عنوان

The instrument of science :

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0429022514

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0429666292

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9780429022517

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9780429660856

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9780429663574

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9780429666292

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9780367077457

عنوان اصلي

The instrument of science :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

scientific anti-realism revitalised /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Darrell P. Rowbottom.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

New York, NY :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Routledge,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2019.

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

©2019

نام خاص و کميت اثر

1 online resource (1 volume) :

ساير جزييات

illustrations (black and white)

عنوان فروست

Routledge studies in the philosophy of science ;

مشخصه جلد

[19]

متن يادداشت

Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Science as an Instrument: An Introduction; 1 Scientific Progress and the Value of Science; 2 The Limits of Scientific Discourse About the Unobservable; 3 Unconceived Alternatives and the Contingency of Science's Content; 4 Historical Illuminations: 1885-1930; 5 Empirical Understanding; 6 Objections and Comparisons; 7 The Illusion of Scientific Realism; Appendix: What Is Scientific Realism?; Bibliography; Index

بدون عنوان

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متن يادداشت

Roughly, instrumentalism is the view that science is primarily, and should primarily be, an instrument for furthering our practical ends. It has fallen out of favour because historically influential variants of the view, such as logical positivism, suffered from serious defects. In this book, however, Darrell P. Rowbottom develops a new form of instrumentalism, which is more sophisticated and resilient than its predecessors. This position--'cognitive instrumentalism'--involves three core theses. First, science makes theoretical progress primarily when it furnishes us with more predictive power or understanding concerning observable things. Second, scientific discourse concerning unobservable things should only be taken literally in so far as it involves observable properties or analogies with observable things. Third, scientific claims about unobservable things are probably neither approximately true nor liable to change in such a way as to increase in truthlikeness. There are examples from science throughout the book, and Rowbottom demonstrates at length how cognitive instrumentalism fits with the development of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century chemistry and physics, and especially atomic theory. Drawing upon this history, Rowbottom also argues that there is a kind of understanding, empirical understanding, which we can achieve without having true, or even approximately true, representations of unobservable things. In closing the book, he sets forth his view on how the distinction between the observable and unobservable may be drawn, and compares cognitive instrumentalism with key contemporary alternatives such as structural realism, constructive empiricism, and semirealism. Overall, this book offers a strong defence of instrumentalism that will be of interest to scholars and students working on the debate about realism in philosophy of science.

منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک

Ingram Content Group

شماره انبار

9780429663574

عنوان

Instrument of science.

شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي

9780367077457

موضوع مستند نشده

Instrumentalism (Philosophy)

موضوع مستند نشده

Science-- Philosophy.

موضوع مستند نشده

Instrumentalism (Philosophy)

موضوع مستند نشده

PHILOSOPHY-- General.

موضوع مستند نشده

SCIENCE-- Philosophy & Social Aspects.

موضوع مستند نشده

Science-- Philosophy.

موضوع مستند نشده

PDA

موضوع مستند نشده

PHI-- 000000

موضوع مستند نشده

SCI-- 075000

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Rowbottom, Darrell P.,1975-

تاريخ عمليات

20200822095220.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

pn

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y