Inference, Explanation & Other Frustrations – Essays in the Philosophy of Science (Paper): 14 (Pittsburgh Series in Philosophy and History of Science) - Softcover

Earman, John

 
9780520080447: Inference, Explanation & Other Frustrations – Essays in the Philosophy of Science (Paper): 14 (Pittsburgh Series in Philosophy and History of Science)

Synopsis

These essays by leading philosophers of science exemplify and illuminate the contemporary uncertainty and excitement in this changing field. The far-reaching criticism challenges arguments long prevalent in classic philosophical problems of induction, empiricism and realism. By turns empirical or analytic, historical or programmatic, confessional or argumentative, the authors both describe and demonstrate the fact that the philosophy of science is in a ferment more intense than at any time since the heyday of logical positivism 70 years ago.

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John Earman is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of World Enough and Space-Time: Absolute vs. Relationship Theories of Space and Time (1989) and Bayes or Bust? A Critical Examination of Bayesian Confirmation Theory (1991).

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