Experience, Reality, and Scientific Explanation: Workshop in Honour of Merrilee and Wesley Salmon
Author:   Maria Carla Galavotti ,  A. Pagnini
Publisher:   Springer
Edition:   1999 ed.
Volume:   61
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9780792354970


Pages:   252
Publication Date:   31 December 1998
Format:   Hardback
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Experience, Reality, and Scientific Explanation: Workshop in Honour of Merrilee and Wesley Salmon


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The essays in this volume cover a wide array of topics related to the work of Merrilee and Wesley Salmon. It includes discussions of scientific explanation, rationality, inference and induction, social behaviour, philosophy of physics and biology. Some of the essays have been written with an historical perspective. The volume is completed by a long commentary on the papers, written by Merrilee and Wesley Salmon. The book should appeal to scholars and researchers in such fields as philosophy of science, epistemology, philosophy of the natural and social sciences, history of contemporary philosophy, and inductive logic.

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Author:   Maria Carla Galavotti ,  A. Pagnini
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1999 ed.
Volume:   61
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.190kg
ISBN:  

9780792354970


ISBN 10:   0792354974
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   31 December 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

The Reception of German Scientific Philosophy in North America: 1930–1962.- Immanenzgedanken and Knowledge as Unification. Scientific Philosophy and Philosophy of Science.- Wesley Salmon on Explanation, Probability and Rationality.- Bayesian Confirmation.- The Great Illusion: Ignorance, Informational Cascades, and the Persistence of Unpopular Norms.- On Hume’s Experimental Atheism.- It Happened at the Same Time: Salmon and the Conventionality of Distant Simultaneity.- On Various Realisms in Quantum Theory.- Wrongful Life: Logico-Empiricist Philosophy of Biology.- Comments.- Words of Appreciation.

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