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In this, the first book devoted to Peter Achinstein's influential work in philosophy of science, twenty distinguished philosophers, including four Lakatos award winners, address various aspects of Achinstein's influential views on the nature of scientific evidence, scientific explanation, and scientific realism. It includes short essays by Steve Gimbel and Jeff Maynes, Nancy Cartwright, Jordi Cat, Victor DiFate, Jerry Doppelt, Adam Goldstein, Philip Kitcher, Fred Kronz, Deborah Mayo, Greg Morgan, Helen Longino, John Norton, Michael Ruse, Bas van Fraassen, Stathis Psillos, Larry Laudan, Richard Richards, Kent Staley, and Jim Woodward with replies to each contributor from Peter Achinstein. Readers will come away with an understanding of the current debate in multiple areas of philosophy of science and how various contemporary issues are connected.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Mathematics & science Science: general issues Philosophy of science

• Full title: Philosophy of Science Matters
• Subtitle: The Philosophy of Peter Achinstein
• Author: Gregory J. Morgan
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 312
• EAN: 9780199738625
• ISBN: 0199738629
• ID: 04535329
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 588 g
• Dimensions: 240 × 178 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 09. June 2011

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