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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Scientific theories
  name:
    name part: Savage, C. Wade.
  name:
    name part: Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mnu
    date issued: 1990
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 429 pages ; 24 cm.
  table of contents: Seek and ye might find / Arthur L. Caplan -- The psychoanalytic enterprise in scientific perspective / Adolf Grünbaum -- On the nature of theories : a neurocomputational perspective / Paul M. Churchland -- Are economic kinds natural? / Alan Nelson -- Foundational physics and empiricist critique / Lawrence Sklar -- Theories as mere conventions / Henry E. Kyburg, Jr. -- Rationality and objectivity in science, or Tom Kuhn meets Tom Bayes / Wesley C. Salmon -- Bayesian problems of old evidence / Ellery Eells -- Fitting your theory to the facts : probably not such a bad thing after all / Colin Howson -- The value of knowledge / Brian Skyrms -- Demystifying underdetermination / Larry Laudan -- Dubbing and redubbing : the vulnerability of rigid designation / Thomas S. Kuhn -- Scientific revolutions and scientific rationality : the case of the elderly holdout / John Worrall.
  table of contents: Realism, approximate truth, and philosophical method / Richard Boyd -- Contrastive empiricism / Elliott Sober.
  note: edited by C. Wade Savage.
  note: Some of these papers were originally presented at an institute conducted by the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science from 1985 to 1987.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Evaluation
  classification: Q175 .M64 v. 14
  classification: 501
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 14
  identifier: 0816618011
  identifier: 90032932
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 900214
    record change date: 20151005085246.0
    record identifier: in00001319244