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""During the years I have studied Achinstein's essays and books in some detail. I have always learned from them and have found them Solid argument, historical sensitivity, and conceptual novelty. He is clearly one of the few philosophers whose work is not (and cannot be) missed by philosophers of science of all generations."-Stathis Psillos, Department of Philosophy and History of Science, University of Athens" "The essays in this volume address three fundamental questions in the philosophy of science: What is required for some fact to be evidence for a scientific hypothesis? What does it mean to say that a scientist or a theory explains a phenomenon? Should scientific theories that postulate "unobservable" entities such as electrons be construed realistically as aiming to correctly describe a world underlying what is directly observable, or should such theories be understood as aiming to correctly describe only the observable world?" "Distinguished philosopher of science Peter Achinstein provides answers to each of these questions in essays written over a period of more than 40 years. The present volume brings together 15 of his important previously published essays, allowing the
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Peter Achinstein
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781282578296
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Science, Language Learning
