Topics covered include a discussion of Glymour's bootstrapping theory of confirmation, the Bayesian perspective and the problems of old evidence, evidence and explanation, historical case studies, alternative views on testing theories, and testing particular theories, including psychoanalytic hypotheses and hypotheses about the completeness of the fossil record. As editor John Earman says in his preface, the papers presented in Testing Scientific Theories germinate so many new ideas that philosophers of science will reap the harvest for years to come. Building on his insights, modem Bayesians have developed an account of scientific inference that has attracted numerous champions as well as numerous detractors. The papers are rich in new perspectives, and. In a paper published posthumously in 1763, the Reverend Thomas Bayes made a seminal contribution to the understanding of analogical or inductive reasoning. These provocative essays by leading philosophers of science exemplify and illuminate the contemporary uncertainty and excitement in the field. The issues Glymour raises and his alternative "bootstrapping" method provided the focus for a conference sponsored by the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science and for this book. by John Earman (Editor) July 2021 Originally published 1992 First Edition Hardcover 85.00, £66.00 Paperback 49.95, £39.00 Series. His negative thesis is that the two most widely discussed accounts of the methodology of theory testing - hypothetico-deductivism and Bayesianism - are flawed. For example, when told that classical physics is not the place to look for clean and unproblematic examples of determinism, most philosophers react with a. Bangs, Crunches, Whimpers, and Shrieks: Singularities and Acausalities in Relativistic Spacetimes. Confirmation of scientific theories is the topic of Clark Glymour's important book Theory and Evidence,published in 1980. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. Since much of a scientist's work consists of constructing arguments to show how experiments and observation bear on a particular theory, the methodologies of theory testing and their philosophical underpinnings are of vital concern to philosophers of science. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Testing Scientific Theories was first published in 1984.
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