Observation and Theory in Science [by] Ernest Nagel, Sylvain Bromberger [and] Adolf Grünbaum. With an introd. by Stephen F. Barker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nagel, Ernest, 1901-1985.

Contributor:

Grünbaum, Adolf.

Bromberger, Sylvain.

Series:

Thalheimer Lectures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Methodology.

Science.

Science--Philosophy.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (134 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Johns Hopkins University Press 2019

Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press [1971]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Originally published in 1971. The three contributions collected in this volume deal with different aspects of a single theme—the logical status of scientific theories in their relation to observation. These lectures, authored by different thinkers, treat this theme in connection with some controversies in the philosophy of science. A nonspecialist who reads these lectures should realize that the theme itself is a perennial one with an ancient lineage. It has concerned philosophers from the earliest era of philosophy on down through the centuries. A central philosophical issue at stake in the lectures is the question of whether scientific theories are testable in terms of our observations such that we can know whether some theories are true and others false. Although differing in their emphases, all three contributors seek a more plausible and nonskeptical philosophical account of the status of scientific theories in relation to observation.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

1. Theory and Observation

2. Science and the Forms of Ignorance

3. Can We Ascertain the Falsity of a Scientific Hypothesis?

An Appreciation

Index.

Notes:

"Three lectures ... delivered in Baltimore in April and May of 1969."

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8018-1303-4

1-4214-3325-7

OCLC:

1122187312