Underdetermination An Essay on Evidence and the Limits of Natural Knowledge /

Underdetermination. An Essay on Evidence and the Limits of Natural Knowledge is a wide-ranging study of the thesis that scientific theories are systematically "underdetermined" by the data they account for. This much-debated thesis is a thorn in the side of scientific realists and methodol...

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Main Author: Bonk, Thomas (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
Series:Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science ; 261
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • A Humean Predicament?
  • Underdetermination Issues in the Exact Sciences
  • Rationality, Method, and Evidence
  • Competing Truths
  • Problems of Representation
  • Underdetermination and Indeterminacy.