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Underdetermination

An Essay on Evidence and the Limits of Natural Knowledge

Thomas Bonk (Autor)

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297 Seiten

2008
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4020-6898-0 (ISBN)

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Offers a study of the thesis that scientific theories are systematically 'underdetermined' by the data they account for. After analyzing the epistemological and ontological aspects of the topic in detail, and reviewing pertinent logical facts and selected scientific cases, this work examines the merits of arguments for and against the thesis.

This timely book offers a wide-ranging study of the thesis that scientific theories are systematically "underdetermined" by the data they account for. After analyzing the epistemological and ontological aspects of the topic in detail, and reviewing pertinent logical facts and selected scientific cases, the author carefully examines the merits of arguments for and against the thesis. Along the way, he investigates methodological proposals and recent theories of confirmation.

A Humean Predicament?.- Underdetermination Issues in the Exact Sciences.- Rationality, Method, and Evidence.- Competing Truths.- Problems of Representation.- Underdetermination and Indeterminacy.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	8.4.2008
Reihe/Serie	Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science ; 261
Zusatzinfo	XII, 297 p.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-4020-6898-0 / 1402068980
ISBN-13	978-1-4020-6898-0 / 9781402068980
Zustand	Neuware