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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.