| Description |
viii, 551 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 6
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Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 6.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and indexes. |
| Contents |
Confirmation and relevance / Wesley C. Salmon -- Carnap's empiricism / Richard C. Jeffrey -- Bayesian methods and the initial probabilities of theories / Mary Hesse -- Induction and empiricism: a bayesian-frequentist alternative / Grover Maxwell -- Shimony's a priori arguments for tempered personalism / Paul Teller -- Vindication: a reply to paul teller / Abner Shimony -- The epistemological roots of scientific knowledge / Ronald N. Giere -- The uses of probability and the choice of a reference class / Henry Kyburg -- Induction, rational acceptance, and minimally inconsistent sets / Keith Lehrer -- Confirmation and parsimony / George Schlesinger -- Comments on "confirmation and parsimony" / Paul Teller -- Rejoinder to professor teller / George Schlesinger -- The measure of all things / David Miller -- Names, random samples, and carnap / William H. Hanson -- Presuppositions of propensity theories of probability / Tom Settle -- Popper's propensity interpretation of probability and quantum mechanics / Jeffrey Bub -- The psychology of inference and expectation: some preliminary remarks / Walter Weimer -- Mach's principle and the laws of logic / Peter Caws -- Physical laws and the nature of philosophical reduction / Brian Skyrms -- Paradoxes of cosmological self-reference / Robert M. Anderson, Jr. |
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Verification (Logic)
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Verification (Logic) |
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Induction (Logic)
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Induction (Logic) |
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Probabilities.
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Probabilities. |
| Added Author |
Maxwell, Grover.
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Anderson, Robert M., 1943-
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Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science.
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| ISBN |
0816607362 |
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