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  title info:
    title: Why science needs metaphysics
    sub title: a plea for structural realism
  name:
    name part: Zahar, Elie.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 291 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: "Arguing against subjectivist epistemology, the author aims to revive a rational metaphysics for the practice and understanding of science"--Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: How respectable is metaphysics? -- The problem of induction -- Protocol or basic statements? -- Falsifiability and parameter-adjustment -- Falsifiability, Duhem-Quine and the status of geometry -- The methodology of scientific research programs (MSRP) -- Structural scientific realism (SSR) -- Atomism and structural realism -- Einstein or the essential unity of science and philosophy.
  note: Elie Zahar.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-281) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Metaphysics
  classification: Q175 .Z24 2007
  classification: 501
  identifier: 9780812696035 (trade paper : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0812696034 (trade paper : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2007001429
  identifier: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip078/2007001429.html
  identifier: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0712/2007001429-d.html
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 070111
    record change date: 20151108071040.0
    record identifier: in00002345965