P. Kyle Stanford: Exceeding Our Grasp

Cover: 9780199751532 | Exceeding Our Grasp | P. Kyle Stanford | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2010

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Beschreibung

In Exceeding Our Grasp , Stanford argues that careful attention to the history of scientific investigation invites a challenge to this view that is not well represented in contemporary debates about the nature of the scientific enterprise.

Über den Autor

Kyle Stanford is at the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Realism, Pessimism, and Underdetermination

1.1 Scientific Realism: What's at Stake?

1.2 Problems for Pessimism and Underdetermination

1.3 Recurrent, Transient Underdetermination, and a New Induction over the History of Science

2. Chasing Duhem: The Problem of Unconceived Alternatives

2.1 Duhem's Worry: Eliminative Inferences and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives

2.2 Confirmation: Holism, Eliminative Induction, and Bayesianism

2.3 Pessimism Revisited

3. Darwin and Pangenesis: The Search for the Material Basis of Generation and Heredity

3.1 Preliminary Worries

3.2 Pangenesis: Darwin's "Mad Dream" and "Beloved Child"

3.3 Darwin's Failure to Grasp Galton's Common Cause Mechanism for Inheritance

4. Galton and the Strip Theory

4.1 The Transfusion Experiments: "A Dreadful Disappointment to Them Both"

4.2 Galton's Strip Theory and Its Maturational, Invariant Conception of Inheritance

4.3 Galton's Understanding of "Correlation" and "Variable Influences" in Development

5. August Weismann's Theory of the Germ-Plasm

5.1 German Biology at the End of the Nineteenth Century and Weismann's Theory of the Germ-Plasm

5.2 Germinal Specificity, the Search for a Mechanism of Cellular Differentiation and the Reservation of the Germ-Plasm

5.4 Productive and Expendable Germinal Resources

5.5 Conclusion: Lessons from History

6. History Revisited: Pyrrhic Victories for Scientific Realism

6.1 Realist Responses to the Historical Record

6.2 Once More into the Breach: The Pessimistic Induction

6.3 Reference without Descriptive Accuracy

6.4 Diluting Approximate Truth

7. Selective Confirmation and the Historical Record: "Another Such Victory over the Romans"?

7.1 Realism, Selective Confirmation, and Retrospective Judgments of Idleness

7.2 Theoretical Posits: They Work Hard for the Money

7.3 Trust and Betrayal

7.4 Structural Realism and Retention

7.5 Selective Confirmation: No Refuge for Realism

8. Science without Realism?

References

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2010
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780199751532
ISBN-10:	0199751536
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Stanford, P. Kyle
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	P. Kyle Stanford
Erscheinungsdatum:	29.04.2010
Gewicht:	0,412 kg