Why science needs metaphysics
By: Elie Zahar.
Publisher: Open Court
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780812696035
Subjects: Science -- Philosophy; Science -- Methodology; Metaphysics
Description: "Arguing against subjectivist epistemology, the author aims to revive a rational metaphysics for the practice and understanding of science"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: How respectable is metaphysics?; title: The problem of induction; title: Protocol or basic statements?; title: Falsifiability and parameter-adjustment; title: Falsifiability, Duhem-Quine and the status of geometry; title: The methodology of scientific research programs (MSRP); title: Structural scientific realism (SSR); title: Atomism and structural realism; title: Einstein or the essential unity of science and philosophy.