Editor James Fetzer presents an analytical and historical introduction and a comprehensive bibliography together with selections of many of Carl G. Hempel's most important studies to give students and scholars an ideal opportunity to appreciate the enduring contributions of one of the most influential philosophers of science of the 20th century.
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There is work of the highest quality in this volume ... Perhaps the most valuable portion of this new anthology of Hempel's essays is the essays explicitly on historicist accounts of science. Mind
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James H. Fetzer, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, University of Minnesota, Duluth.
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It is a basic principle of scientific inquiry that no proposition and no theory is to be accepted without adequate grounds. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
statistical systematization, pretheoretical terms, interpretative sentences, consciously rational agent, deductivist construal, epistemological relativization, antecedently available vocabulary, strictly universal form, statistical probability statements, inductive acceptance, psychophysical association, successive flippings, given knowledge situation, scientific research behavior, antecedent vocabulary, narrowest reference class, explanans sentences, explanandum statement, high inductive probability, maximal specificity, repeatable kind, standard construal, explanatory ambiguity, explanandum sentence, extralogical terms Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Minnesota Studies, University of Minnesota Press, The Free Press, The Structure of Science, Cambridge University Press, The University of Chicago Press, Boston Studies, Ernest Nagel, Harvard University Press, Empirische Soziologie, Foundations of the Social Sciences, Open Court, The Journal of Philosophy, University of California Press, University of Pittsburgh Press, Logical Foundations of Probability, Foundations of Psychology, Karl Popper, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Herbert Feigl, Humanities Press, International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, John Dewey, Kegan Paul New!
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It is a basic principle of scientific inquiry that no proposition and no theory is to be accepted without adequate grounds. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
statistical systematization, pretheoretical terms, interpretative sentences, consciously rational agent, deductivist construal, epistemological relativization, antecedently available vocabulary, strictly universal form, statistical probability statements, inductive acceptance, psychophysical association, successive flippings, given knowledge situation, scientific research behavior, antecedent vocabulary, narrowest reference class, explanans sentences, explanandum statement, high inductive probability, maximal specificity, repeatable kind, standard construal, explanatory ambiguity, explanandum sentence, extralogical terms Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Minnesota Studies, University of Minnesota Press, The Free Press, The Structure of Science, Cambridge University Press, The University of Chicago Press, Boston Studies, Ernest Nagel, Harvard University Press, Empirische Soziologie, Foundations of the Social Sciences, Open Court, The Journal of Philosophy, University of California Press, University of Pittsburgh Press, Logical Foundations of Probability, Foundations of Psychology, Karl Popper, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Herbert Feigl, Humanities Press, International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, John Dewey, Kegan Paul New!
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- The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation (2nd edition) by Ernest Nagel on 10 pages
- Aspects of Scientific Explanation: And Other Essays in the Philosophy of Science by Carl G. Hempel on 8 pages
- Laws and Explanation in History by William H. Dray on 8 pages
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn on 6 pages
- Mind and Cosmos by Robert G. Colodny on 5 pages
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