Representing and Intervening Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science

Name: Representing and Intervening Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science
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ISBN: 9780521282468

ISBN-10: 0521282462

ISBN-13: 9780521282468

Edition: 1983

Authors: Ian Hacking

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This is a lively and clearly written introduction to the philosophy of natural science, organized around the central theme of scientific realism. It has two parts. 'Representing' deals with the different philosophical accounts of scientific objectivity and the reality of scientific entities. The views of Kuhn, Feyerabend, Lakatos, Putnam, van Fraassen, and others, are all considered. 'Intervening' presents the first sustained treatment of experimental science for many years and uses it to give a new direction to debates about realism. Hacking illustrates how experimentation often has a life independent of theory. He argues that although the philosophical problems of scientific realism can…

Book details

List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 1983
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/20/1983
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Ian Hacking is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto. He holds the chair of Philosophy and History of Concepts at the College de France. Among his many books, the most recent is Rewriting the Soul.



Analytical table of contents


Preface


Introduction: rationality



Representing



What is scientific realism?



Building and causing



Positivism



Pragmatism



Incommensurability



Reference



Internal realism



A surrogate for truth



Intervening



Experiment



Observation



Microscopes



Speculation, calculation, models, approximations



The creation of phenomena



Measurement



Baconian topics



Experimentation and scientific realism


Further reading


Index