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Title Observation, experiment, and hypothesis in modern physical science / edited by Peter Achinstein, Owen Hannaway.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1985]
©1985

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Description x, 379 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Studies from the Johns Hopkins Center for the History and Philosophy of Science
Studies from the Johns Hopkins Center for the History and Philosophy of Science.
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents Modestly radical empiricism / Lawrence Sklar -- Observation and the scientific enterprise / Dudley Shapere -- Observations, explanatory power, and simplicity : toward a non-Humean account / Richard N. Boyd -- Probability and the art of judgment / R.C. Jeffrey -- Method of hypothesis : what is it supposed to do, and can it do it? / Peter Achinstein -- Idealizations and the testing of theories by experimentation / Ronald Laymon -- An interpretation of theory and experiment in quantum mechanics / Geoffrey Joseph -- Birth of the magnetic-resonance method / John S. Rogden -- Artificial disintegration and the Cambridge-Vienna controversy / Roger H. Stuewer -- Bubble chambers and the experimental workplace / Peter Galison.
Subject Physics -- Philosophy -- History.
Physics -- Philosophy.
History.
Physics -- Experiments -- History.
Physics -- Experiments.
Physical sciences -- Philosophy -- History.
Physical sciences -- Philosophy.
Physical sciences -- Methodology -- History.
Physical sciences -- Methodology.
Physical sciences.
Indexed Term Physics - Philosophical perspectives
Added Author Achinstein, Peter.
Hannaway, Owen.
Other Form: Online version: Observation, experiment, and hypothesis in modern physical science. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1985 (OCoLC)624560580
ISBN 0262010836
9780262010832