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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Rationality and Reality
    sub title: Conversations with Alan Musgrave
  name:
    name part: Cheyne, Colin.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Worrall, John.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 326 p. online resource.
  abstract: Alan Musgrave has consistently defended two positions that he regards as commonsensical – critical realism and critical rationalism. In defence of critcal realism he argues for the objective existence of the external world as opposed to idealism, as well as arguing for scientific realism against all anti-realist accounts of science. His critical rationalism is drawn from the work of Karl Popper and stands opposed to inductivist and irrationalist methodologies. In defence of these positions, Musgrave’s writings have covered a wide range of topics in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, history of science, theories of truth, and economic theory. In this volume a group of internationally-renowned authors discuss themes that are relevant in one way or another to Musgrave’s work. This is not intended as a standard celebratory festschrift but rather as a new examination of topics of current interest in philosophy. The contributory essays are followed by responses from Alan Musgrave himself.
  table of contents: Where Does the Burden of Theory Lie? -- Testimony, Induction and Reasonable Belief -- Theory-Confirmation and History -- Critical Rationalism and its Failure to Withstand Critical Scrutiny -- Methodological Rules, Rationality, and Truth -- Why is it Rational to Believe Scientific Theories are True? -- Thinking About the Ultimate Argument for Realism -- The Unseen World -- Why Alan Musgrave Should Become an Essentialist -- The Metaphysics of Realism and Structural Realism -- Scientific Realism and Mathematical Nominalism: A Marriage Made in Hell -- A Methodological Critique of the Semantic Conception of Theories -- A Refutation of Peircean Idealism -- Historiography as a Hypothetico-Deductive Science: A Criticism of Methodological Historism -- Ptolemy's Musical Models for Mind-Maps and Star-Maps -- Responses.
  note: edited by Colin Cheyne, John Worrall.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Epistemology
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy and science
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Epistemology
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Science
  classification: BD143-237
  classification: 120
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      title: Springer eBooks
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