Experience, Reality, and Scientific Explanation Workshop in Honour of Merrilee and Wesley Salmon / edited by Maria Carla Galavotti, A. Pagnini.

The papers collected here comprise the proceedings of a Workshop in honor ofMerrilee and Wes Salmon, held in Florence on May 17-18, 1996. The aim of the meeting was to pay homage to these two American scholars, whose contact with Italian and European Universities and Institutes had a major influence...

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Other Authors: Galavotti, Maria Carla (Editor), Pagnini, A. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1999.
Edition:1st ed. 1999.
Series:The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, A Series of Books in Philosophy of Science, Methodology, Epistemology, Logic, History of Science, and Related Fields, 61
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Table of Contents:
  • The Reception of German Scientific Philosophy in North America: 1930–1962
  • Immanenzgedanken and Knowledge as Unification. Scientific Philosophy and Philosophy of Science
  • Wesley Salmon on Explanation, Probability and Rationality
  • Bayesian Confirmation
  • The Great Illusion: Ignorance, Informational Cascades, and the Persistence of Unpopular Norms
  • On Hume’s Experimental Atheism
  • It Happened at the Same Time: Salmon and the Conventionality of Distant Simultaneity
  • On Various Realisms in Quantum Theory
  • Wrongful Life: Logico-Empiricist Philosophy of Biology
  • Comments
  • Words of Appreciation.