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  title info:
    title: Speculation
    sub title: Within and about Science
  name:
    name part: Achinstein, Peter.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    publisher: Oxford University Press USA - OSO
    date issued: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (297 pages)
  abstract: Newton deplored speculation in science, Einstein reveled in it. What exactly are scientific speculations? Are they ever legitimate? Are they subject to constraints? This book defends a pragmatic approach to these issues and applies it to speculations within science (e.g., ones in fundamental physics) and to speculations about science (e.g., ones about simplicity, holism, and a ""Theory of Everything"").
  table of contents: Cover; Speculation; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Scientific Speculation: A Pragmatic Approach; 2. The Complex Story of Simplicity: Ontological and Epistemic Speculations; 3. Non-​Epistemic Simplicity: Maxwell, Newton, and Speculation; 4. Holism vs. Particularism: An Evidential Debate ("Find the Ether"); 5. The Ultimate Speculation: A "Theory of Everything" (What Is It, and Why Should We Want One?); 6. Summing Up; Index
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Sciences
    topic: Méthodologie
  subject:
    topic: Epistemology
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
  subject:
    topic: Metaphysics
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy & Social Aspects
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Philosophy
  classification: Q175 .A26829 2018
  classification: 501
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Speculation : Within and about Science
    name:
      name part: Achinstein, Peter.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, ©2018
  identifier: 9780190615062
  identifier: 0190615060
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  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 181103
    record change date: 20260319180132.0
    record identifier: in00005716590
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng