Error and inference : recent exchanges on experimental reasoning, reliability, and the objectivity and rationality of science / edited by Deborah G. Mayo, Aris Spanos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mayo, Deborah G., editor.

Spanos, Aris, 1952- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inference.

Science--Philosophy.

Science--Methodology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 419 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Error & Inference

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Summary:

Although both philosophers and scientists are interested in how to obtain reliable knowledge in the face of error, there is a gap between their perspectives that has been an obstacle to progress. By means of a series of exchanges between the editors and leaders from the philosophy of science, statistics and economics, this volume offers a cumulative introduction connecting problems of traditional philosophy of science to problems of inference in statistical and empirical modelling practice. Philosophers of science and scientific practitioners are challenged to reevaluate the assumptions of their own theories - philosophical or methodological. Practitioners may better appreciate the foundational issues around which their questions revolve and thereby become better 'applied philosophers'. Conversely, new avenues emerge for finally solving recalcitrant philosophical problems of induction, explanation and theory testing.

Contents:

Introduction and background / Deborah G. Mayo and Aris Spanos

1. Learning from error, severe testing, and the growth of theoretical knowledge / Deborah G. Mayo

2. The life of theory in the new experimentalism : can scientific theories be warranted? / Alan Chalmers

Can scientific theories be warranted with severity? : exchanges with Alan Chalmers / Deborah G. Mayo

3. Revisiting critical rationalism

Critical rationalism, explanation, and severe tests / Alan Musgrave

Toward progressive critical rationalism : exchanges with Alan Musgrave / Deborah G. Mayo

4. Theory confirmation and novel evidence

Error, tests, and theory confirmation / John Worrall

Ad hoc save of a theory of adhocness? : exchanges with John Worrall / Deborah G. Mayo

5. Induction and severe testing

Mill's sins or Mayo's errors? / Peter Achinstein

Sins of the epistemic probabilist : exchanges with Peter Achinstein / Deborah G. Mayo

6. Theory testing in economics and the error-statistical perspective / Aris Spanos

7. New perspectives on (some old) problems of frequentist statistics

Frequentist statistics as a theory of inductive inference / Deborah G. Mayo and David Cox

Objectivity and conditionality in frequentist inference / David Cox and Deborah G. Mayo

An error in the argument from conditionality and sufficiency to the likelihood principle / Deborah G. Mayo

On a new philosophy of frequentist inference : exchanges with David Cox and Deborah G. Mayo / Aris Spanos

8. Causal modeling, explanation and severe testing

Explanation and truth / Clark Glymour

Explanation and testing exchanges with Clark Glymour / Deborah G. Mayo

Graphical causal modeling and error statistics : exchanges with Clark Glymour / Aris Spanos

9. Error and legal epistemology

Anomaly of affirmative defenses / Larry Laudan

Error and the law : exchanges with Larry Laudan / Deborah G. Mayo.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-21103-4

0-511-70058-X

0-521-18025-2

1-282-46699-2

9786612466991

0-511-65800-1

0-511-65855-9

0-511-65669-6

0-511-65584-3

0-511-65724-2

OCLC:

700706187