Speculation : within and about science /
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Scientific speculation: a pragmatic approach
- The complex story of simplicity: ontological and epistemic speculations
- Non-epistemic simplicity: Maxwell, Newton, and speculation
- Holism vs. particularism: an ethical debate ("find the ether")
- The ultimate speculation: a "theory of everything" (what is it, and why should we want one?)
- Summing up.