The book of evidence

The book of evidence / Peter Achinstein.

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Achinstein, Peter
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Series:Oxford studies in philosophy of science.
Subjects:
Evidence.
Logic.
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
Evidence
Logic
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • 1. The Dean's Challenge
  • 2. Concepts of Evidence, or How the Electron Got Its Charge
  • 3. Two Major Probabilistic Theories of Evidence
  • 4. What's Wrong with These Probabilistic Theories of Evidence?
  • 5. Objective Epistemic Probability
  • 6. Evidence, High Probability, and Belief
  • 7. The Explanatory Connection
  • 8. Final Definitions and Realism
  • 9. Two Paradoxes of Evidence: Ravens and Grue
  • 10. Explanation versus Prediction: Which Carries More Evidential Weight?
  • 11. Old-Age and New-Age Holism
  • 12. Evidence for Molecules: Jean Perrin and Molecular Reality13. Who Really Discovered the Electron?
  • Index
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