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Error and Inference: Recent Exchanges on Experimental Reasoning, Reliability, and the Objectivity and Rationality of Science

By Aris Spanos , Deborah G. Mayo

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
0521880084, 9780521880084, 0521180252, 9780521180252
LCC
Q175.32.I54 E77 2009
Open Library ID
OL23202451M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2611698 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
439\439
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-06-26 00:49:36

Description

Although both philosophers and scientists are interested in how to obtain reliable knowledge in the face of error, there is a gap between their perspectives that has been an obstacle to progress. By means of a series of exchanges between the editors and leaders from philosophy of science, statistics, and economics, this volume offers a cumulative introduction connecting problems of traditional philosophy of science to problems of inference in statistical and empirical modeling practice. Philosophers of science and scientific practitioners are challenged to reevaluate the assumptions of their own theories - philosophical or methodological. Practitioners may better appreciate the foundational issues around which their questions revolve and thereby become better "applied philosophers." Conversely, new avenues emerge for finally solving recalcitrant philosophical problems of induction, explanation, and theory testing.

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