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Toggle navigation. ISBN Your tags:. Send-to-Kindle or Email Please login to your account first Need help? Please read our short guide how to send a book to Kindle. The file will be sent to your email address. It may take up to minutes before you receive it. The file will be sent to your Kindle account. Rationality, Objectivity, and Values in Science 3. The Duhem-Quine thesis and Underdetermination 4. Induction, Prediction, and Evidence 5. Confirmation and Relevance: Bayesian Approaches 6.

Models of Explanation 7. Laws of Nature 8. Intertheoretic Reduction 9. Empiricism and Scientific Realism I should also add that the book has an introduction and to each of the above sections. Each section is followed by a commentary of each article therein.

Finally, the book has a glossary, name index, and subject index. Great introduction to a grand subject By Brian Used this book for an undergraduate philosophy of science course.

The volume contains a large number of extremely seminal papers with an accessibility that ranges from the relatively easy e. Hempel's D-N model to more difficult works e. Quine's Two Dogmas. As a collection of historically relevant philosophy of science papers, you certainly cannot go wrong with this choice. This book has inspired me to look into Thomas Kuhn's contributions to the field. Kuhn is a sloppy writer and easy to critique [as this book shows], however, he has some 'revolutionary' ideas [no pun intended] as to the nature of paradigm shift in the scientific community.

The book gives bits of other great works from such people as Hemple, Laudan, and even Popper. Highly recommended if you are looking for a survey of works in the field of Philosophy of Science. Posting Komentar. The text describes the mathematical theory alongside the basic concepts and methods of numerical analysis, enriched by computer Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures. The 31 papers presented in this volume were ca The Huawei and Snowden Questions.

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