| Description |
viii, 484 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 10
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Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 10.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Glymour's bootstrapping theory of confirmation -- On testing and evidence / Clark Glymour -- Theory comparison and relevant evidence / Bas C. van Fraassen -- Bootstrapping without bootstraps / Azon Edidin -- Explanations of irrelevance / Paul Horwich -- The bayesian perspective and the problem of old evidence -- Why glymour is a Bayesian / Roger Rosenkrantz -- Old evidence and logical omniscience in Bayesian confirmation theory / Daniel Garber -- Bayesianism with a human face / Richard Jeffrey -- Three ways to give a probability assignment a memory / Brian Skyrms -- Evidence and explanation -- Glymour on evidence and explanation / Bas C. van Fraassen -- Historical case studies -- Newton's demonstration of universal gravitation and philosophical theories of confirmation / Ronald Laymon -- Realism and instrumentalism in pre-newtonian astronomy / Michael R. Gardner -- Some alternative views on testing theories -- Testing theoretical hypotheses / Ronald N. Giere -- The deductive model: does it have instances? / Henry Kyburg -- Testing particular theories -- Retrospective vs. prospective testing of aetiological hypotheses in freudian theory / Adolf Grnbaum -- Subjectivitv in psychoanalytic inference: the nagging persistence of wilhem fliess's achensee question / Paul E. Meehl -- Consistency tests in estimating the completeness of the fossil record: a neopopperian approach to statistical paleontology / Paul E. Meehl |
| Subject |
Science -- Philosophy.
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Science -- Philosophy. |
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Theory (Philosophy)
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Theory (Philosophy) |
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Evidence.
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Evidence. |
| Added Author |
Earman, John.
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| ISBN |
0816611580 : $39.50 |
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0816611599 paperback $16.95 |
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