Experience, Reality, and Scientific Explanation: Workshop in Honour of Merrilee and Wesley Salmon
Author:   Maria Carla Galavotti ,  A. Pagnini
Publisher:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1999
Volume:   61
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9789048151455


Pages:   252
Publication Date:   28 October 2010
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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. Audience: 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:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1999
Volume:   61
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.428kg
ISBN:  

9789048151455


ISBN 10:   9048151457
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   28 October 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of 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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