Error and Inference (eBook, ePUB)

Recent Exchanges on Experimental Reasoning, Reliability, and the Objectivity and Rationality of Science
Redaktion: Mayo, Deborah G.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Although both philosophers and scientists are interested in how to obtain reliable knowledge in the face of error, there is a gap between their perspectives that has been an obstacle to progress. By means of a series of exchanges between the editors and leaders from the philosophy of science, statistics and economics, this volume offers a cumulative introduction connecting problems of traditional philosophy of science to problems of inference in statistical and empirical modelling practice. Philosophers of science and scientific practitioners are challenged to reevaluate the assumptions of their own theories - philosophical or methodological. Practitioners may better appreciate the foundational issues around which their questions revolve and thereby become better 'applied philosophers'. Conversely, new avenues emerge for finally solving recalcitrant philosophical problems of induction, explanation and theory testing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511700583
• Artikelnr.: 52973985

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction and Background: 1. Philosophy of methodological
practice Deborah Mayo; 2. Error statistical philosophy Deborah Mayo and
Aris Spanos; Part II: 3. Severe testing, error statistics, and the growth
of theoretical knowledge Deborah Mayo; Part III: 4. Can scientific theories
be warranted? Alan Chalmers; 5. Can scientific theories be warranted with
severity? Exchanges with Alan Chalmers Deborah Mayo; Part IV: 6. Critical
rationalism, explanation and severe tests Alan Musgrave; 7. Towards
progressive critical rationalism: exchanges with Alan Musgrave Deborah
Mayo; Part V: 8. Error, tests and theory-confirmation John Worrall; 9. Has
Worrall saved his theory (on ad hoc saves) in a non ad hoc manner?
Exchanges with Worrall Deborah Mayo; Part VI: 10. Mill's sins, or Mayo's
errors? Peter Achinstein; 11. Sins of the Bayesian epistemologist:
exchanges with Achinstein Deborah Mayo; Part VII: 12. Theory testing in
economics and the error statistical perspective Aris Spanos; Part VIII: 13.
Frequentist statistics as a theory of inductive inference Deborah Mayo and
David Cox; 14. Objectivity and conditionality in Frequentist inference
David Cox and Deborah Mayo; 15. An error in the argument from WCP and S to
the SLP Deborah Mayo; 16. On a new philosophy of Frequentist inference:
exchanges with Cox and Mayo Aris Spanos; Part IX: 17. Explanation and truth
Clark Glymour; 18. Explanation and testing: exchanges with Glymour Deborah
Mayo; 19. Graphical causal modeling and error statistics: exchanges with
Glymour Aris Spanos; Part X: 20. Legal epistemology: the anomaly of
affirmative defenses Larry Laudan; 21. Error and the law: exchanges with
Laudan Deborah Mayo.