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050 00 $aQ175$b.D63415 1995
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100 1 $aDilworth, Craig.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81087909
245 14 $aThe metaphysics of science :$ban account of modern science in terms of principles, laws, and theories /$cCraig Dilworth.
260 $aBoston :$bKluwer Academic,$c1995.
263 $a9511
300 $ax, 235 pages ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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490 1 $aBoston studies in the philosophy of science ;$vv. 173
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tEmpiricism Vs. Realism - The Perennial Debate in the Philosophy of Science --$g2.$tFundamental and Refined Principles: The Core of Modern Science --$g3.$tEmpirical Laws: The Supervention of Experience --$g4.$tScientific Theories: Closing the Circle --$g5.$tThe Principle-Theory-Law Model of Scientific Explanation --$g6.$tThe Social Sciences: A Consideration of Economics --$g7.$tNatural Kinds --$g8.$tProbability and Confirmation --$g9.$tEmpiricism Vs. Realism Revisited --$g10.$tModern Science and the Future.
520 $aThe Metaphysics of Science provides a clear, well-founded conception of modern science, according to which its core consists of particular metaphysical principles. On this view, both the empirical and the theoretical aspects of science are the result of the attempt to apply these metaphysical principles to reality. There is a flexibility in the application of the principles, however, so that, in their scientific guise, they may come to be reformed over time through scientific revolutions.
520 8 $aThis approach to modern science provides a unified conception of the enterprise, explaining such of its various aspects as the principle of induction, the nature of scientific knowledge and scientific reduction, the fundamental difference between the natural and social sciences, and the role of essentialism with respect to natural kinds. Furthermore, it provides a resolution of the longstanding debate between empiricism and realism.
520 8 $aIn this regard, and in others, the view of science advanced in this work is not only novel, but constitutes an alternative that is superior to both the empiric-analytic and the sociology of knowledge approaches that are prevalent today.
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650 0 $aScience$xMethodology.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118577
650 0 $aMetaphysics.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084286
830 0 $aBoston studies in the philosophy of science ;$vv. 173.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42005206
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