{"product_id":"science-and-partial-truth-newton-c-a-da-costa-9780195156515","title":"Science and Partial Truth: A Unitary Approach to Models and Scientific Reasoning","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 structures\" that they develop offers a new perspective from which to view the nature of scientific models and their heuristic development. Their conclusions will be of wide interest to philosophers and historians of science.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Newton C. a. Da Costa, Steven French\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 019515651X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195156515\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/18\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.66h x 6.26w x 0.93d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2004 pg. 1901","brand":"Newton C. a. Da Costa","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44054649241855,"sku":"9780195156515","price":180.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_acbad843-fb2d-4c16-bdb0-ee0e0c6998f1.jpg?v=1685031181","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/science-and-partial-truth-newton-c-a-da-costa-9780195156515","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}