Theory and reality : an introduction to the philosophy of science /
How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is "really" like? What makes it different from other ways of understanding the universe? In Theory and Reality, Peter Godfrey-Smith addresses these questions by taking the reader on a grand tour of more than a hundred years of debate ab...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2021]
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Empiricism
- Evidence and Induction
- Popper: Conjecture and Refutation
- Kuhn's Revolution
- Theories and Frameworks
- The Challenge from Sociology of Science
- Science Is Political
- Naturalistic Philosophy
- Scientific Realism
- Explanation, Laws, and Causes
- Bayesianism and New Views of Evidence
- Truth, Simplicity, and Other Problems
- The Future.