Inference, Explanation, and Other Frustrations: Essays in the Philosophy of Science

By John Earman

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These provocative essays by leading philosophers of science exemplify and illuminate the contemporary uncertainty and excitement in this changing field. The papers are rich in new perspectives, and their far-reaching criticisms challenge arguments long prevalent in classic philosophical problems of induction, empiricism, and realism. By turns empirical or analytic, historical or programmatic, confessional or argumentative, the authors' arguments both describe and demonstrate the fact that philosophy of science is in a ferment more intense than at any time since the heyday of logical positivism seventy years ago.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0520075773

ISBN13:9780520075771

Release Date:December 1992

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:301 Pages

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