Nomic Truth Approximation Revisited

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Kuipers, Theo A. F. (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ; 399
• Θέματα: Philosophy and science.; Physics.; Law-Philosophy.; Law.; Aesthetics.; Chemistry-History.; Philosophy of Science.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; History of Chemistry.

This monograph presents new ideas in nomic truth approximation. It features original and revised papers from a (formal) philosopher of science who has studied the concept for more than 35 years. Over the course of time, the author's initial ideas evolved. He discovered a way to generalize his f...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Ch. 1. Background and Overview
• Part I: Basically closer to the nomic truth
• Ch. 2. Nomic Truth Approximation by Empirical Progress Revisited
• Ch. 3. Perspectives and guidelines for theories of (nomic) truth approximation by empirical progress
• Ch. 4. Models, postulates, and generalized nomic truth approximation
• Part II: Concretizations
• Ch. 5 Quantitative nomic truth approximation
• Ch. 6. Refined nomic truth approximation
• Ch. 7. Stratified nomic truth approximation
• Part III: Extensions. Ch. 8. Theories looking for domains. Nomic truth approximation by domain revision
• Ch. 9. Beauty, a road to the truth?
• Part IV: Reasoning around nomic truth approximation
• Ch. 10. Abduction aiming at empirical progress or even truth approximation: a challenge for computational modeling
• Ch. 11. Inference to the best theory, rather than inference to the best explanation. Kinds of abduction and induction
• Ch. 12. Pragmatic aspects of truth approximation
• Ch. 13. Empirical progress and nomic truth approximation by the 'Hypothetico-Probabilistic Method'
• Part V: Belief revision aiming at truth approximation. Ch. 14. Basic and refined nomic truth approximation by evidence-guided belief set revision
• Ch. 15. Dovetailing belief base revision with truth approximation
• Part VI: Conclusion: comparative constructive nomic realism. Ch. 16. Comparative realism as the best response to antirealism
• Acknowledgements
• Curriculum Vitae
• Index.