Abstract
Analytical table of contents Preface Introduction: rationality Part I. Representing: 1. What is scientific realism? 2. Building and causing 3. Positivism 4. Pragmatism 5. Incommensurability 6. Reference 7. Internal realism 8. A surrogate for truth Part II. Intervening: 9. Experiment 10. Observation 11. Microscopes 12. Speculation, calculation, models, approximations 13. The creation of phenomena 14. Measurement 15. Baconian topics 16. Experimentation and scientific realism Further reading Index.
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- 22
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- 2
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- 299-299
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Davis Baird,
Ian Hacking
(1988).
Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science..
Noûs
, 22
(2)
, 299-299.
https://doi.org/10.2307/2215864
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- 10.2307/2215864