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Inference, Explanation, and Other Frustrations

Author : John Earman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520309871
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Inference, Explanation, and Other Frustrations by : John Earman

Download or read book Inference, Explanation, and Other Frustrations written by John Earman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These provocative essays by leading philosophers of science exemplify and illuminate the contemporary uncertainty and excitement in the field. The papers are rich in new perspectives, and their far-reaching criticisms challenge 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' arguments both describe and demonstrate the fact that philosophy of science is in a ferment more intense than at any time since the heyday of logical positivism early in the twentieth century. Contents: “Thoroughly Modern Meno,” Clark Glymour and Kevin Kelly “The Concept of Induction in the Light of the Interrogative Approach to Inquiry,” Jaakko Hintikka “Aristotelian Natures and Modern Experimental Method,” Nancy Cartwright “Genetic Inference: A Reconsideration of “David Hume's Empiricism,” Barbara D. Massey and Gerald J. Massey “Philosophy and the Exact Sciences: Logical Positivism as a Case Study,” Michael Friedman “Language and Interpretation: Philosophical Reflections and Empirical Inquiry,” Noam Chomsky “Constructivism, Realism, and Philosophical Method,” Richard Boyd “Do We Need a Hierarchical Model of Science?” Diderik Batens “Theories of Theories: A View from Cognitive Science,” Richard E. Grandy “Procedural Syntax for Theory Elements,” Joseph D. Sneed “Why Functionalism Didn't Work,” Hilary Putnam “Physicalism,” Hartry Field This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.

Handbook of Epistemology

Author : I. Niiniluoto
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402019852
Total Pages : 1074 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Epistemology written by I. Niiniluoto and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-03-31 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-eight essays in this Handbook, all by leading experts in the field, provide the most extensive treatment of various epistemological problems, supplemented by a historical account of this field. The entries are self-contained and substantial contributions to topics such as the sources of knowledge and belief, knowledge acquisition, and truth and justification. There are extensive essays on knowledge in specific fields: the sciences, mathematics, the humanities and the social sciences, religion, and language. Special attention is paid to current discussions on evolutionary epistemology, relativism, the relation between epistemology and cognitive science, sociology of knowledge, epistemic logic, knowledge and art, and feminist epistemology. This collection is a must-have for anybody interested in human knowledge, and its fortunes and misfortunes.

Experience, Reality, and Scientific Explanation

Author : Maria Carla Galavotti
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401591911
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Experience, Reality, and Scientific Explanation by : Maria Carla Galavotti

Download or read book Experience, Reality, and Scientific Explanation written by Maria Carla Galavotti and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers collected here comprise the proceedings of a Workshop in honor ofMerrilee and Wes Salmon, held in Florence on May 17-18, 1996. The aim of the meeting was to pay homage to these two American scholars, whose contact with Italian and European Universities and Institutes had a major influence on "Continental" thought in the field of epistemology and probability. In fact, Merrilee and Wes spent various periods lecturing at the Universities of Bologna, Florence, Rome, Trieste, Catania and Pisa, as well as in the University of Constance, where they helped to build a strong cultural "bridge" with the Pittsburgh Center for the Philosophy of Science. The Florence Center for the History and Philosophy of Science is particularly thankful to the Salmons for their ongoing cooperation and frequent visits. We must not forget that Wes Salmon was in the Florence Center and at the Philosophy Department of Florence, as visiting scholar, on many occasions, and that he made important contributions which have later appeared in Italian journals, such as Iride and Rivista di jilosojia. Merrilee was a speaker at the Conference on "Genetics, Linguistics, and Archaeology" (May 20-24,1991), organized by the Florence Center. Both Wes and Merrilee often enlivened the arguments of the initiatives they took part in.

Value and Context

Author : Alan Thomas
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191615188
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Value and Context written by Alan Thomas and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-04-08 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Thomas presents an original study of the status of value and its relation to the contexts in which evaluative claims are justified. He articulates and defends the view that human beings do possess moral and political knowledge, but that it is historically and culturally contextual knowledge in ways that, say, mathematical or chemical knowledge is not. His exposition of a 'cognitivist contextualism' in ethics and politics builds upon contemporary work in epistemology, moral philosophy, and political theory to fashion an argument that is relevant to current debates about culture, modernity, and relativism.

African Philosophy

Author : Lee M. Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195114418
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book African Philosophy written by Lee M. Brown and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2004 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of essays that address epistemological and metaphysical concerns that have emerged from the sub-Saharan regions of Africa. The focus of the book is on traditional African conceptions of mind, person, personal identity, truth, knowledge, understanding, objectivity and reality.

What Philosophers Should Know About Truth

Author : Fred Stoutland
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110620782
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book What Philosophers Should Know About Truth written by Fred Stoutland and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fred Stoutland was a major figure in the philosophy of action and philosophy of language. This collection brings together essays on truth, language, action and mind and thus provides an important summary of many key themes in Stoutland’s own work, as well as offering valuable perspectives on key issues in contemporary philosophy.

Expert Evidence and Scientific Proof in Criminal Trials

Author : Paul Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351567403
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Book Synopsis Expert Evidence and Scientific Proof in Criminal Trials by : Paul Roberts

Download or read book Expert Evidence and Scientific Proof in Criminal Trials written by Paul Roberts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forensic science evidence and expert witness testimony play an increasingly prominent role in modern criminal proceedings. Science produces powerful evidence of criminal offending, but has also courted controversy and sometimes contributed towards miscarriages of justice. The twenty-six articles and essays reproduced in this volume explore the theoretical foundations of modern scientific proof and critically consider the practical issues to which expert evidence gives rise in contemporary criminal trials. The essays are prefaced by a substantial new introduction which provides an overview and incisive commentary contextualising the key debates. The volume begins by placingforensic science in interdisciplinary focus, with contributions from historical, sociological, Science and Technology Studies (STS), philosophical and jurisprudential perspectives. This is followed by closer examination of the role of forensic science and other expert evidence in criminal proceedings, exposing enduring tensions and addressing recent controversies in the relationship between science and criminal law. A third set of contributions considers the practical challenges of interpreting and communicating forensic science evidence. This perennial battle continues to be fought at the intersection between the logic of scientific inference and the psychology of the fact-finder‘scommon sense reasoning. Finally, the volume‘s fourth group of essays evaluates the (limited) success of existing procedural reforms aimed at improving the reception of expert testimony in criminal adjudication, and considers future prospects for institutional renewal - with a keen eye to comparative law models and experiences, success stories and cautionary tales.

Evaluating Scientific Evidence

Author : Erica Beecher-Monas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521676557
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (765 download)

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Download or read book Evaluating Scientific Evidence written by Erica Beecher-Monas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines scientific evidence in both civil and criminal contexts.

Inquiry as Inquiry: A Logic of Scientific Discovery

Author : Jaakko Hintikka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401593132
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Inquiry as Inquiry: A Logic of Scientific Discovery by : Jaakko Hintikka

Download or read book Inquiry as Inquiry: A Logic of Scientific Discovery written by Jaakko Hintikka and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is a genuine logic of scientific discovery possible? In the essays collected here, Hintikka not only defends an affirmative answer; he also outlines such a logic. It is the logic of questions and answers. Thus inquiry in the sense of knowledge-seeking becomes inquiry in the sense of interrogation. Using this new logic, Hintikka establishes a result that will undoubtedly be considered the fundamental theorem of all epistemology, viz., the virtual identity of optimal strategies of pure discovery with optimal deductive strategies. Questions to Nature, of course, must include observations and experiments. Hintikka shows, in fact, how the logic of experimental inquiry can be understood from the interrogative vantage point. Other important topics examined include induction (in a forgotten sense that has nevertheless played a role in science), explanation, the incommensurability of theories, theory-ladenness of observations, and identifiability.

Metaphor and Analogy in the Sciences

Author : F. Hallyn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401594422
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Metaphor and Analogy in the Sciences written by F. Hallyn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers contains historical case studies, systematic contributions of a general nature, and applications to specific sciences. The bibliographies of the contributions contain references to all central items from the traditions that are relevant today. While providing access to contemporary views on the issue, the papers illustrate the wide variety of functions of metaphors and analogies, as well as the many connections between the study of some of these functions and other subjects and disciplines.

New Essays on the Explanation of Action

Author : C. Sandis
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230582974
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book New Essays on the Explanation of Action written by C. Sandis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-11-28 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These previously unpublished essays present the newest developments in the thought of philosophers working on action and its explanation, focusing on a wide range of interlocking issues relating to agency, deliberation, motivation, mental causation, teleology, interpretive explanation and the ontology of actions and their reasons.

The Evidential Foundations of Probabilistic Reasoning

Author : David A. Schum
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810118218
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book The Evidential Foundations of Probabilistic Reasoning written by David A. Schum and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work Schum develops a general theory of evidence as it is understood and applied across a broad range of disciplines and practical undertakings. He include insights from law, philosophy, logic, probability, semiotics, artificial intelligence, psychology and history.

Induction, Algorithmic Learning Theory, and Philosophy

Author : Michèle Friend
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402061277
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Induction, Algorithmic Learning Theory, and Philosophy written by Michèle Friend and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-08-21 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to collect essays from philosophers, mathematicians and computer scientists working at the exciting interface of algorithmic learning theory and the epistemology of science and inductive inference. Readable, introductory essays provide engaging surveys of different, complementary, and mutually inspiring approaches to the topic, both from a philosophical and a mathematical viewpoint.

Theoretical and Practical Reason in Economics

Author : Ricardo F. Crespo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400755635
Total Pages : 115 pages
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Book Synopsis Theoretical and Practical Reason in Economics by : Ricardo F. Crespo

Download or read book Theoretical and Practical Reason in Economics written by Ricardo F. Crespo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues for the restoration of theoretical and practical reason to economics, presenting the ideas of Nancy Cartwright and Amartya Sen, and showing they can foster a useful understanding of practical reason for solving problems in science and society.

A Companion to the Philosophy of Language, 2 Volume Set

Author : Bob Hale
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118974719
Total Pages : 1189 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Philosophy of Language, 2 Volume Set written by Bob Hale and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 1189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Providing up-to-date, in-depth coverage of the central question, and written and edited by some of the foremost practitioners in the field, this timely new edition will no doubt be a go-to reference for anyone with a serious interest in the philosophy of language.” Kathrin Glüer-Pagin, Stockholm University Now published in two volumes, the second edition of the best-selling Companion to the Philosophy of Language provides a complete survey of contemporary philosophy of language. The Companion has been greatly extended and now includes a monumental 17 new essays – with topics chosen by the editors, who curated suggestions from current contributors – and almost all of the 25 original chapters have been updated to take account of recent developments in the field. In addition to providing a synoptic view of the key issues, figures, concepts, and debates, each essay introduces new and original contributions to ongoing debates, as well as addressing a number of new areas of interest, including two-dimensional semantics, modality and epistemic modals, and semantic relationism. The extended “state-of-the-art” chapter format allows the authors, all of whom are internationally eminent scholars in the field, to incorporate original research to a far greater degree than competitor volumes. Unrivaled in scope, this volume represents the best contemporary critical thinking relating to the philosophy of language.

Analytic Philosophy in Finland

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004333886
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Analytic Philosophy in Finland written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finland is internationally known as one of the leading centers of twentieth century analytic philosophy. This volume offers for the first time an overall survey of the Finnish analytic school. The rise of this trend is illustrated by original articles of Edward Westermarck, Eino Kaila, Georg Henrik von Wright, and Jaakko Hintikka. Contributions of Finnish philosophers are then systematically discussed in the fields of logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, history of philosophy, ethics and social philosophy. Metaphilosophical reflections on the nature of philosophy are highlighted by the Finnish dialogue between analytic philosophy, phenomenology, pragmatism, and critical theory.

Social Ontology and Modern Economics

Author : Stephen Pratten
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317703901
Total Pages : 605 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Social Ontology and Modern Economics written by Stephen Pratten and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economists increasingly recognise that engagement with social ontology – the study of the basic subject matter and constitution of social reality - can facilitate more relevant analysis. This growing recognition amongst economists of the importance of social ontology is due very considerably to the work of members of the Cambridge Social Ontology Group. This volume brings together important papers by members of this group, some previously unpublished, in a collection that reveals the breadth and vitality of this Cambridge project. It provides a brilliant introduction to the central themes explored, perspectives sustained, insights achieved and how the project is moving forward. An initial set of papers examine how ontology is understood and justified within this Cambridge project and consider how it compares with prominent historical and contemporary alternatives. The majority of the included papers involve social ontological analysis being put to work directly in underlabouring for specific types of development in economics. The papers are grouped according to their contribution to clarifying and developing (i) various competing traditions and projects of modern economics, (ii) history of thought contributions, (iii) methodological concerns, (iv) ethics and (v) conceptions of particular aspects of social reality, including money, gender, technology and institutions. Background to and a brief history of the Cambridge group is provided in the Introduction. Social Ontology and Modern Economics will be of interest not only to economists but also philosophers of social science, social theorists and those eager to explore the nature of gender, social institutions and technology.