophy; What if There Are No Questions Left Over when Science Is Finished?; A Short History of Philosophy as the Philosophy of Science; Summary; Study Questions; Suggested Readings; 2 Why Is Philosophy of Science Important?; Overview; Scientific Questions and Questions about Science; Modern Science Has Implications for Philosophy; The Cultural Significance of Science. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Why Is Science the Only Feature of Western Culture Universally Adopted?Summary; Study Questions; Suggested Readings; 3 Scientific Explanation; Overview; Defining Scientific Explanation; The Role of Laws in Scientific Explanation; The Covering Law Model; Problems for the Covering Law Model; A Competing Conception of Scientific Explanation; Summary; Study Questions; Suggested Readings; 4 Why Do Laws Explain?; Overview; What Is a Law of Nature?; Counterfactual Support as a Symptom of the Necessity of Laws; Counterfactuals and Causation; Coming to Grips with Nomic Necessity; Denying the Obvious? | |
| 520 | |a Study Questions; Suggested Readings; 5 Causation, Inexact Laws and Statistical Probabilities; Overview; Causes as Explainers; Ceteris Paribus Laws; Statistical Laws and Probabilistic Causes; Explanation as Unification; Summary; Study Questions; Suggested Readings; 6 Laws and Explanations in Biology and the "Special Sciences"; Overview; Dissatisfaction with Causal Explanations; Proprietary Laws in the "Special Sciences"; Functional Laws and Biological Explanations; Explaining Purposes or Explaining Them Away?; From Intelligibility to Necessity; Summary; Study Questions. | ||
| 505 | 8 | |a Suggested Readings7 The Structure of Scientific Theories; Overview; How Do Theories Work? The Example of Newtonian Mechanics; Theories as Explainers: The Hypothetico-Deductive Model; The Philosophical Significance of Newtonian Mechanics and Theories; Summary; Study Questions; Suggested Readings; 8 Epistemic and Metaphysical Issues About Scientific Theories; Overview; Reduction, Replacement and the Progress of Science; The Problem of Theoretical Terms; Scientific Realism vs. Antirealism; Summary; Study Questions; Suggested Readings; 9 Theory Construction vs. Model Building; Overview. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Theories and ModelsSemantic vs. Syntactic Approaches to Theories and Models; A Case Study: Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection; Models and Theories in Evolutionary Biology; Summary; Study Questions; Suggested Readings; 10 Induction and Probability; Overview; The Problem of Induction; Statistics and Probability to the Rescue?; How Much Can Bayes' Theorem Really Help?; Summary; Study Questions; Suggested Readings; 11 Confirmation, Falsification, Underdetermination; Overview; Epistemological Problems of Hypothesis Testing; Induction as a Pseudo-Problem: Popper's Gambit; Underdetermination. | |
| 500 | |a Summary. | ||
| 520 | |a Any serious student attempting to better understand the nature, methods and justification of science will value the third edition of this popular text. Weaving together lucid explanations and clear analyses, the volume is as a much-used, thematically oriented introduction to the philosophy of science. Called the ""industry standard"" and ""essential reading"" by the journal, Teaching Philosophy, the book has been substantially revised and updated in its third edition to meet even better the needs of students and instructors and to reflect changes in the field. | ||
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