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Inference, explanation, and other frustrations [world wide web resource] : essays in the philosophy of science / edited by John Earman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Pittsburgh series in philosophy and history of science ; v. 14Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1992.Description: Web resource (xi, 301 p.)ISBN:
  • 0520075773 (alk. paper)
  • 0520080440 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780520075771
Subject(s): Online resources: A digital reproduction available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program.
Contents:
Thoroughly modern meno / Clark Glymour and Kevin Kelly -- The concept of induction in the light of the interrogative approach to inquiry / Jaakko Hintikka -- Aristotelian natures and the modern experimental method / Nancy Cartwright -- Genetic inference : a reconsideration of David Hume's empiricism / Barbara D. Massey and Gerald J. Massey -- Philosophy and the exact sciences : logical positivism as a case study / Michael Friedman -- Language and interpretation : philosophical reflections and empirical inquiry / Noam Chomsky -- Constructivism, realism, and philosophical method / Richard Boyd -- Do we need a hierarchical model of science? / Diderik Batens -- Theories of theories : a view from cognitive science / Richard E. Grandy.
Procedural syntax for theory elements / Joseph D. Sneed -- Why functionalism didn't work / Hilary Putnam -- Physicalism / Hartry Field.
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"Papers delivered in the annual lecture series (1986-1989) sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh's Center for the Philosophy of Science"--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Thoroughly modern meno / Clark Glymour and Kevin Kelly -- The concept of induction in the light of the interrogative approach to inquiry / Jaakko Hintikka -- Aristotelian natures and the modern experimental method / Nancy Cartwright -- Genetic inference : a reconsideration of David Hume's empiricism / Barbara D. Massey and Gerald J. Massey -- Philosophy and the exact sciences : logical positivism as a case study / Michael Friedman -- Language and interpretation : philosophical reflections and empirical inquiry / Noam Chomsky -- Constructivism, realism, and philosophical method / Richard Boyd -- Do we need a hierarchical model of science? / Diderik Batens -- Theories of theories : a view from cognitive science / Richard E. Grandy.

Procedural syntax for theory elements / Joseph D. Sneed -- Why functionalism didn't work / Hilary Putnam -- Physicalism / Hartry Field.

A digital reproduction available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program.

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