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Fault-Tracing: Against Quine-Duhem : A Defense of the Objectivity of Scientific Justification / Sam Mitchell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mitchell, Sam, author.
- Series:
- Epistemic studies ; Volume 40.
- Epistemic Studies ; Volume 40
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (VIII, 224 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- text file PDF
- Contents:
- 1. An Example of a Constructive Tree in Darwin
- 2. The Meaning of Independent Confirmation
- 3. How to Confirm Hypotheses about Unobservables
- 4. Fault Tracing
- 5. Examples of Fault Tracing
- 6. Chang's Paradox
- 7. Escaping Cycles of Confirmation
- 8. The Theory-Ladenness of Observation
- 9. Cycles of Observations
- 10. Van Fraassen's Paradox 10.1515/9783110685046-011
- 11. Human Values Are Irrelevant to Empirical Justification
- 12. From Constructivism to Metaphysics: Potential Applications
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Sep 2020).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Fault-Tracing: Against Quine-Duhem :.
- ISBN:
- 9783110685046
- 3110685043
- Publisher Number:
- 40030252843
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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