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Résumé
In this volume, which was originally published in 1982, Paul Horwich presents a clear and unified approach to a number of problems in the philosophy of science. He diagnoses the failure of other attempts to resolve them as stemming from a too-rigid, all-or-nothing conception of belief, and adopts instead a Bayesian strategy, emphasising the degree of confidence to which we are entitled the light of scientific evidence. This probabilistic approach, he argues, yields a more complete understanding of the assumptions and procedures characteristic of scientific reasoning. It also accounts for the merits of simplicity, severe tests and surprising predictions, and provides a way in which the dispute between the realist and instrumentalist views of science might be resolved. The result is a crisp, well-focused contribution to the philosophy of science. The elaboration of an important conception of probability will stimulate anyone with an interest in the field.
Détails de l'édition
- ISBN-13
- 9780521283366
- ISBN-10
- 0521283361
- EAN
- 9780521283366
- Éditeur
- Cambridge university press (Cambridge)
- Date de publication
- 16 juin 2011
- Langue
- en
- Pages
- 0
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
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