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Philosophy and archaeology /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, N.Y. :
Academic Press,
1982.
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| Colección: | Studies in archaeology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Philosophyand Archaeology; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Prefac; Acknowledgments; CHAPTORONE. Introduction; CHAPTER TWO. Laws in Archaeology; Introduction and Examples; Some Features of Laws: Generality and Truth; Determinism and Statistical Laws; Methodological Determinism; Differences between Laws of Physics and Laws of the Biologicaland Behavioral Sciences; Are There Any Laws of Archaeology?; The Importance of Laws for Archaeology; Are There Any Nontrivial Laws of Archaeology?; An Attempt to Employ Laws in an Archaeological Explanation; Conclusion
- CHAPTORTHREE. Confirmation in ArchaeologyIntroduction; The Logic of Confirmation; The Hypothetico-Deductive Method; Relative Confirmation and Absolute Confirmation; Inadequacy of the H-D Method as a Model of Confirmation in Archaeology; Prior Probabilities; An Alternative Pattern for Confirmation; Bayes' Method; Alternative Hypotheses; Conclusion; CHAPTORFOUR. Analogy and Functional Ascription; Introduction; Form and Function; Context; Analysis and Evaluation of Arguments from Analogy; An Attempt to Provide a General Method for Ascribing Functions; Criticism of the Attempt
- Ethnoarchaeology and AnalogyConclusion; CHAPTORFIVE. Functional Explanation; Introduction and Examples of Functional Explanations; Functional Explanations versus Functionalist Theoriesof Anthropology; The Consistency of Functional Explanations with Scientists' Understandingof Causality; Some Connections between Functional Explanations and Systems; Models of the Phenomena and Models, or Patterns, of Explanation; Difficulties in Fitting Functional Explanations with Some Standard Modelsof Scientific Explanation
- Some Inadequacies in the Standard Philosophical Models, or Patterns,of Scientific ExplanationAn Attempt to Preserve Causal Features in Functional Explanations; An Attempt to Preserve Structure and Causality; Conclusion; CHAPTORSIX. Structure of Archaeological Explanation; Introduction; Explaining the Character of a Faunal Assemblage; Structure of the Explanation; Deductive-Statistical Explanation-Explaining Regularities; Explaining the Occurrence of a Pattern; Problems with the High Probability Requirement; Causal Relevance and Statistical Relevance; Probabilistic Causes; Common Causes
- ConclusionCHAPTORSEVEN. Theory Building in Archaeology; Introduction; The Definitional Approach; Operational Definition; Systematics; Formal Theories; Mathematical Modeling; Constructing Theories by Borrowing; General Assumptions, Common-Sense Hypotheses, Induction,and Theories; Conclusion; Concluding Remarks; Bibliography; Author Index; Subject Index