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Confirmation, Empirical Progress, and Truth Approximation: Essays in Debate with Theo Kuipers. Volume 1(83 Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities / Monographs-in-Debate)

Confirmation, Empirical Progress, and Truth Approximation: Essays in Debate with Theo Kuipers. Volume 1(83 Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities / Monographs-in-Debate)


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This book is the first of two volumes devoted to the work of Theo Kuipers, a leading Dutch philosopher of science. Philosophers and scientists from all over the world, thirty seven in all, comment on Kuipers' philosophy, and each of their commentaries is followed by a reply from Kuipers. The present volume focuses on Kuipers' views on confirmation, empirical progress, and truth approximation, as laid down in his From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism (Kluwer, 2000). In this book, Kuipers offered a synthesis of Carnap's and Hempel's confirmation theory on the one hand, and Popper's theory of truth approximation on the other. The key element of this synthesis is a sophisticated methodology, which enables the evaluation of theories in terms of their problems and successes (even if the theories are already falsified), and which also fits well with the claim that one theory is closer to the truth than another. Ilkka Niiniluoto, Patrick Maher, John Welch, Gerhard Schurz, Igor Douven, Bert Hamminga, David Miller, Johan van Benthem, Sjoerd Zwart, Thomas Mormann, Jesús Zamora Bonilla, Isabella Burger & Johannes Heidema, Joke Meheus, Hans Mooij, and Diderik Batens comment on these ideas of Kuipers, and many present their own account. The present book also contains a synopsis of From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism. It can be read independently of the second volume of Essays in Debate with Theo Kuipers, which is devoted to Kuipers' Structures in Science (2001).

Table of Contents:
Roberto FESTA, Atocha ALISEDA, Jeanne PEIJENBURG: Introduction Theo A.F. KUIPERS : The Threefold Evaluation of Theories: A Synopsis of From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism. On Some Relations between Confirmation, Empirical Progress, and Truth Approximation (2000) Confirmation and the HD Method Patrick MAHER: Qualitative Confirmation and the Ravens Paradox John R. WELCH: Gruesome Predicates Gerhard SCHURZ: Bayesian H-D Confirmation and Structuralistic Truthlikeness: Discussion and Comparison with the Relevant-Element and the Content-Part Approach Empirical Progress by Abduction and Induction Atocha ALISEDA: Lacunae, Empirical Progress and Semantic Tableaux Joke MEHEUS: Empirical Progress and Ampliative Adaptive Logics Diderik BATENS: On a Logic of Induction Truth Approximation by Abduction Ilkka NIINILUOTO: Abduction and Truthlikeness Igor DOUVEN: Empirical Equivalence, Explanatory Force, and the Inference to the Best Theory Truth Approximation by Empirical and Nonempirical Means Bert HAMMINGA: Constructive Realism and Scientific Progress David MILLER: Beauty, a Road to the Truth? Jesús P. ZAMORA BONILLA: Truthlikeness with a Human Face: On Some Connections between the Theory of Verisimilitude and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge Truthlikeness and Updating Sjoerd D. ZWART: Updating Theories Johan van BENTHEM: A Note on Modeling Theories Refined Truth Approximation Thomas MORMANN: Geometry of Logic and Truth Approximation Isabella C. BURGER, Johannes HEIDEMA: For Better, for Worse: Comparative Orderings on States and Theories Realism and Metaphors J.J.A. MOOIJ: Metaphor and Metaphysical Realism Roberto FESTA: On the Relations between (Neo-Classical) Philosophy of Science and Logic Bibliography of Theo A.F. KUIPERS Index of Names


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789042016385
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publisher Imprint: Editions Rodopi B.V.
  • Height: 230 mm
  • No of Pages: 541
  • Series Title: 83 Monographs-in-Debate
  • Sub Title: Essays in Debate with Theo Kuipers. Volume 1
  • Width: 155 mm
  • ISBN-10: 9042016388
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2005
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Series Title: 83 Monographs-in-Debate
  • Weight: 1034 gr


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