Reality and rationality

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Title:

Author:

Salmon, Wesley C.

ISBN:

9780195177848

9780195181951

Personal Author:

Salmon, Wesley C.

Publication Information:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Physical Description:

xi, 285 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Realism and empiricism: the key question -- Scientific realism in the empiricist tradition -- An empiricist argument for realism -- Plausibility arguments in science -- Discovery and justification -- Rationality and objectivity in science -- Revisions of scientific convictions -- Dynamic rationality -- Hume's arguments on cosmology and design -- The "almost-deduction" theory -- The "partial-entailment" theory -- Confirmation and relevance.

Subject Term:

Science -- Philosophy.

Added Author:

Dowe, Phil.

Salmon, Merrilee H.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0601/2004050051.html
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0639/2004050051-d.html
Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0725/2004050051-b.html

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Summary

This volume of articles (most published, some new) is a follow-up to the late Wesley C. Salmon's widely read collection Causality And Explanation (OUP 1998). It contains both published and unpublished articles, and focuses on two related areas of inquiry: First, is science a rational enterprise? Secondly, does science yield objective information about our world, even the aspects that we cannot observe directly? Salmon's own take is that objective knowledge of the world is possible, and his work in these articles centers around proving that this can be so. Salmon's influential standing in the field ensures that this volume will be of interest to both undergraduates and professional philosophers, primarily in the philosophy of science.