Scientific Theories, Volume 14C. Wade Savage A whole new crop of worms from the philosophy of science can. Based on a two-year study, 15 essays look over the shoulder of scientists in biomedicine, economics, neuropsychology, physics, and other disciplines, and comment on how and why they devise, use, and legitimize their theories. Annotation c |
Contents
Caplan 22 | 22 |
The Psychoanalytic Enterprise in Scientific Perspective | 41 |
A Neurocomputational Perspective | 59 |
Are Economic Kinds Natural? | 102 |
Foundational Physics and Empiricist Critique | 136 |
Theories as Mere Conventions | 158 |
Rationality and Objectivity in Science or Tom Kuhn | 175 |
Bayesian Problems of Old Evidence | 205 |
Probably Not Such | 224 |
Brian Skyrms | 245 |
Demystifying Underdetermination | 267 |
The Vulnerability | 298 |
Realism Approximate Truth and Philosophical Method | 355 |
Contrastive Empiricism | 392 |
Contributors | 413 |
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