Confirmation, empirical progress, and truth approximation / / edited by Roberto Festa, Atocha Aliseda and Jeanne Peijnenburg.
This book is the first of two volumes devoted to the work of Theo Kuipers, a leading Dutch philosopher of science. Philosophers and scientists from all over the world, thirty seven in all, comment on Kuipers' philosophy, and each of their commentaries is followed by a reply from Kuipers. The pr...
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| Superior document: | Essays in debate with Theo Kuipers ; 1 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Rodopi. c2005. |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities
83. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (544 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Roberto Festa , Atocha Aliseda and Jeanne Peijnenburg
- INTRODUCTION / Roberto Festa , Atocha Aliseda and Jeanne Peijnenburg
- THE THREEFOLD EVALUATION OF THEORIES: A SYNOPSIS OF FROM INSTRUMENTALISM TO CONSTRUCTIVE REALISM. ON SOME RELATIONS BETWEEN CONFIRMATION, EMPIRICAL PROGRESS, AND TRUTH APPROXIMATION (2000) / Theo A.F. Kuipers
- QUALITATIVE CONFIRMATION AND THE RAVENS PARADOX / Patrick Maher
- GRUESOME PREDICATES / John R. Welch
- BAYESIAN H-D CONFIRMATION AND STRUCTURALISTIC TRUTHLIKENESS: DISCUSSION AND COMPARISON WITH THE RELEVANT-ELEMENT AND THE CONTENT-PART APPROACH / Gerhard Schurz
- LACUNAE, EMPIRICAL PROGRESS AND SEMANTIC TABLEAUX / Atocha Aliseda
- EMPIRICAL PROGRESS AND AMPLIATIVE ADAPTIVE LOGICS / Joke Meheus
- ON A LOGIC OF INDUCTION / Diderik Batens
- ABDUCTION AND TRUTHLIKENESS / Ilkka Niiniluoto
- EMPIRICAL EQUIVALENCE, EXPLANATORY FORCE, AND THE INFERENCE TO THE BEST THEORY / Igor Douven
- CONSTRUCTIVE REALISM AND SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS / Bert Hamminga
- BEAUTY, A ROAD TO THE TRUTH? / David Miller
- TRUTHLIKENESS WITH A HUMAN FACE: ON SOME CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE THEORY OF VERISIMILITUDE AND THE SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE / Jesús P. Zamora Bonilla
- UPDATING THEORIES / Sjoerd D. Zwart
- A NOTE ON MODELING THEORIES / Johan van Benthem
- GEOMETRY OF LOGIC AND TRUTH APPROXIMATION / Thomas Mormann
- FOR BETTER, FOR WORSE: COMPARATIVE ORDERINGS ON STATES AND THEORIES / Isabella C. Burger and Johannes Heidema
- METAPHOR AND METAPHYSICAL REALISM / J.J.A. Mooij
- ON THE RELATIONS BETWEEN (NEO-CLASSICAL) PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND LOGIC / Roberto Festa
- BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THEO A.F. KUIPERS / Roberto Festa , Atocha Aliseda and Jeanne Peijnenburg
- INDEX OF NAMES / Roberto Festa , Atocha Aliseda and Jeanne Peijnenburg
- MONOGRAPHS-IN-DEBATE: CONTENTS OF BACK ISSUES / Roberto Festa , Atocha Aliseda and Jeanne Peijnenburg.