Scientific Evidence

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Philosophical Theories and Applications

By: Peter Achinstein (Editor)

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Hardcover | 14 August 2005

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Physicists think they have discovered the top quark. Biologists believe in evolution. But what precisely constitutes evidence for such claims, and why? Scientists often disagree with one another over whether or to what extent some evidence counts in favor of a theory because they are operating with different concepts of scientific evidence. These concepts need to be critically explored. Peter Achinstein has gathered some prominent philosophers and historians of science for critical and lively discussions of both general questions about the meaning of evidence and specific ones about evidence for particular scientific theories.

Contributors: Peter Achinstein, The Johns Hopkins University; Steven Gimbel, Gettysburg College; Gary Hatfield, University of Pennsylvania; Frederick M. Kronz, University of Texas--Austin; Helen Longino, University of Minnesota; Deborah G. Mayo, Virginia Tech; Amy L. McLaughlin, Florida Atlantic University; John Norton, University of Pittsburgh; Lawrence M. Principe, The Johns Hopkins University; Richard Richards, University of Alabama; Alex Rosenberg, Duke University; Sherrilyn Roush, Rice University; Laura J. Snyder, St. Johns University; Kent Staley, St. Louis University.

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"Leading philosopher of science Peter Achinstein has put together a first-rate collection on the problem of scientific evidence."--Michael Ruse, Florida State University"

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A little survey of induction	p. 9
Four mistaken theses about evidence, and how to correct them	p. 35
Restoring ambiguity to Achinstein's account of evidence	p. 51
The fast track to confirmation : Achinstein and Peirce on evidence	p. 69
Positive relevance : a defense and a challenge	p. 85
Evidence as passing severe tests : highly probable versus highly probed hypotheses	p. 95
Consilience, confirmation, and realism	p. 129
Evidence for transmutation in seventeenth-century alchemy	p. 151
Agency and objectivity in the search for the top quark	p. 165
Will genomics do more for metaphysics than Locke?	p. 185
Is domestic breeding evidence for (or against) Darwinian evolution?	p. 207
Evidence in the sciences of behavior	p. 237
Introspective evidence in psychology	p. 259
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