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Scientific Evidence Peter Achinstein (The Johns Hopkins University)

Scientific Evidence By Peter Achinstein (The Johns Hopkins University)

Scientific Evidence by Peter Achinstein (The Johns Hopkins University)


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Scientific Evidence: Philosophical Theories and Applications by Peter Achinstein (The Johns Hopkins University)

Physicists think they have discovered the top quark. Biologists believe in evolution. But what precisely constitutes evidence for such claims, and why? Scientists often disagree with one another over whether or to what extent some evidence counts in favor of a theory because they are operating with different concepts of scientific evidence. These concepts need to be critically explored. Peter Achinstein has gathered some prominent philosophers and historians of science for critical and lively discussions of both general questions about the meaning of evidence and specific ones about evidence for particular scientific theories. Contributors: Peter Achinstein, The Johns Hopkins University; Steven Gimbel, Gettysburg College; Gary Hatfield, University of Pennsylvania; Frederick M. Kronz, University of Texas-Austin; Helen Longino, University of Minnesota; Deborah G. Mayo, Virginia Tech; Amy L. McLaughlin, Florida Atlantic University; John Norton, University of Pittsburgh; Lawrence M. Principe, The Johns Hopkins University; Richard Richards, University of Alabama; Alex Rosenberg, Duke University; Sherrilyn Roush, Rice University; Laura J. Snyder, St. Johns University; Kent Staley, St. Louis University.

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Leading philosopher of science Peter Achinstein has put together a first-rate collection on the problem of scientific evidence.--Michael Ruse, Florida State University

About Peter Achinstein (The Johns Hopkins University)

Peter Achinstein is a professor of philosophy at the Johns Hopkins University. His previous books include Science Rules and Concepts of Science, also available from Johns Hopkins.

Table of Contents

Preface
Contributors
Part I: Philosophical Theories of Evidence
Chapter 1. A Little Survey of Induction
Chapter 2. Four Mistaken Theses about Evidence, and How to Correct Them
Chapter 3. Restoring Ambiguity to Achinstein's Account of Evidence
Chapter 4. The Fast Track to Confirmation: Achinstein and Peirce on Evidence
Chapter 5. Positive Relevance: A Defense and a Challenge
Chapter 6. Evidence as Passing Sever Tests: Highly Probably Versus Highly Probed Hypotheses
Chapter 7. Consilience, Confirmation, and Realism
Part II: Scientific Applications
Chapter 8. Evidence for Transmutation in Seventeenth-Century Alchemy
Chapter 9. Agency and Objectivity in the Search for the Top Quark
Chapter 10. Will Genomics Do More for Metaphysics Than Locke?
Chapter 11. Is Domestic Evidence For (Or Against) Darwinian Evolution?
Chapter 12. Evidence in the Sciences of Behavior
Chapter 13. Introspective Evidence in Psychology

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CIN0801881188G
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0801881188
Scientific Evidence: Philosophical Theories and Applications by Peter Achinstein (The Johns Hopkins University)
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Johns Hopkins University Press
20050727
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