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9780199251575

Theory and Truth Philosophical Critique within Foundational Science

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    9780199251575

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    0199251576

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-04-25
  • Publisher: Clarendon Press

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Summary

Skeptics have cast doubt on the idea that scientific theories give us a true picture of an objective world. Lawrence Sklar examines three kinds of skeptical arguments about scientific truth, and explores the important role they play within foundational science itself. Sklar demonstrates that these kinds of philosophical critique are employed within science, and reveals the clear difference between how they operate in a scientific context and more abstract philosophical contexts. The underlying theme of Theory and Truth is that science and philosophy are essential to one another. Sklar advances the claim that one cannot understand the methods of science without a comprehension of philosophy, and one cannot fruitfully pursue philosophy of science without understanding fundamental science as well.

Author Biography


Lawrence Sklar is William K. Frankena Collegiate Professor and Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(2)
Theory and Truth
3(8)
Suggested Readings
10(1)
Ontological Elimination
11(29)
Ontological Elimination Founded on Critique
11(4)
Features Other than Critique that Motivate Eliminative Reinterpretations
15(4)
Common Elements in Critical Reconstructions
19(3)
Some Varieties of the Notion of ``Observational Content'' and of the Elimination of the Unobservable
22(10)
Doubts Concerning Naturalisms
32(3)
The Place of Global Empiricist Programs
35(5)
Suggested Readings
37(3)
Idealization
40(38)
The Non-Isolability of Systems
44(11)
The Partial Nature of Theories
55(6)
The Role of Limits
61(10)
Models
71(7)
Suggested Readings
76(2)
Transience
78(59)
Kinds of Cognitive Attitudes
81(14)
Thinning Content
95(4)
Dealing with Transience within Science
99(7)
Reconstructing the Present as a Guide to the Future
106(12)
Theories about our Theories
118(19)
Suggested Readings
135(2)
Conclusions
137(6)
References 143(6)
Index 149

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