From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism: On Some Relations between Confirmation, Empirical Progress, and Truth Approximation - Couverture souple

Kuipers, Theo A.F.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9401716196 ISBN 13 : 9789401716192

Editeur : Springer, 2014

Synopsis

Foreword. 1. General Introduction: Epistemological Positions. Part I: Confirmation. 2. Confirmation by the HD-Method. 3. Quantitative Confirmation, and its Qualitative Consequences. 4. Inductive Confirmation and Inductive Logic. Part II: Empirical Progress. 5. Separate Evaluation of Theories by the HD-Method. 6. Empirical Progress and Pseudoscience. Part III: Basic Truth Approximation. 7. Truthlikeness and Truth Approximation. 8. Intuitions of Scientists and Philosophers. 9. Epistemological Stratification of Nomic Truth Approximation. Part IV: Refined Truth Approximation. 10. Refinement of Nomic Truth Approximation. 11. Examples of Potential Truth Approximation. 12. Quantitative Truthlikeness and Truth Approximation. 13. Conclusion: Constructive Realism. Notes. References. Index of Names. Index of Subjects.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9401716196
• ISBN 13: 9789401716192
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
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