Philosophy of science matters
Subtitle: the philosophy of Peter Achinstein
By: edited by Gregory J. Morgan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780199738625
Subjects: Science; Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ordinary language and the unordinary philosophy of Peter Achinstein / Steven Gimbel and Jeffrey Maynes; title: Evidence, external validity, and explanatory relevance / Nancy Cartwright; title: Maxwell, matter, and method: Maxwellian methodology, methodological Maxwellianism, and methods of historical and philosophical speculation; title: Achinstein's Newtonian empiricism / Victor Di Fate; title: Evidence and objectivity in Achinstein's philosophy of science / Gerald Doppelt; title: A defence of Achinstein's pragmatism about explanation / Adam M. Goldstein; title: On the very idea of a theory of evidence / Philip Kitcher; title: Mill on the hypothetical method: a discussion of Achinstein's defense of Mill and Newton on induction / Frederick M. Kronz; title: Waves, particles, independent tests, and the limits of inductivism / Larry Laudan; title: What's so great about an objective concept of evidence? / Helen Longino; title: The objective epistemic probabilist and the severe tester / Deborah G. Mayo; title: Achinstein and Whewell on theoretical coherence / Gregory J. Morgan; title: Observationally indistinguishable spacetimes: a challenge for any inductivist / John D. Norton; title: Making contact with molecules: on Perrin and Achinstein / Stathis Psillos; title: Achinstein and the evidence for evolution / Richard A. Richards; title: The place of artificial selection in Charles Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection / Mihael Ruse; title: Evidence and justification / Kent Staley; title: What was Perrin's real achievement? / Bas C. van Fraassen; title: Causes, conditions, and the pragmatics of causal explanation / James Woodward; title: Achinstein's replies / Peter Achinstein.