Science and Partial Truth
A Unitary Approach to Models and Scientific Reasoning
Published on 20. November 2003
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-19-515651-5 (ISBN)
Description
Da Costa and French explore the consequences of adopting a "pragmatic" notion of truth in the philosophy of science--in other words, accepting a theory as valid when it may only be partially true rather than wholly true. Their framework sheds new light on issues dealing with belief, theory acceptance, and the realism-antirealism debate, as well as the nature of scientific models and their heuristic development.
Reviews / Votes
This is an important book. It summarizes and connects significant recent developments in several areas of philosophy, and develops a coherent approach to a well defined and important problem. * The Review of Metaphysics *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
596 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-515651-5 (9780195156515)
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Newton C. A. da Costa | Steven French
Science and Partial Truth
A Unitary Approach to Models and Scientific Reasoning
E-Book
09/2003
1st Edition
OUP USA
€67.49
Available for download
Newton C. A. da Costa | Steven French
Science and Partial Truth
A Unitary Approach to Models and Scientific Reasoning
E-Book
09/2003
1st Edition
OUP USA
€67.49
Available for download
Persons
Newton da Costa is a Member of the Research Group on Logic and Foundations at the Institute of Advanced Study of the University of Sao Paolo.
Steven French is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds.
Steven French is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds.