| Description |
xix, 384 pages ; 24 cm. |
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Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 5
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Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 5.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies. |
| Contents |
Beyond peaceful coexistence / Herbert Feigl -- The history and philosophy of science: a taxonomy / Ernan McMullin -- Bayes's theorem and the history of science / Wesley C. Salmon -- Inference to scientific laws / Peter Achinstein -- Science: has its present past a future? / Arnold Thackray -- Hermeticism and historiography: an apology for the internal history of science / Mary Hesse -- Was copernicus a hermetist? / Edward Rosen -- Philosophy of science: a subject with a great past / Paul K. Feyerabend -- Mach's philosophical use of the history of science / Erwin N. Hiebert -- History of science and criteria of choice / Gerd Buchdahl -- Non-einsteinian interpretations of the photoelectric effect / Roger H. Stuewer -- On the notion of field in newton, maxwell, and beyond / Howard Stein -- Outlines of a logic of comparative theory evaluation with special attention to pre- and post-relativistic electrodynamics / Kenneth F. Schaffner |
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Science -- History.
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Science. |
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History. |
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Science -- Philosophy. |
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