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The book of evidence / Peter Achinstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Achinstein, Peter, author.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in philosophy of science.
- Oxford studies in philosophy of science
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Evidence.
- Logic.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (290 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What is required for something to be evidence for an hypothesis? In this text, Peter Achinstein, introduces here a basic concept of potential evidence which is characterised using a novel epistemic interpretation of probability.
- Contents:
- The dean's challenge
- Concepts of evidence, or how the electron got its charge
- Two major prbabilistic theories of evidence
- What's wrong with these probabilistic theories of evidence?
- Objective epistemic probability
- Evidence, high probability, and belief
- The explanatory connection
- Final definitions and realism
- Two paradoxes of evidence : ravens and grue
- Explanation versus prediction : which carries more evidential weight?
- Old-age and new-age holism
- Evidence for molecules : Jean Perrin and molecular reality
- Who really discovered the electron?
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-983302-8
- 9786610427918
- 1-280-42791-4
- 1-4237-5646-0
- 0-19-803291-9
- 1-60256-488-4
- OCLC:
- 191038418
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