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Philosophy of science matters: the philosophy of Peter Achinstein

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Philosophy of science matters: the philosophy of Peter Achinstein

New York

Oxford University Press

Includes bibliographical references and index

edited by Gregory J. Morgan

Ordinary language and the unordinary philosophy of Peter Achinstein / Steven Gimbel and Jeffrey Maynes -- Evidence, external validity, and explanatory relevance / Nancy Cartwright -- Maxwell, matter, and method: Maxwellian methodology, methodological Maxwellianism, and methods of historical and philosophical speculation -- Achinstein's Newtonian empiricism / Victor Di Fate -- Evidence and objectivity in Achinstein's philosophy of science / Gerald Doppelt -- A defence of Achinstein's pragmatism about explanation / Adam M. Goldstein -- On the very idea of a theory of evidence / Philip Kitcher -- Mill on the hypothetical method: a discussion of Achinstein's defense of Mill and Newton on induction / Frederick M. Kronz -- Waves, particles, independent tests, and the limits of inductivism / Larry Laudan -- What's so great about an objective concept of evidence? / Helen Longino -- The objective epistemic probabilist and the severe tester / Deborah G. Mayo -- Achinstein and Whewell on theoretical coherence / Gregory J. Morgan -- Observationally indistinguishable spacetimes: a challenge for any inductivist / John D. Norton -- Making contact with molecules: on Perrin and Achinstein / Stathis Psillos -- Achinstein and the evidence for evolution / Richard A. Richards -- The place of artificial selection in Charles Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection / Mihael Ruse -- Evidence and justification / Kent Staley -- What was Perrin's real achievement? / Bas C. van Fraassen -- Causes, conditions, and the pragmatics of causal explanation / James Woodward -- Achinstein's replies / Peter Achinstein

، Achinstein, Peter

Philosophy ، Science

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AU Morgan, Gregory J