The book of evidence [[electronic resource] /] / Peter Achinstein

• Autore: Achinstein Peter
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (299 p.)
• Disciplina: 121/.65
• Soggetto topico: Evidence; Logic
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""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""
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The book of evidence
• ISBN: 0-19-983302-8; 9786610427918; 1-280-42791-4; 1-4237-5646-0; 0-19-803291-9; 1-60256-488-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457499903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford studies in philosophy of science.