In Exceeding Our Grasp , Stanford argues that careful attention to the history of scientific investigation invites a challenge to this view that is not well represented in contemporary debates about the nature of the scientific enterprise.
In Exceeding Our Grasp , Stanford argues that careful attention to the history of scientific investigation invites a challenge to this view that is not well represented in contemporary debates about the nature of the scientific enterprise.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Kyle Stanford is at the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine
Inhaltsangabe
* 1. Realism, Pessimism, and Underdetermination * 1.1 Scientific Realism: What's at Stake? * 1.2 Problems for Pessimism and Underdetermination * 1.3 Recurrent, Transient Underdetermination, and a New Induction over the History of Science * 2. Chasing Duhem: The Problem of Unconceived Alternatives * 2.1 Duhem's Worry: Eliminative Inferences and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives * 2.2 Confirmation: Holism, Eliminative Induction, and Bayesianism * 2.3 Pessimism Revisited * 3. Darwin and Pangenesis: The Search for the Material Basis of Generation and Heredity * 3.1 Preliminary Worries * 3.2 Pangenesis: Darwin's "Mad Dream" and "Beloved Child" * 3.3 Darwin's Failure to Grasp Galton's Common Cause Mechanism for Inheritance * 4. Galton and the Strip Theory * 4.1 The Transfusion Experiments: "A Dreadful Disappointment to Them Both" * 4.2 Galton's Strip Theory and Its Maturational, Invariant Conception of Inheritance * 4.3 Galton's Understanding of "Correlation" and "Variable Influences" in Development * 5. August Weismann's Theory of the Germ-Plasm * 5.1 German Biology at the End of the Nineteenth Century and Weismann's Theory of the Germ-Plasm * 5.2 Germinal Specificity, the Search for a Mechanism of Cellular Differentiation and the Reservation of the Germ-Plasm * 5.4 Productive and Expendable Germinal Resources * 5.5 Conclusion: Lessons from History * 6. History Revisited: Pyrrhic Victories for Scientific Realism * 6.1 Realist Responses to the Historical Record * 6.2 Once More into the Breach: The Pessimistic Induction * 6.3 Reference without Descriptive Accuracy * 6.4 Diluting Approximate Truth * 7. Selective Confirmation and the Historical Record: "Another Such Victory over the Romans"? * 7.1 Realism, Selective Confirmation, and Retrospective Judgments of Idleness * 7.2 Theoretical Posits: They Work Hard for the Money * 7.3 Trust and Betrayal * 7.4 Structural Realism and Retention * 7.5 Selective Confirmation: No Refuge for Realism * 8. Science without Realism? * References * Index
* 1. Realism, Pessimism, and Underdetermination * 1.1 Scientific Realism: What's at Stake? * 1.2 Problems for Pessimism and Underdetermination * 1.3 Recurrent, Transient Underdetermination, and a New Induction over the History of Science * 2. Chasing Duhem: The Problem of Unconceived Alternatives * 2.1 Duhem's Worry: Eliminative Inferences and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives * 2.2 Confirmation: Holism, Eliminative Induction, and Bayesianism * 2.3 Pessimism Revisited * 3. Darwin and Pangenesis: The Search for the Material Basis of Generation and Heredity * 3.1 Preliminary Worries * 3.2 Pangenesis: Darwin's "Mad Dream" and "Beloved Child" * 3.3 Darwin's Failure to Grasp Galton's Common Cause Mechanism for Inheritance * 4. Galton and the Strip Theory * 4.1 The Transfusion Experiments: "A Dreadful Disappointment to Them Both" * 4.2 Galton's Strip Theory and Its Maturational, Invariant Conception of Inheritance * 4.3 Galton's Understanding of "Correlation" and "Variable Influences" in Development * 5. August Weismann's Theory of the Germ-Plasm * 5.1 German Biology at the End of the Nineteenth Century and Weismann's Theory of the Germ-Plasm * 5.2 Germinal Specificity, the Search for a Mechanism of Cellular Differentiation and the Reservation of the Germ-Plasm * 5.4 Productive and Expendable Germinal Resources * 5.5 Conclusion: Lessons from History * 6. History Revisited: Pyrrhic Victories for Scientific Realism * 6.1 Realist Responses to the Historical Record * 6.2 Once More into the Breach: The Pessimistic Induction * 6.3 Reference without Descriptive Accuracy * 6.4 Diluting Approximate Truth * 7. Selective Confirmation and the Historical Record: "Another Such Victory over the Romans"? * 7.1 Realism, Selective Confirmation, and Retrospective Judgments of Idleness * 7.2 Theoretical Posits: They Work Hard for the Money * 7.3 Trust and Betrayal * 7.4 Structural Realism and Retention * 7.5 Selective Confirmation: No Refuge for Realism * 8. Science without Realism? * References * Index
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