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Testing Scientific Theories

Testing Scientific Theories

Earman, John

Paperback

Series: Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Book 10

History & Philosophy of Science

ISBN10: 0816611599
ISBN13: 9780816611591
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: Feb 14 1984
Pages: 496
Weight: 1.43
Height: 1.03 Width: 6.47 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Testing Scientific Theories was first published in 1984. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

Since much of a scientist's work consists of constructing arguments to show how experiments and observation bear on a particular theory, the methodologies of theory testing and their philosophical underpinnings are of vital concern to philosophers of science. Confirmation of scientific theories is the topic of Clark Glymour's important book Theory and Evidence, published in 1980. His negative thesis is that the two most widely discussed accounts of the methodology of theory testing - hypothetico-deductivism and Bayesianism - are flawed. The issues Glymour raises and his alternative bootstrapping method provided the focus for a conference sponsored by the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science and for this book. As editor John Earman says in his preface, the papers presented in Testing Scientific Theories germinate so many new ideas that philosophers of science will reap the harvest for years to come.

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