Underdetermination: An Essay on Evidence and the Limits of Natural Knowledge: 261 (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science) - Softcover

Bonk, Thomas

 
9789402404814: Underdetermination: An Essay on Evidence and the Limits of Natural Knowledge: 261 (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science)
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ISBN 10: 9402404813 ISBN 13: 9789402404814
Verlag: Springer, 2016

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This timely book offers a wide-ranging study of the thesis that scientific theories are systematically "underdetermined" by the data they account for. After analyzing the epistemological and ontological aspects of the topic in detail, and reviewing pertinent logical facts and selected scientific cases, the author carefully examines the merits of arguments for and against the thesis. Along the way, he investigates methodological proposals and recent theories of confirmation.

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Underdetermination. An Essay on Evidence and the Limits of Natural Knowledge is a wide-ranging study of the thesis that scientific theories are systematically "underdetermined" by the data they account for. This much-debated thesis is a thorn in the side of scientific realists and methodologists of science alike and of late has been vigorously attacked. After analyzing the epistemological and ontological ascpects of the controversy in detail, and reviewing pertinent logical facts and selected scientific cases, Bonk carefully examines the merits of arguments for and against the thesis. Along the way, he investigates methodological proposals and recent theories of confirmation, which promise to discriminate among observationally equivalent theories on evidential grounds. He explores sympathetically but critically W.V.Quine and H.Putnam’s arguments for the thesis, the relationship between indeterminacy and underdetermination, and possibilities for a conventionalist solution. This book is of interest to anyone working in philosophy of science, and to those interested in the philosophy of Quine.

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Springer
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9402404813
ISBN 13 
9789402404814
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