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- catalog abstract ""Knowledge and Reference in Empirical Science is a study of the bounds between science and language: In what sense, and of what, does science provide knowledge? Is it to be taken literally? Is science an instrument only distantly related to what's real? Can the language of science be used to adequately describe the truth?"--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12020993.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Knowledge and Reference in Empirical Science is a study of the bounds between science and language: In what sense, and of what, does science provide knowledge? Is it to be taken literally? Is science an instrument only distantly related to what's real? Can the language of science be used to adequately describe the truth?"--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-252) and index.".
- catalog description "Procedural foundationalism -- Program and scope -- Reductionism, confirmation holism, theoretical deductivism -- Some observations on reductionism and the "autonomy" of the special sciences -- Some comments on the philosophical implications of the use of idealizations in science -- Gross regularities -- Procedures and perceptual procedures -- Shedding perceptual procedures -- Two-tiered coherentism -- Evidential centrality -- Ob-similar extensions and ob*-similar extensions -- Ob-similarity, observational regularities, reasons for incommensurability -- Kuhnian considerations and the accumulation of knowledge -- Perceptual impermeability and biotechnical incommensurability -- Methodological observations about epistemology, scepticism and truth -- Permuting reference -- Formal considerations -- Quine's version -- Field's version -- Putnam's version -- The ontological status of causality -- Some puzzles about reference -- The transcendence of reference -- Troubles for naive naturalism -- The elusivity of reference -- Causality and reference: an analysis -- Transcending procedures -- Transcendence and its discontents.".
- catalog extent "xi, 259 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0415223830".
- catalog isPartOf "International library of philosophy".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Routledge,".
- catalog subject "501 21".
- catalog subject "Knowledge, Theory of.".
- catalog subject "Q175 .A995 2000".
- catalog subject "Science Methodology.".
- catalog subject "Science Philosophy.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Procedural foundationalism -- Program and scope -- Reductionism, confirmation holism, theoretical deductivism -- Some observations on reductionism and the "autonomy" of the special sciences -- Some comments on the philosophical implications of the use of idealizations in science -- Gross regularities -- Procedures and perceptual procedures -- Shedding perceptual procedures -- Two-tiered coherentism -- Evidential centrality -- Ob-similar extensions and ob*-similar extensions -- Ob-similarity, observational regularities, reasons for incommensurability -- Kuhnian considerations and the accumulation of knowledge -- Perceptual impermeability and biotechnical incommensurability -- Methodological observations about epistemology, scepticism and truth -- Permuting reference -- Formal considerations -- Quine's version -- Field's version -- Putnam's version -- The ontological status of causality -- Some puzzles about reference -- The transcendence of reference -- Troubles for naive naturalism -- The elusivity of reference -- Causality and reference: an analysis -- Transcending procedures -- Transcendence and its discontents.".
- catalog title "Knowledge and reference in empirical science / Jody Azzouni.".
- catalog type "text".