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Seeing Things The Philosophy of Reliable Observation

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Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

01.10.2013

Verlag

Oxford University Press

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300

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22,2/14,5/2 cm

Gewicht

476 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-19-930328-1

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

01.10.2013

Verlag

Oxford University Press

Seitenzahl

300

Maße (L/B/H)

22,2/14,5/2 cm

Gewicht

476 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-19-930328-1

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Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
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DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Seeing Things

    • Preface

    • Introduction

    • Chapter 1: For and Against Robustness

    • The 'No-Miracle' Argument for Robustness

    • Probabilistic Approaches to Robustness

    • Pragmatic Approaches to Robustness

    • Epistemic Independence Approaches to Robustness

    • Summary

    • Chapter 2: The Mesosome: a Case of Mistaken Observation

    • Introducing the Mesosome: Rasmussen and Culp

    • The Mesosome Experiments

    • Reliable Process Reasoning

    • Rasmussen's Indeterminism

    • Chapter 3: The WIMP: the Value of Model-Independence

    • Dark Matter and WIMPs

    • DAMA's Model-Independent Approach

    • Model-Dependent Approaches

    • An Historical Argument Against Robustness

    • Reliable Process Reasoning

    • Chapter 4: Perrin's Atoms and Molecules

    • Perrin's Table

    • The Viscosity of Gases

    • Brownian Movement: Vertical Distributions in Emulsions

    • Brownian Movement: Displacement, Rotation and Diffusion of Brownian Particles Taking Stock

    • Perrin's Realism about Molecules

    • Chapter 5: Dark Matter and Dark Energy

    • Dark Matter and the Bullet Cluster

    • Type Ia Supernovae and Dark Energy

    • Defeating Systematic Errors: the Smoking Gun

    • Robustness in the Dark Energy Case?

    • Chapter 6: Final Considerations Against Robustness

    • Independence and the Core Argument

    • The Need for Independence Does Not Equal the Need for Robustness The Converse to Robustness is Normally Resisted

    • The Corroborating Witness: Not a Case of Robustness

    • No Robustness Found in Mathematics and Logic

    • Robustness Fails to Ground Representational Accuracy

    • The Sociological Dimension of Robustness

    • Chapter 7: Robustness and Scientific Realism

    • The No-Miracle Argument for Scientific Realism

    • In Support of Theoretical Preservationism

    • Objections to Theoretical Preservationism

    • Realism, the Pessimistic Induction and Preservationism

    • The Improved Standards Response: 'Methodological Preservationism'

    • Conclusion

    • Appendix 1

    • Appendix 2

    • Appendix 3

    • Appendix 4

    • Bibliography

    • Index