商品簡介
New edition of a reader containing 33 essays (10 new to this update), arranged in sections on science and pseudoscience, the natural and social sciences, explanation and law, theory and observation, confirmation and acceptance, and science and values. Each section begins with an introduction and ends with a case study, study questions, and a bibliography. A sampling of the selections: "Believing Where We Cannot Prove" (Philip Kitcher); "Are the Social Sciences Really Inferior?" (Fritz Machlup); and "The Pragmatics of Explanation" (Bas C. van Fraasen). Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
作者簡介
The late E. D. Klemke was professor of philosophy at Iowa State University.
Robert Hollinger is professor of philosophy at Iowa State University.
David Wyss Rudge is assistant professor of the philosophy of biology at Iowa State.
A. David Kline is provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville.
