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Observation and Theory in Science (Thalheimer Lectures) - Hardcover

Nagel, Ernest Sylvain; Bromberger, Sylvian

 
9780801813030: Observation and Theory in Science (Thalheimer Lectures)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0801813034 ISBN 13: 9780801813030
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1971

Inhaltsangabe

Originally published in 1971. The three contributions collected in this volume deal with different aspects of a single theme―the logical status of scientific theories in their relation to observation. These lectures, authored by different thinkers, treat this theme in connection with some controversies in the philosophy of science. A nonspecialist who reads these lectures should realize that the theme itself is a perennial one with an ancient lineage. It has concerned philosophers from the earliest era of philosophy on down through the centuries. A central philosophical issue at stake in the lectures is the question of whether scientific theories are testable in terms of our observations such that we can know whether some theories are true and others false. Although differing in their emphases, all three contributors seek a more plausible and nonskeptical philosophical account of the status of scientific theories in relation to observation.

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Ernest Nagel was a philosopher of science who helped spearhead the logical positivist movement. He became a professor at Columbia University in 1967 and remained there until his retirement in 1970. Sylvian Bromberger was a professor of philosophy at MIT who specialized in linguistics. Adolf Grünbaum, a German American philosopher of science, was the Andrew Mellon Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Verlag
Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1971
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0801813034
ISBN 13 
9780801813030
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
144
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