Science and Scepticism /

Science and Scepticism / / John W.N. Watkins.

This book contains important technical innovations, including comparative measures for the testable content, depth, and unity of scientific theories.Originally published in 1984.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print bo...

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Watkins, John W.N.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1984
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 516
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t CONTENTS --   |t PREFACE --   |t ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --   |t REFERENCES AND ABBREVIATIONS --   |t Part One --   |t Chapter 1. Scepticism and Irrationalism --   |t Chapter 2. Probabilism --   |t Chapter 3. The Inductive Ascent --   |t Part Two --   |t Chapter 4. The Optimum Aim for Science --   |t Chapter 5. The Optimum Aim Elucidated --   |t Chapter 6. Deductivism and Statistical Explanation --   |t Chapter 7. The Empirical Basis --   |t Chapter 8. Corroboration --   |t Chapter 9. Epilogue --   |t BIBLIOGRAPHY --   |t Index of Symbols --   |t GENERAL INDEX 
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588 0 |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023) 
650 7 |a SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects.  |2 bisacsh 
653 |a A priori and a posteriori. 
653 |a A priori probability. 
653 |a Ad hoc. 
653 |a Ad hominem. 
653 |a Agnosticism. 
653 |a Almost surely. 
653 |a Analytic–synthetic distinction. 
653 |a Anti-realism. 
653 |a Antireductionism. 
653 |a Asymmetry. 
653 |a Atomism. 
653 |a Axiom. 
653 |a Bayesian probability. 
653 |a Bayesian statistics. 
653 |a Bayesian. 
653 |a Begging the question. 
653 |a Certainty. 
653 |a Circular reasoning. 
653 |a Classical logic. 
653 |a Classical physics. 
653 |a Contradiction. 
653 |a David Hume. 
653 |a Deductive reasoning. 
653 |a Deductive-nomological model. 
653 |a Determinism. 
653 |a Dialectician. 
653 |a Edmund Husserl. 
653 |a Explanation. 
653 |a Explanatory power. 
653 |a Extrapolation. 
653 |a Fair coin. 
653 |a Fallibilism. 
653 |a Falsifiability. 
653 |a Falsity. 
653 |a Fideism. 
653 |a First principle. 
653 |a Form of life (philosophy). 
653 |a Free parameter. 
653 |a Good and evil. 
653 |a Hilary Putnam. 
653 |a Holism. 
653 |a Hypothesis. 
653 |a Idealism. 
653 |a Impenetrability. 
653 |a Inductive reasoning. 
653 |a Inductivism. 
653 |a Inference. 
653 |a Infinite regress. 
653 |a Instance (computer science). 
653 |a Is–ought problem. 
653 |a J. L. Austin. 
653 |a Logical reasoning. 
653 |a Lottery paradox. 
653 |a Magical thinking. 
653 |a Materialism. 
653 |a Michael Polanyi. 
653 |a Modern physics. 
653 |a Modus tollens. 
653 |a Mutual exclusivity. 
653 |a Neutral monism. 
653 |a Occam's razor. 
653 |a Ontology. 
653 |a Ordinary language philosophy. 
653 |a Ought implies can. 
653 |a Paradox. 
653 |a Persuasive definition. 
653 |a Phenomenalism. 
653 |a Philosopher. 
653 |a Phrenology. 
653 |a Possible world. 
653 |a Posterior probability. 
653 |a Pre-established harmony. 
653 |a Prediction. 
653 |a Predictive power. 
653 |a Premise. 
653 |a Probabilism. 
653 |a Probability. 
653 |a Problem of induction. 
653 |a Pseudoscience. 
653 |a Pyrrhonism. 
653 |a Rationality. 
653 |a Reality. 
653 |a Reason. 
653 |a Received view. 
653 |a Reductionism. 
653 |a Relativism. 
653 |a Requirement. 
653 |a Richard Jeffrey. 
653 |a Scientific realism. 
653 |a Scientific theory. 
653 |a Sensationalism. 
653 |a Skepticism. 
653 |a Suggestion. 
653 |a Tautology (rhetoric). 
653 |a Testability. 
653 |a Theory. 
653 |a Transcendental arguments. 
653 |a Truism. 
653 |a Verisimilitude. 
653 |a Wrong direction. 
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