Scientific evidence : philosophical theories and applications /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Achinstein, Peter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • A little survey of induction / John D. Norton
  • Four mistaken theses about evidence and how to correct them / Peter Achinstein
  • Restoring ambiguity to Achinstein's account of evidence / Steven Gimbel
  • The fast track to confirmation: Achinstein and Peirce on evidence / Frederick M. Kronz and Amy L. Mclaughlin
  • Positive relevance defended / Sherrilyn Roush
  • A challenge to positive relevance theorists: reply to Roush / Peter Achinstein
  • Evidence as passing severe tests: highly probable versus highly probed these / Deborah G. Mayo
  • Consilience, confirmation and realism / Laura J. Snyder
  • Evidence for transmutation in seventeenth-century alchemy / Lawrence M. Principe
  • Agency and objectivity in the search for the top quark / Kent W. Staley
  • Will genomics do more for metaphysics than Locke? / Alex Rosenberg
  • Is domestic breeding evidence for (or against) Darwinian evolution / Richard A. Richards
  • Evidence in the sciences of behavior / Helen E. Longino
  • Introspective evidence in psychology / Gary Hatfield.