Fact and method : explanation, confirmation and reality in the natural and the social sciences /

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In this bold work, of broad scope and rich erudition, Richard Miller sets out to reorient the philosophy of science. By questioning both positivism and its leading critics, he develops new solutions to the most urgent problems about justification, explanation, and truth. Using a wealth of examples f...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Miller, Richard W., 1945- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1987]
Subjects:
Science > Philosophy.
Causation.
Realism.
Positivism.
Réalisme.
Positivisme.
positivism.
PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology
Aristotelian science.
Bayesianism.
Bayes' Theorem.
Bernoulli process.
Bertrand's paradox.
Boyle-Charles law.
Copenhagen interpretation.
Hamiltonian operator.
King Lear.
Marxist social theory.
Nazi seizure of power.
acceptance.
anomalies.
antirealism.
approximate truth.
atomic theory.
caloric.
cat paradox.
causal checklists.
chemistry.
comparison.
counterfactual conditionals.
covering-law model.
de Broglie equation.
determinism.
disease theory.
dogmatism.
dutch book.
economics.
eigenstate.
electrodynamics.
empathy.
entelechies.
entrenchment.
explanation sketch.
fictionalism.
frameworks.
functional explanation.
hermeneutics.
historical explanation.
hypothetico-deductive confirmation.
likelihood.
literary theory.
lottery paradox.
molecular-kinetic theory.
objective interests.
phlogiston.
pragmatics of explanation.
probability amplitude.
projectibility.
renormalization.
separability.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION. Replacing Positivism
  • PART ONE: Explanation
  • CHAPTER ONE. Explanation: The Covering-Law Model
  • CHAPTER TWO. The Nature of Explanation
  • CHAPTER THREE. Applications
  • PART TWO: Confirmation
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Confirmation as Causal Comparison
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Deductivism: Plain and with Simplicity
  • CHAPTER SIX. The New Positivism
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Anti-Bayes
  • PART THREE: Realism
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. The Issue of Realism
  • CHAPTER NINE. Learning from Anti-Realism
  • CHAPTER TEN. A Defense of Realism
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN. Quantum Reality
  • INDEX

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