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Peter Achinstein
The essays in this volume address three fundamental questions in the philosophy of science: What is required for some fact to be evidence for a scientific hypothesis? What does it mean to say that a scientist or a theory explains a phenomenon? Should
Autor:
Peter Achinstein
Publikováno v:
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. 97:111-120
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.12.001
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.12.001
Autor:
Peter Achinstein
Publikováno v:
New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress ISBN: 9781003165859
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https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003165859-22
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003165859-22
Autor:
Peter Achinstein
What is required for something to be evidence for a hypothesis? In this fascinating, elegantly written work, distinguished philosopher of science Peter Achinstein explores this question, rejecting typical philosophical and statistical theories of evi
Autor:
Peter Achinstein
This volume brings together eleven essays by the distinguished philosopher of science, Peter Achinstein. The unifying theme is the nature of the philosophical problems surrounding the postulation of unobservable entities such as light waves, molecule
Autor:
Peter Achinstein
Offering a new approach to scientific explanation, this book focuses initially on the explaining act itself. From that act, a'product'emerges: an explanation. To understand what that product is, as well as how it can be evaluated in the sciences, ref
Autor:
Peter Achinstein
Newton urged scientists never to speculate, only to prove by establishing experimental facts. By contrast, Einstein urged scientists to speculate freely, since only daring speculations, not experimental facts, can advance science. Who, if either, is
Autor:
Peter Achinstein
Publikováno v:
Speculation
Evidential holism is the view that individual hypotheses do not receive evidential support, only entire theoretical systems do. Evidential particularism is the view that within a theoretical system each hypothesis can and must receive evidential supp
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190615055.003.0004
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190615055.003.0004
Autor:
Peter Achinstein
Publikováno v:
Speculation
Some scientists and philosophers claim that a “Theory of Everything” (TOE) exists and that scientists should find it. Such a theory will explain everything on the basis of fundamental laws and fundamental constituents of the universe to which eve
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