Knowing the Structure of Nature: Essays on Realism and Explanation by Psillos, S.

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Knowing the Structure of Nature: Essays on Realism and Explanation by Psillos, S.

Knowing the Structure of Nature: Essays on Realism and Explanation

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Knowing the Structure of Nature: Essays on Realism and Explanation by Psillos, S.

Knowing the Structure of Nature: Essays on Realism and Explanation

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Preface Introduction PART I: SCIENTIFIC REALISM The Present State of the Scientific Realism Debate Scientific Realism and Metaphysics Thinking About the Ultimate Argument for Realism Against Neo-Instrumentalism Tracking the Real: Through Thick and Thin Cartwright's Realist Toil: From Entities to Capacities PART II: STRUCTURAL REALISM Is Structural Realism Possible? The Structure, the Whole Structure and Nothing but the Structure? Ramsey's Ramsey-sentences PART III: INFERENCE TO THE BEST EXPLANATION Simply the Best: A Case for Abduction Inference to the Best Explanation and Bayesianism Notes References Index

Author: S. Psillos
ISBN-10: 0230007112
ISBN-13: 9780230007116
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 04/30/2009
Pages: 230
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 0.80d
By S. Psillos
By S. Psillos
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STATHIS PSILLOS is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Athens, Greece. He is the author of Scientific Realism: How Science Tracks Truth (1999), Causation and Explanation (2002) and Philosophy of Science A-Z (2007). He edited with Martin Curd The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, (2008). He has published over sixty articles in various areas in the philosophy of science. In 2007, he was elected President of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA).


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