Fact and Method : Explanation, Confirmation and Reality in the Natural and the Social Sciences / Richard W. Miller
1978, 1st edition. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #422783
Physical description; (611 pages), 24.5 cm. Contents; Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION. Replacing Positivism -- PART ONE: Explanation -- CHAPTER ONE. Explanation: The Covering-Law Model -- CHAPTER TWO. The Nature of Explanation -- CHAPTER THREE. Applications -- PART TWO: Confirmation -- CHAPTER FOUR. Confirmation as Causal Comparison -- CHAPTER FIVE. Deductivism: Plain and with Simplicity -- CHAPTER SIX. The New Positivism -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Anti-Bayes -- PART THREE: Realism -- CHAPTER EIGHT. The Issue of Realism -- CHAPTER NINE. Learning from Anti-Realism -- CHAPTER TEN. A Defense of Realism -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Quantum Reality -- INDEX. Subjects; Science Philosophy. Causation. Positivism. Realism. Science Philosophy. Realism In philosophy. Science Philosophy of. Explanation Epistemological aspects.
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