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[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Testing scientific theories [[electronic resource] /] / edited by John Earman"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1983"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"0-8166-8184-8"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (494 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; ; v. 10"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"501 s"]
[{"$nulls":4},"501"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Theory (Philosophy)"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Science - Philosophy"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Evidence"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Most papers first presented at a research conference held at the Minnesota Center for the Philosophy of Science in June 1980."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and indexes."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Contents; I . Glymour's Bootstrapping Theory of Confirmation; II. The Bayesian Perspective and the Problem of Old Evidence; III. Evidence and Explanation; IV. Historical Case Studies; V. Some Alternative Views on Testing Theories; VI. Testing Particular Theories; Author Index; Subject Index"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","Testing Scientific Theories was first published in 1984. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.Since much of a scientist's work consists of constructing arguments to show how experiments and observation bear on a particular theory, the methodologies of theory testing and their philosophical underpinnings are of vital concern to philosophers of science. Confirmation of scientific theories is the topic of Clark Glymour's important book Theory and"]