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Titolo: | The nature of scientific theory / edited with an introduction by Lawrence Sklar. |
Descrizione fisica: | X, 378 p. |
Contiene: | Indice: Introduction. Pt. 1. Observation and theory: 1. The ontological status of theoretical entities / Grover Maxwell 2. Observation / Norwood Russell Hanson. Pt. 2. Theoretical structure: 1. Empiricist criteria of cognitive significance: problems and changes / Carl G. Hempel 2. Two dogmas of empiricism / Willard van Orman Quine 3. The theoretician's dilemma: a study in the logic of theory construction / Carl G. Hempel 4. What is a scientific theory? / Patrick Suppes 5. The semantic approach to scientific theories / Bas C. van Fraassen. Pt. 3. Realism and anti-realism, underdetermination: 1. To save the phenomena / Bas C. van Fraassen 2. How to define theoretical terms / David Lewis 3. Saving the noumena / Lawrence Sklar 4. The natural ontological attitude / Arthur Fine 5. The reality of causes in a world of instrumental laws / Nancy Cartwright 6. The conventionalist thesis and its first critics / Lawrence Sklar 7. The framework of philosophical perplexity / Lawrence Sklar 8. Realism and reason / Hilary Putnam 9. On empirically equivalent systems of the world / W.V. Quine 10. Equivalent theories and irresoluble rivalry and two indeterminacies / W.V. Quine. Acknowledgments |
ISBN: | 0815327013 |
In: | Philosophy of science. New York : Garland, 2000. 2 |
Altri autori: | Sklar, Lawrence.
Maxwell, Grover. Hanson, Norwood Russell, 1924-1967. Hempel, Carl Gustav, 1905-1997. Quine, Willard Van Orman, 1908-2000. Putnam, Hilary, 1926- Fraassen, Bas C. van, 1941- Lewis, David K., 1941-2001. Fine, Arthur. Cartwright, Nancy. Suppes, Patrick, 1922-2014. |
Collocazione: | LS 11901 |
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