Constructive empiricism: epistemology and the philosophy of science
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2010
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverz. S. 225 - 232 Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | X, 237 S. 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780230247536 0230247539 |
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IX
1 ARGUMENTS CONCEMING CONSTRUCTIVE EMPIRICISM 1
1.1 THE AIM OF SCIENCE 1
1.2 THE CONSTRUCTIVE EMPIRICIST AND HIS CRITICS 6
1.2.1 A TAXONOMY OF OBJECTIONS 6
1.2.2 OBSERVATION AND DETECTION 9
1.2.3 EXTRA TERRESTRIALS AND EXTRA-TERRESTRIALS 14
1.3 THE NEW EPISTEMOLOGY 20
1.3.1 THE ENGLISH AND PRUSSIAN MODELS OF RATIONALITY 20
1.3.2 RELATIVISM, SCEPTICISM AND VOLUNTARISM 23
1.4 SUMMARY 27
2 EPISTEMIC VOLUNTARISM: RATIONALITY, LNFERENCE AND EMPIRICISM 30
2.1 MOTIVATING VOLUNTARISM 30
2.2 DIACHRONIC COHERENCE AND THE PRINCIPLE OF REFLECTION 34
2.2.1 THE DIACHRONIC DUTCH-BOOK 34
2.2.2 FROM DUTCH-BOOKS TO COGNITIVE CALIBRATION 37
2.2.3 GREEK SAILORS, DRUNK DRIVERS AND OTHER EPISTEMIC VILLAINS 41
2.2.4 JUDGEMENTS ABOUT COMMITMENTS 46
2.3 TRADITIONAL EPISTEMOLOGY: FALSE HOPES AND BAD LOTS 49
2.3.1 THE JUSTIFICATION OF INDUCTION 49
2.3.2 RELIABILISM AND SCEPTICISM 53
2.3.3 THE BEST OF A BAD LOT 58
2.3.4 BACKGROUND THEORIES AND THE RANKING OF HYPOTHESES 65
2.3.5 PROBABILISTIC AND NON-PROBABILISTIC INFERENCES 67
2.4 TAKING A STANCE 72
2.4.1 THE EMPIRICIST DILEMMA 72
2.4.2 RATIONALITY AND RELATIVISM 78
2.5 SUMMARY 84
3 AGAINST EPISTEMIC VOLUNTARISM: MUSGRAVE, MODALITY AND MATHEMATICS 87
3.1 THE PROBLEM(S) OF INTERNAL COHERENCE 87
VII
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VIII CONTENTS
3.2 MUSGRAVE S OBJECTION REVISITED 90
3.2.1 THE UNOBSERVABILITY OF UNOBSERVABLES 90
3.2.2 ON THE SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS OF OBSERVABILITY 93
3.2.3 A QUESTION OF SCOPE 96
3.3 LADYMAN S DILEMMA: COUNTERFACTUALS, CONTEXTS AND CONVENTIONS 98
3.3.1 THE PROBLEM OF MODALITY 98
3.3.2 FROM MODAL REALISM TO STRUCTURAL REALISM 100
3.3.3 DEFLATIONISM AND VOLUNTARISM ABOUT MODALITY 105 3.4 CONSTRUCTIVE
EMPIRICISM AND MATHEMATICAL NOMINALISM 112
3.4.1 ABSTRACT MATHEMATICAL OBJECTS 112
3.4.2 CONSTRUCTIVE EMPIRICISM AND MATHEMATICAL FICTIONALISM 117
3.4.3 PRIMITIVE CONSISTENCY AND EXPRESSIVE COMPLETENESS 124
3.4.4 THE VICES OF VOLUNTARISM 131
3.5 SUMMARY 133
3.6 APPENDIX - AN EXPANDED MODALLANGUAGE 136
4 ON THE NATURE AND NONNS OF ACCEPTANCE AND BELIEF 144
4.1 ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE ON SCIENTIFIC ATTITUDES 144
4.2 DECIDING TO ACCEPT, DECIDING TO BELIEVE 148
4.2.1 A LOT OF FUSS ABOUT FUNCTIONALISM 148
4.2.2 THE INDIVIDUATION OF INTENTIONAL STATES 157
4.2.3 CONTRADICTION AND SCIENCE 167
4.3 EMPIRICISM AND AGNOSTICISM 179
4.3.1 THE ACCEPTANCE SOLUTION 179
4.3.2 COMMITTED MODAL AGNOSTICISM 185
4.3.3 ACCEPTANCE AND ANTI-REALISM IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF MODALITY 193
4.3.4 A SHORT NOTE ON MATHEMATICAL NOMINALISM 208
4.4 SUMMARY 210
CONCLUSION: WHAT LS THIS THING CALLED CONSTRUCTIVE EMPIRICISM ? 212
NOTES 216
REFERENCES 225
INDEX 233
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