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Knowing Science
Engelsk Hardback
Knowing Science
Engelsk Hardback

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In Knowing Science, Alexander Bird presents an epistemology of science that rejects empiricism and gives a central place to the concept of knowledge. Science aims at knowledge and progresses when it adds to the stock of knowledge. That knowledge is social knowing--it is known by the scientific community as a whole. Evidence is that from which knowledge can be obtained by inference. From this, it follows that evidence is knowledge, and is not limited to perception, nor to observation. Observation supplies evidence that is basic relative to a field of enquiry and can be highly non-perceptual. Theoretical knowledge is typically gained by inference to the only explanation, in which competing plausible hypotheses are falsified by the evidence. In cases where not all competing hypotheses are refuted, scientific hypotheses are not known but instead possess varying degrees of plausibility. Plausibilities in the light of the evidence are probabilities and link eliminative explanationism to Bayesian conditionalization. Bird argues that scientific realism and anti-realism as global metascientific claims should be rejected-the track record gives us only local metascientific claims.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
304
ISBN-13:
9780199606658
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
019960665X
Udg. Dato:
6 okt 2022
Længde:
23mm
Bredde:
163mm
Højde:
240mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato:
6 okt 2022
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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