The book of evidence / / Peter Achinstein
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| Autore: |
Achinstein Peter
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| Titolo: |
The book of evidence / / Peter Achinstein
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (290 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 121/.65 |
| Soggetto topico: | Evidence |
| Logic | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | The dean's challenge -- Concepts of evidence, or how the electron got its charge -- Two major prbabilistic theories of evidence -- What's wrong with these probabilistic theories of evidence? -- Objective epistemic probability -- Evidence, high probability, and belief -- The explanatory connection -- Final definitions and realism -- Two paradoxes of evidence : ravens and grue -- Explanation versus prediction : which carries more evidential weight? -- Old-age and new-age holism -- Evidence for molecules : Jean Perrin and molecular reality -- Who really discovered the electron? |
| 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.: | 9910971653303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Oxford studies in philosophy of science.