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Foundations of Scientific Inference
50th Anniversary Edition
Häftad, 2017
684 kr
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After its publication in 1967, The Foundations of Scientific Inference taught a generation of students and researchers about the problem of induction, the interpretation of probability, and confirmation theory. Fifty years later, Wesley C. Salmon’s book remains one of the clearest introductions to …
Causality and Explanation
Häftad, 1998
1503 kr
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Wesley Salmon is renowned for his scholarly contributions to the philosophy of science. This unique volume brings together twenty-six of his essays on subjects related to causality and explanation, written over the period 1971-1995. Six of the essays have never been published before and many others …
Reality and Rationality
Av Wesley C. Salmon, Merrilee H. Salmon m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
2260 kr
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This volume of articles (most published, some new) is a follow-up to the late Wesley C. Salmon's widely read collection Causality And Explanation (OUP 1998). It contains both published and unpublished articles, and focuses on two related areas of inquiry: First, is science a rational enterprise? …
Reality and Rationality
Av Wesley C. Salmon, Merrilee H. Salmon m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
1107 kr
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This volume of articles (most published, some new) is a follow-up to the late Wesley C. Salmon's widely read collection Causality And Explanation (OUP 1998). It contains both published and unpublished articles, and focuses on two related areas of inquiry: First, is science a rational enterprise? …
Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World
Häftad, 1984
325 kr
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The philosophical theory of scientific explanation proposed here involves a radically new treatment of causality that accords with the pervasively statistical character of contemporary science. Wesley C. Salmon describes three fundamental conceptions of scientific explanation--the epistemic, modal, …
Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World
E-bok, 2020
455 kr
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The philosophical theory of scientific explanation proposed here involves a radically new treatment of causality that accords with the pervasively statistical character of contemporary science. Wesley C. Salmon describes three fundamental conceptions of scientific explanation--the epistemic, modal, …
Scientific Explanation
Av Philip Kitcher, Wesley C. Salmon
Häftad, 1962
657 kr
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Scientific Explanation was first published in 1962. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.Is a new consensus emerging in the philosophy of science? …
Four Decades of Scientific Explanation
Häftad, 2006
684 kr
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As Aristotle stated, scientific explanation is based on deductive argument--yet, Wesley C. Salmon points out, not all deductive arguments are qualified explanations. The validity of the explanation must itself be examined. Four Decades of Scientific Explanation provides a comprehensive account of …
Logical Empiricism
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Av Paolo Parrini, Wesley C. Salmon m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
805 kr
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Logical empiricism, a program for the study of science that attempted to provide logical analyses of the nature of scientific concepts, the relation between evidence and theory, and the nature of scientific explanation, formed among the famed Vienna and Berlin Circles of the 1920s and '30s and …
Zeno's Paradoxes
Inbunden, 2001
616 kr
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A reprint of the Bobbs-Merrill edition of 1970.These essays lead the reader through the land of the wonderful shrinking genie to the warehouse where the infinity machines are kept. By careful examination of a lamp that is switched on and off infinitely many times, or the workings of a machine that …
