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The 15 essays in this volume by the distinguished philosopher of science Peter Achinstein address three fundamental questions: What is required for a fact to be evidence for a scientific hypothesis? What is involved in giving a scientific explanation of a phenomenon? And should scientific theories be construed as aiming to correctly describe the entire world or only the observable parts of it?


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  • Author : Peter Achinstein
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Total Pages : 344 pages
  • ISBN : 0199735255
  • PDF File Size : 42,7 Mb
  • Language : English
  • Rating : 4/5 from 21 reviews

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Evidence, Explanation, and Realism

Evidence, Explanation, and Realism
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • File Size : 46,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 28 May 2010
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The 15 essays in this volume by the distinguished philosopher of science Peter Achinstein address three fundamental questions: What is required for a fact to be evidence for a scientific hypothesis?

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Resisting Scientific Realism
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  • Release Date : 01 November 2018
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Provides a spirited defence of anti-realism in philosophy of science. Shows the historical evidence and logical challenges facing scientific realism.

The Book of Evidence

The Book of Evidence
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
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  • Release Date : 20 September 2001
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What is required for something to be evidence for a hypothesis? In this fascinating, elegantly written work, distinguished philosopher of science Peter Achinstein explores this question, rejecting typical philosophical and

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This book exhibits deep philosophical quandaries and intricacies of the historical development of science lying behind a simple and fundamental item of common sense in modern science, namely the composition

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  • Release Date : 07 April 2006
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In this important new book, Ray Pawson examines the recent spread of evidence-based policy making across the Western world. Few major public initiatives are mounted these days in the absence

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  • Publisher : JHU Press
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  • Release Date : 01 June 2005
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Physicists think they have discovered the top quark. Biologists believe in evolution. But what precisely constitutes evidence for such claims, and why? Scientists often disagree with one another over whether

Contemporary Scientific Realism

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  • Release Date : 02 June 2024
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Scientific realists claim we can justifiably believe that science is getting at the truth. However, they have faced historical challenges: various episodes across history appear to demonstrate that even strongly