Scientific evidence : philosophical theories and applications /
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2005.
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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.