Inference, Explanation, and Other Frustrations. Essays in the Philosophy of Science.

EARMAN, John (ed.):

ISBN 10: 0520075773 / ISBN 13: 9780520075771

Published by Berkeley, etc.: University of California Press, 1992., 1992

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xi, 301, [1] pp. Original cloth. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket. Pittsburgh Series in Philosophy and History of Science, Vol. 14. Contributors include Nancy Cartwright, Chomsky, Glymour, Hintikka, Hilary Putnam, et al.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Inference, Explanation, and Other Frustrations. Essays in the Philosophy of Science.
• Publisher: Berkeley, etc.: University of California Press, 1992.
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520075773
• ISBN 13: 9780520075771
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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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.

About the Author

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).