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Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science

  • Hacking I
(1983), NA-NA
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Analytical table of contents Preface Introduction: rationality Part I. Representing: 1. What is scientific realism? 2. Building and causing 3. Positivism 4. Pragmatism 5. Incommensurability 6. Reference 7. Internal realism 8. A surrogate for truth Part II. Intervening: 9. Experiment 10. Observation 11. Microscopes 12. Speculation, calculation, models, approximations 13. The creation of phenomena 14. Measurement 15. Baconian topics 16. Experimentation and scientific realism Further reading Index.

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Hacking, I. (1983). Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science. NA (Vol. NA, p. NA-NA).

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