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Scientific Explanation: A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science - Brossura

Braithwaite, Richard

 
9780521094429: Scientific Explanation: A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science
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ISBN 10: 0521094429 ISBN 13: 9780521094429
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Sinossi

The primary purpose of this book is to examine the logical features common to all the sciences.

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Descrizione del libro

Each science proceeds by inventing general principles from which are deduced the consequences to be tested by observation and experiment; the author shows how the implications of this process explain some of its more baffling features and resolves many of the difficulties that philosophers have found in them.

Contenuti

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Scientific deductive systems and their representations; 3. The status of the theoretical terms of a science; 4. Models for scientific theories: their use and misuse; 5. Statistical hypotheses, probability statements and class-ratio arithmetic; 6. The meaning of probability statements within a scientific system; 7. The choice between statistical hypotheses; 8. The justification of induction; 9. Laws of nature and causality; 10. Causal and teleological explanation; 11. Explanation of scientific laws; Index.

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Editore
Cambridge University Press
Data di pubblicazione
2009
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0521094429
ISBN 13 
9780521094429
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
392
Contatto del produttore
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