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UNINA9910779062203321 |
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Autore |
Van Wienen Mark W |
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American socialist triptych : the literary-political work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W.E.B. Du Bois / / Mark W. Van Wienen |
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Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2012 |
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1-283-37505-2 |
9786613375056 |
0-472-02808-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (401 p.) |
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HU 1075 |
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HU 3535 |
HU 5289 |
HU 8415 |
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Socialism and literature - United States - History - 20th century |
Socialism and literature - United States - History - 19th century |
Socialism - United States - History - 20th century |
Socialism - United States - History - 19th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Looking backward, working forward : fin de siècle socialism according to Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The multiplicity of American socialism : Upton Sinclair and the "party of agitation," 1901-1914 -- The feminism of American socialism : Gilman and company at work, in love, and on trial -- Within the veil : W.E.B. Du Bois and the Second Internationale, 1909-1919 -- Call and response : the politics of literary utopianism and realism -- Utopia and apocalypse : social democratic fiction and the Great War -- Heaven and earth : revelations and doubt in the Sacco-Vanzetti decade -- Once more unto the breach : social democratic advance and retreat in the Red decade -- Reading The jungle at breakfast : the new deal and other social democratic legacies. |
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UNINA9910784575403321 |
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Autore |
Achinstein Peter |
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The book of evidence [[electronic resource] /] / Peter Achinstein |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001 |
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0-19-983302-8 |
9786610427918 |
1-280-42791-4 |
1-4237-5646-0 |
0-19-803291-9 |
1-60256-488-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (299 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford studies in philosophy of science |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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""Contents""; ""1. The Dean's Challenge""; ""2. Concepts of Evidence, or How the Electron Got Its Charge""; ""3. Two Major Probabilistic Theories of Evidence""; ""4. What's Wrong with These Probabilistic Theories of Evidence?""; ""5. Objective Epistemic Probability""; ""6. Evidence, High Probability, and Belief""; ""7. The Explanatory Connection""; ""8. Final Definitions and Realism""; ""9. Two Paradoxes of Evidence: Ravens and Grue""; ""10. Explanation versus Prediction: Which Carries More Evidential Weight?""; ""11. Old-Age and New-Age Holism"" |
""12. Evidence for Molecules: Jean Perrin and Molecular Reality""""13. Who Really Discovered the Electron?""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W"" |
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What is required for something to be evidence for an hypothesis? In this text, Peter Achinstein, introduces here a basic concept of potential evidence which is characterised using a novel epistemic interpretation of probability. |
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