The scientific image [electronic resource] / Bas C. van Fraassen.
Presenting an empiricist alternative to both logical positivism and scientific realism, this book insists on a literal understanding of the language of science and on an irreducibly pragmatic dimension of theory acceptance.
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1980.
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The scientific image |h [electronic resource] / |c Bas C. van Fraassen. |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Preface -- CONTENTS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. ARGUMENTS CONCERNING SCIENTIFIC REALISM -- 1. Scientific Realism and Constructive Empiricism -- 1.1 Statement of Scientific Realism -- 1.2 Alternatives to Realism -- 1.3 Constructive Empiricism -- 2. The Theory/Observation �Dichotomy� -- 3. Inference to the Best Explanation -- 4. Limits of the Demand for Explanation -- 5. The Principle of the Common Cause -- 6. Limits to Explanation: a Thought Experiment -- 7. Demons and the Ultimate Argument -- 3. TO SAVE THE PHENOMENA -- 1. Models. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 2. Apparent Motion and Absolute Space3. Empirical Content of Newton's Theory -- 4. Theories and their Extensions -- 5. Extensions: Victory and Qualified Defeat -- 6. Failure of the Syntactic Approach -- 7. The Hermeneutic Circle -- 8. Limits to Empirical Description -- 9. A New Picture of Theories -- 4. EMPIRICISM AND SCIENTIFIC METHODOLOGY -- 1. Empiricist Epistemology and Scepticism -- 2. Methodology and Experimental Design -- 2.1 The Roles of Theory -- 2.2 Measuring the Charge of the Electron -- 2.3 Boyd on the Philosophical Explanation of Methodology. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 2.4 Phenomenology of Scientific Activity3. The Conjunction Objection -- 4. Pragmatic Virtues and Explanation -- 4.1 The Other Virtues -- 4.2 The Incursion of Pragmatics -- 4.3 Pursuit of Explanation -- 5. THE PRAGMATICS OF EXPLANATION -- 1. The Language of Explanation -- 1.1 Truth and Grammar -- 1.2 Some Examples -- 2. A Biased History -- 2.1 Hempel: Grounds for Belief -- 2.2 Salmon: Statistically Relevant Factors -- 2.3 Global Properties of Theories -- 2.4 The Difficulties: Asymmetries and Rejections -- 2.5 Causality: the Conditio Sine Qua Non. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 2.6 Causality: Salmon's Theory2.7 The Clues of Causality -- 2.8 Why-questions -- 2.9 The Clues Elaborated -- 3. Asymmetries of Explanation: A Short Story -- 3.1 Asymmetry and Context: the Aristotelian Sieve -- 3.2 �The Tower and the Shadow� -- 4. A Model for Explanation -- 4.1 Contexts and Propositions -- 4.2 Questions -- 4.3 A Theory of Why-questions -- 4.4 Evaluation of Answers -- 4.5 Presupposition and Relevance Elaborated -- 5. Conclusion -- 6. PROBABILITY: THE NEW MODALITY OF SCIENCE -- 1. Statistics in General Science. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 2. Classical Statistical Mechanics2.1 The Measure of Ignorance -- 2.2 Objective and Epistemic Probability Disentangled -- 2.3 The Intrusion of Infinity -- 3. Probability in Quantum Mechanics -- 3.1 The Disanalogies with the Classical Case -- 3.2 Quantum Probabilities as Conditional -- 3.3 Virtual Ensembles of Measurements -- 4. Towards an Empiricist Interpretation of Probability -- 4.1 Probability Spaces as Models of Experiments -- 4.2 The Strict Frequency Interpretation -- 4.3 Propensity and Virtual Sequences -- 4.4 A Modal Frequency Interpretation. | |
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