| Description |
ix, 429 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 14
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Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 14.
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| Note |
Some of these papers were originally presented at an institute conducted by the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science from 1985 to 1987. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Seek and ye might find / Arthur L. Caplan -- The psychoanalytic enterprise in scientific perspective / Adolf Grünbaum -- On the nature of theories : a neurocomputational perspective / Paul M. Churchland -- Are economic kinds natural? / Alan Nelson -- Foundational physics and empiricist critique / Lawrence Sklar -- Theories as mere conventions / Henry E. Kyburg, Jr. -- Rationality and objectivity in science, or Tom Kuhn meets Tom Bayes / Wesley C. Salmon -- Bayesian problems of old evidence / Ellery Eells -- Fitting your theory to the facts : probably not such a bad thing after all / Colin Howson -- The value of knowledge / Brian Skyrms -- Demystifying underdetermination / Larry Laudan -- Dubbing and redubbing : the vulnerability of rigid designation / Thomas S. Kuhn -- Scientific revolutions and scientific rationality : the case of the elderly holdout / John Worrall. |
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Realism, approximate truth, and philosophical method / Richard Boyd -- Contrastive empiricism / Elliott Sober. |
| Subject |
Science -- Philosophy.
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Science -- Philosophy. |
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Science -- Methodology.
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Science -- Methodology. |
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Science -- Evaluation.
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Science -- Evaluation. |
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Science. |
| Added Author |
Savage, C. Wade.
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Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science.
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| ISBN |
0816618011 |
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