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catalog contributor b3050855.
catalog contributor b3050856.
catalog contributor b3050857.
catalog created "c1991.".
catalog date "1991".
catalog date "c1991.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "c1991.".
catalog description "Confirmation, semantics, and the interpretation of scientific theories. Introductory essay / Richard Boyd -- Positivism and realism -- Mortiz Schlick -- The operational character of scientific concepts / Percy Bridgman -- Empiricist criteria of cognitive significance: problems and changes / Carl Hempel -- Empiricism, semantics, and ontology / Rudolf Carnap -- Selections from the Logic of Scientific Discovery. A. Scientific Method ; B. Falsificationism versus conventionalism ; C. The Empirical basis / Karl Popper -- The 'Corroboration" of theories / Hilary Putname -- Scientific revolutions. A. Thessential tension ; B. The nature and necessity of scientific revolutions / Thomas Kuhn -- Natural kinds / W.V.O. Quine -- Explanation and reference / Hilary Putnam -- To save the phenomena / Bas van Fraassen -- On the current status of scientific realism / Richard Boyd -- A confutation of convergent realism / Larry Laudan -- Experimentation and scientific realism / Ian Hacking -- ".
catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [783]-787) and indexes.".
catalog description "Is the moon there when nobody looks? Reality and the quantum theory / N. David Mermin -- Metaphysical problems in the foundations of quantum mechanics / Abner Shimony -- Is scientific realism compatible with quantum physics? / Arthur Fine -- The philosophy of biology. Introductory essay / Philip Gasper -- 1953 and all that: a tale of two sciences / Philip Kitcher -- Artifact, cause, and genic selection / Elliott Sober and Richard Lewontin -- The return of the gene / Kim Sterelny and Philip Kitcher -- The Philosophy of psychology. Introductory Essay / J.D. Trout -- Eliminative materialism and the propositional attitudes / Paul Churchland -- Three kinds of intentional psychology -- Methodologial solipsism considered as a research strategy in cognitive psychology / Jerry Fodor -- Narrow taxonomy and wide functionalism / Patricia Kitcher -- Individualism and psychology / Tyler Burge -- The philosophy of social science . Introductory essay / Philip Gasper -- ".
catalog description "The natural ontological attitude / ARthur fine -- Feminism and science / Evelyn Fox Keller -- Causation and explanation. Introductory Essay / Philip Gasper -- Laws and their role in scientific explanation / Carl Hempel -- The pragmatics of explanation / Bas van Fraassen -- Explanatory unification / Philip Kitcher -- Obersvations, explanatory power, and simplicity: toward a non-humean account / Richard Boyd -- The reality of causes in a world of instrumental laws / Nancy Cartwright -- Reductionism and the unity of science. Introductory essay / J.d. Trout -- Logical foundations of the unity of science / Rudolf Carnap -- Unity of science as a working hypothesis / Paul Oppenheim and Hilary Putnam -- Special sciences / Jerry Fodor -- Reductionism / Alan Garfinkel -- the philosophy of physics. Introductory Essay / J.d. Trout -- Selections from The Philosophy of space and Time / Hans Reichenbach -- The epistemology of geometry / Clark Glymour -- ".
catalog description "Value-judgments in social science / Max Weber -- Methodological individualism and social tendencies / John Watkins -- Fact and method in the social sciences / Richard W. Miller -- Marx and the objectivity of sciens / Peter Railton.".
catalog extent "xvi, 800 p. :".
catalog identifier "0262023156".
catalog identifier "0262521563 (pbk.)".
catalog issued "1991".
catalog issued "c1991.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,".
catalog subject "121 20".
catalog subject "Q175.3 .P47 1991".
catalog subject "Science Philosophy.".
catalog subject "Social sciences Philosophy.".
catalog tableOfContents "Confirmation, semantics, and the interpretation of scientific theories. Introductory essay / Richard Boyd -- Positivism and realism -- Mortiz Schlick -- The operational character of scientific concepts / Percy Bridgman -- Empiricist criteria of cognitive significance: problems and changes / Carl Hempel -- Empiricism, semantics, and ontology / Rudolf Carnap -- Selections from the Logic of Scientific Discovery. A. Scientific Method ; B. Falsificationism versus conventionalism ; C. The Empirical basis / Karl Popper -- The 'Corroboration" of theories / Hilary Putname -- Scientific revolutions. A. Thessential tension ; B. The nature and necessity of scientific revolutions / Thomas Kuhn -- Natural kinds / W.V.O. Quine -- Explanation and reference / Hilary Putnam -- To save the phenomena / Bas van Fraassen -- On the current status of scientific realism / Richard Boyd -- A confutation of convergent realism / Larry Laudan -- Experimentation and scientific realism / Ian Hacking -- ".
catalog tableOfContents "Is the moon there when nobody looks? Reality and the quantum theory / N. David Mermin -- Metaphysical problems in the foundations of quantum mechanics / Abner Shimony -- Is scientific realism compatible with quantum physics? / Arthur Fine -- The philosophy of biology. Introductory essay / Philip Gasper -- 1953 and all that: a tale of two sciences / Philip Kitcher -- Artifact, cause, and genic selection / Elliott Sober and Richard Lewontin -- The return of the gene / Kim Sterelny and Philip Kitcher -- The Philosophy of psychology. Introductory Essay / J.D. Trout -- Eliminative materialism and the propositional attitudes / Paul Churchland -- Three kinds of intentional psychology -- Methodologial solipsism considered as a research strategy in cognitive psychology / Jerry Fodor -- Narrow taxonomy and wide functionalism / Patricia Kitcher -- Individualism and psychology / Tyler Burge -- The philosophy of social science . Introductory essay / Philip Gasper -- ".
catalog tableOfContents "The natural ontological attitude / ARthur fine -- Feminism and science / Evelyn Fox Keller -- Causation and explanation. Introductory Essay / Philip Gasper -- Laws and their role in scientific explanation / Carl Hempel -- The pragmatics of explanation / Bas van Fraassen -- Explanatory unification / Philip Kitcher -- Obersvations, explanatory power, and simplicity: toward a non-humean account / Richard Boyd -- The reality of causes in a world of instrumental laws / Nancy Cartwright -- Reductionism and the unity of science. Introductory essay / J.d. Trout -- Logical foundations of the unity of science / Rudolf Carnap -- Unity of science as a working hypothesis / Paul Oppenheim and Hilary Putnam -- Special sciences / Jerry Fodor -- Reductionism / Alan Garfinkel -- the philosophy of physics. Introductory Essay / J.d. Trout -- Selections from The Philosophy of space and Time / Hans Reichenbach -- The epistemology of geometry / Clark Glymour -- ".
catalog tableOfContents "Value-judgments in social science / Max Weber -- Methodological individualism and social tendencies / John Watkins -- Fact and method in the social sciences / Richard W. Miller -- Marx and the objectivity of sciens / Peter Railton.".
catalog title "The philosophy of science / edited by Richard Boyd, Philip Gasper, and J.D. Trout.".
catalog type "text".