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Evidence, Explanation, and Realism

Evidence, Explanation, and Realism

Peter Achinstein

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Oxford University Press
Año de edición:
2010
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Filosofía
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9780199735259

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The essays in this volume address three fundamental questions in the philosophy of science: What is required for some fact to be evidence for a scientific hypothesis? What does it mean to say that a scientist or a theory explains a phenomenon? Should scientific theories that postulate 'unobservable' entities such as electrons be construed realistically as aiming to correctly describe a world underlying what is directly observable, or should such theories be understood as aiming to correctly describe only the observable world?

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