Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Cheyne, Colin.
2. Worrall, John.
3. Musgrave, Alan.

Description

1. x, 337 pages; 25 cm.

Series statement

1. Studies in history and philosophy of science ; v. 20

Uniform title

1. Studies in history and philosophy of science (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ; v. 20.

Subject

1. Musgrave, Alan
2. Musgrave, Alan
3. Musgrave, Alan > Criticism and interpretation
4. Rationalism
5. Critical realism
6. Knowledge, Theory of
7. Science > Philosophy
8. rationalism (philosophy)
9. epistemology
10. Philosophie
11. Wissenschaftstheorie
12. Kritisk realism
13. Kunskapsteori

Contents

1. Where does the burden of theory lie? / Gregory Currie -- Testimony, induction and reasonable belief / Colin Cheyne -- Theory-confirmation and history / John Worrall -- Critical rationalism and its failure to withstand critical scrutiny / Deborah G. Mayo -- Methodological rules, rationality, and truth / Volker Gadenne -- Why is it rational to believe scientific theories are true? / Howard Sankey -- Thinking about the ultimate argument for realism / Stathis Psillos -- The unseen world / Michael Redhead -- Why Alan Musgrave should become an essentialist / Alan Chalmers -- The metaphysics of realism and structural realism / Robert Nola -- Scientific realism and mathematical nominalism : a marriage made in hell / Mark Colyvan -- A methodological critique of the semantic conception of theories / Noretta Koertge -- A refutation of Peircean idealism / Graham Oddie -- Historiography as a hypothetico-deductive science : a criticism of methodological historism / Hans Albert -- Ptolemy's musical models for mind-maps and star-maps / Andrew Barker.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.