Essays on Realism and RationalismRodopi, 1999 - 367 sivua A collection of essays (1971-1999) centering on the philosophy of science. Musgrave, a philosopher whose academic affiliations are not given, defends realism, partly from an appeal to common sense. He discusses anti-realist trends in Anglo-American philosophy (Wittgenstein, instrumentalism, construc |
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The Ultimate Argument for Scientific Realism | 52 |
Wittgensteinian Instrumentalism | 71 |
71 | 106 |
Realism and Idealisation | 131 |
Unreal Assumptions in Economic Theory | 154 |
NOAs Ark Fine For Realism | 162 |
Examples and the superiority of deductivist reconstructions | 302 |
Some objections considered | 306 |
Critical Rationalism | 314 |
The problem of induction | 315 |
Nonsolutions | 316 |
induction is a myth | 318 |
abandon justificationism | 319 |
Critical Rationalism CR | 322 |
Conceptual Idealism and Stoves Gem | 177 |
The TScheme Plus Epistemic Truth Equals Idealism | 185 |
Falsification and its Critics | 193 |
154 | 196 |
Logical versus Historical Theories of Confirmation | 229 |
Facts and Values in Science Studies | 252 |
Getting values from factshistorical methodologies | 258 |
Getting values from facts testing methodologies | 267 |
Getting facts from values historical explanations | 272 |
Deductivism versus Psychologism | 279 |
Justifying deduction and induction | 288 |
Deductive Heuristics | 297 |
Early attempts why they failed and positivist Orthodoxy | 300 |
Does CR smuggle in induction A? | 326 |
Does CR smuggle in induction B? | 329 |
Conjectural knowledge | 331 |
Millers mess | 332 |
Bartleys comprehensively critical rationalism CCR | 336 |
Critical rationalism and logical omniscience | 338 |
Experience perceptual belief and Principle E | 341 |
An evolutionary argument for Principle E | 343 |
Personal knowledge and the division of epistemic labour | 347 |
References | 351 |
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Sivu 3 - But to derive two or three general Principles of Motion from Phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the Properties and Actions of all corporeal Things follow from those manifest Principles, would be a very great step in Philosophy, though the Causes of those Principles were not yet...
Sivu 3 - But to derive two or three general principles of motion from phaenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, would be a very great step in philosophy, though the causes of those principles were not yet discovered. And therefore I scruple not to propose the principles of motion above mentioned, they being of very general extent, and leave their causes to be found out.
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