Way Eileen Cornell (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good - Crisp, clean, unread book with some shelfwear/edgewear, may have a remainder mark - NICE Standard-sized.

PAPERBACK. Condition: VG. 1ST.

Paperback. Condition: Gut. 1st ed. in paperback. 267 S. Ex.-Libr., Good condition. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 685.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Paperback Edition. Card covers show very light shelf wear, light soil bottom page edges.; A bright, solid book, card covers are clean and crisp, text unmarked. ; 9.10 X 5.90 X 0.80 inches; 213 pages; "Does science give us a progressively more accurate and objective account of the world? This book by three leading philosophers of science presents a new defense of scientific realism against skeptical and positivist attacks. While positivists view scientific theories as devices for predicting observable phenomena, realists maintain that theories describe hidden processes which account for observable phenomena.This problem raises the question: What are scientific theories about? Do they refer to an unobservable yet real realm of physical processes? It seems undeniable that the scientific endeavor has in some sense made progress. But is the increasing practical success of the physical sciences good grounds for believing that their theories and techniques lead us nearer to the truth? According to Aronson, Harre, and Way, past failures to answer these questions have been due in large part to the assumption that knowledge is expressed in propositions and organized by the canons of logic. On the assumption that science must meet the world in a correspondence between statements and states of affairs, realism turns out to be difficult to defend. Realism Rescued offers a new direction, relying on the importance of models in scientific work. Theories are not to be thought of as sets of propositions, though they can be expressed propositionally. Rather they are models, chunks of orderings of natural kinds. For the first time, the indispensability of models is turned into a powerful argument for realism, an argument that confronts the skeptic on his own ground. By drawing on a new technique of knowledge representation developed in Artificial Intelligence, the dynamic type-hierarchy, the authorsgive a convincing account of the central role of models. Such concepts as verisimilitude, natural kind, natural necessity, and natural law can then be presented far more clearly than ever before.".

Condition: Very Good. - Minor shelfwear - Adhesive plastic to covers which is a little scrappy around spine - Otherwise Clean bright tight book 288 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Book has some light toning to spine but is otherwise excellent, very clean and sharp, with a tight binding and clean pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 213 pages in very good condition. Pages have some light penciling throughout. Page edges are lightly smudged. Bound in black and mauve card covers with white titles. Lightly worn around the edges. Creased on the spine. VG. Book.

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Condition: Sehr gut. XX, 271 Seiten, Studies in Cognitive Systems, Band 7. Zust: Gutes Exemplar. Mit Vorbesitzereintrag. Schneller Versand und persönlicher Service - jedes Buch händisch geprüft und beschrieben - aus unserem Familienbetrieb seit über 25 Jahren. Eine Rechnung mit ausgewiesener Mehrwertsteuer liegt jeder unserer Lieferungen bei. Wir versenden mit der deutschen Post. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 570 gebundene Ausgabe gebundene Ausgabe.