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Images of science : essays on realism and empiricism, with a reply from Bas C. van Fraassen
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Images of science : essays on realism and empiricism, with a reply from Bas C. van Fraassen

Author: Bas C Van Fraassen; Paul M Churchland; C A Hooker
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1985.
Series: Science and its conceptual foundations
Edition/Format: Book : English
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Named Person: Bas C Van Fraassen
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Bas C Van Fraassen; Paul M Churchland; C A Hooker
ISBN: 0226106535 9780226106533 0226106543 9780226106540
OCLC Number: 11841249
Description: viii, 309 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Lex Orandi est Lex Credendi / Richard N. Boyd -- The Ontological status of observables : in praise of the superempirical virtues / Paul M. Churchland -- What science aims to do / Brian Ellis -- Constructive realism / Ronald N. Giere -- Explanation and realism / Clark Glymour -- Scientific realism versus constructive empiricism : a dialogue / Gary Gutting -- Do we see through a microscope? / Ian Hacking -- Surface dazzle, ghostly depths : an exposition and critical evaluation of van Fraassen's vindication of empiricism against realism / Clifford A. Hooker -- Realism versus constructive empiricism / Alan Musgrave -- What can theory tell us about observation? / Mark Wilson -- Empiricism in the philosophy of science / Bas C. Van Fraassen.
Series Title: Science and its conceptual foundations
Responsibility: edited by Paul M. Churchland and Clifford A. Hooker.
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