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Collected works. Volume 1, Scientific rationality, the human condition, and 20th century cosmologies /
This volume collects Adolf Grünbaum's most discussed essays on scientific rationality. It covers the problem of what it takes for a theory to be called scientific and asks whether it is plausible to draw a clear distinction between science and non-science. It also delves into the debate betwee...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Collected works ;
v. 1 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Provenance of Chapters""; ""Preface and Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""PART ONE: SCIENTIFIC RATIONALITY""; ""1. Is Falsifiability the Touchstone of Scientific Rationality? Karl Popper Versus Inductivism (1976)""; ""2. The Degeneration of Popper�s Theory of Demarcation (1989)""; ""3. The Falsifiability of Theories: Total or Partial? A Contemporary Evaluation of the Duhem-Quine Thesis (1962)""; ""Appendix: A Letter from W. V. O. Quine of June 1, 1962""; ""PART TWO: DETERMINISM AND THE HUMAN CONDITION""; ""4. Free Will and Laws of Human Behavior (1972)""
- 5. Historical Determinism, Social Activism, and Predictions in the Social Sciences (1956)6. In Defense of Secular Humanism (1995)
- PART THREE: PHILOSOPHY OF THE 20TH-CENTURY PHYSICAL COSMOLOGIES AND THE CRITIQUE OF THEIR THEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATIONS
- 7. The Poverty of Theistic Cosmology (2004)
- 8. Theological Misinterpretations of Current Physical Cosmology (1998)
- 9. A New Critique of Theological Interpretations of Physical Cosmology (2000)
- 10. Pseudo-Creation of the Big Bang (1990)
- Bibliography
- Index
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