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Evidence, explanation, and realism : essays in the philosophy of science /

The essays in this volume address three fundamental questions in the philosophy of science: What is required for some fact to be evidence for a scientific hypothesis? What does it mean to say that a scientist or a theory explains a phenomenon? Should scientific theories that postulate "unobserv...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Achinstein, Peter
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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505 0 |a Introduction -- Part I: Evidence and induction -- Concepts of evidence -- Why philosophical theories of evidence are (and ought to be) ignored by scientists -- The grue paradox -- The war on induction -- Waves and the scientific method -- Part II: Explanation -- An illocutionary theory of explanation -- The pragmatic character of explanation -- Can there be a model of explanation? -- Explanation vs. prediction : which carries more weight? -- Function statements -- Part III: Realism, molecules, and electrons -- Is there a valid experimental argument for scientific realism? -- Jean Perrin and molecular reality -- The problem of theoretical terms -- What to do if you want to defend a theory you can't prove : a method of physical speculation -- Who really discovered the electron? 
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