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9781402008313

Recent Themes in the Philosophy of Science

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    9781402008313

  • ISBN10:

    1402008317

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-09-01
  • Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub
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This volume brings together ten original, thematically-related papers, written by prominent figures in the philosophy of science in Australasia and elsewhere. The contributed papers are focused on two fundamental issues in contemporary philosophy of science, the status of scientific realism and the relationship between science and commonsense. The contemporary scientific realism debate turns on the viability of the claims that science aims at truth and that we can justifiably believe that science has achieved or approximated this aim. Several papers in the collection constitute original contributions to this debate. Other papers explore what appears to be an increasingly divergent relationship between the scientific and commonsense images of the world. This volume is a valuable resource for all who are interested in and engaged by contemporary philosophy of science.

Table of Contents

Forewordp. vii
Acknowledgementsp. viii
Introduction: Scientific Realism and Commonsensep. ix
Realism Through Manipulation, and by Hypothesisp. 1
Chalmers' Defence of Scientific Realism against Cartwrightp. 25
Scientific Realism and the Empirical Nature of Methodology: Bayesians, Error Statisticians, and Statistical Inferencep. 39
Scientific Realism and the Pessimistic Meta-Modus Tollensp. 63
Miracle or Mystery? Hypotheses and Predictions in Rankine's Thermodynamicsp. 91
Putnam's No-Miracle Argument: a Critiquep. 121
Some Surprising Phenomena and Some Unsatisfactory Explanations of Themp. 139
Marks of Irrationalityp. 157
Implications of Inquiry: a Pragmatist View of the Scientific and Manifest Imagep. 175
Human Agency, Realism and the New Essentialismp. 193
Notes on Contributorsp. 209
Indexp. 211
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