Science and Partial Truth A Unitary Approach to Models and Scientific Reasoning

Name: Science and Partial Truth A Unitary Approach to Models and Scientific Reasoning
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ISBN: 9780195156515

ISBN-10: 019515651X

ISBN-13: 9780195156515

Edition: 2003

Authors: Newton C. A. da Costa, Steven French

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In the past thirty years, two fundamental issues have emerged in the philosophy of science. One concerns the appropriate attitude we should take towards scientific theories--whether we should regard them as true or merely empirically adequate, for example. The other concerns the nature of scientific theories and models and how these might best be represented. In this ambitious book, da Costa and French bring these two issues together by arguing that theories and models should be regarded as partially rather than wholly true. They adopt a framework that sheds new light on issues to do with belief, theory acceptance, and the realism-antirealism debate. The new machinery of "partial…

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List price: $180.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/18/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 9.09" wide x 6.42" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Science and Partial Truth


Introduction: Aims and Overview



Truth, the Whole Truth, and Partial Truth



Theories and Models



Models and Models



Acceptance, Belief, and Commitment



Inconsistency in Science



Partiality, Pursuit, and Practice



Quasi Truth and the Nature of Induction



From Pragmatic Realism to Structural Empiricism



Extensions


Notes


References


Index