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SCIENCE AND PARTIAL TRUTH
A UNITARY APPROACH TO MODELS AND SCIENTIFIC REASONING |
| By: |
Newton C. A. da Costa, Steven French |
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| ISBN 10: |
019515651X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780195156515 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
18 September, 2003 |
| Series: |
Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Science |
| Pages: |
268 |
| Description: |
Da Costa and French explore the consequences of adopting a 'pragmatic' notion of truth in the philosophy of science. Their framework sheds new light on issues to do with belief, theory acceptance, and the realism-antirealism debate, as well as the nature of scientific models and their heuristic development. |
| Synopsis: |
Da Costa and French explore the consequences of adopting a "pragmatic" notion of truth in the philosophy of science-in other words, accepting a theory as valid when it may only be partially true rather than wholly true. Their framework sheds new light on issues dealing with belief, theory acceptance, and the realism-antirealism debate, as well as the nature of scientific models and their heuristic development. |
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US |
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Oxford University Press Inc |
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