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Science, explanation, and rationality : aspects of the philosophy of Carl G. Hempel /
The late Carl Hempel was one of, if not the most influential philosophers of science in the 20th century. His work defined the problems and the methodology of the discipline for over thirty years. In this volume, thirteen highly distinguished philosophers, most of whom studied with Hempel, illuminat...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- Hempel and the Vienna circle / Michael Friedman
- Hempel's logicist philosophy of mathematics: background and sequel / Jaakko Hintikka
- Probable inference versus probable conclusions / Henry E. Kyburg, Jr.
- Hempel on the problem of induction / Risto Hilpinen
- The paradoxes of Hempelian explanation / James H. Fetzer
- Hempel's theory of statistical explanation / Ilkka Niiniluoto
- The symmetry thesis / Peter Achinstein
- Hempel and the problem of provisos / Frederick Suppe
- Explanation in history / William H. Dray
- Reasonable people / Philip Kitcher
- Analytic and synthetic understanding / Paul W. Humphreys
- The objectivity and the rationality of science / Robert Nozick
- Epilogue: the spirit of logical empiricism: Carl G. Hempel's role in twentieth-century philosophy of science / Wesley C. Salmon.