Jody Azzouni

Knowledge and Reference in Empirical Science

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Produktbeschreibung

A fascinating study of the bounds between science and language; knowledge and truth. Jody Azzouni explores how the language of science transforms our fragmented investigations of the world into a unitary and seamless discourse.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 162mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9780415223836
• ISBN-10: 0415223830
• Artikelnr.: 21510098

Autorenporträt

Jody Azzouni is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. He is the author of Metaphysical Myths, Mathematical Practice: The Ontology and Epistemology of the Exact Sciences.

Inhaltsangabe

General introduction Part I Procedural foundationalism 1 Introduction to
Part I 2 Program and scope 3 Reductionism, confirmation holism, theoretical
deductivism 4 Some observations on reductionism and the "autonomy" of the
special sciences 5 Some comments on the philosophical implications of the
use of idealizations in science 6 Gross regularities 7 Procedures and
perceptual procedures 8 Shedding perceptual procedures 9 Conclusion to Part
I Part II Two-tiered coherentism 1 Introduction to Part II 2 Evidential
centrality 3 Ob-similar extensions and ob*-similar extensions 4
Ob-similarity, observational regularities, reasons for incommensurability 5
Kuhnian considerations and the accumulation of knowledge 6 Perceptual
impermeability and biotechnical incommensurability 7 Methodological
observations about epistemology, scepticism and truth Part III Permuting
reference 1 Introduction to Part III 2 Formal considerations 3 Quine's
version 4 Field's version 5 Putnam's version 6 The ontological status of
causality 7 Some puzzles about reference 8 Conclusion to Part III Part IV
The transcendence of reference 1 Introduction to Part IV 2 Troubles for
naive naturalism 3 The elusivity of reference 4 Causality and reference: an
analysis 5 Transcending procedures 6 Transcendence and its discontents