Jody Azzouni

Knowledge and Reference in Empirical Science (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Knowledge and Reference in Empirical Science is a fascinating study of the bounds between science and language: in what sense, and of what, does science provide knowledge? Is science an instrument only distantly related to what's real? Can the language of science be used to adequately describe the truth?In this book, Jody Azziouni investigates the technology of science - the actual forging and exploiting of causal links, between ourselves and what we endeavor to know and understand.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134593422
• Artikelnr.: 40464862

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