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Observation and Experiment in the Natural and Social Sciences

According to a long tradition in philosophy of science, a clear cut distinction can be traced between a context of discovery and a context of justification. This tradition dates back to the birth of the discipline in connection with the Circles of Vienna and Berlin, in the twenties and thirties of l...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Galavotti, Maria Carla. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2003.
Series:Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science ; 237
Subjects:
Philosophy.
Epistemology.
Philosophy and science.
Philosophy of nature.
Philosophy of Science.
Philosophy of Nature.
Online Access:View fulltext via EzAccess
Table of Contents:
  • From Throry to Experiment and Back Again
  • Na©<U+00fd>ve Probability
  • From Theory to Experiments and Back Again ... and Back Again ... Comments on Patrick Suppes
  • Emergence and Future of Experimental Economics
  • Rationality in Experimental Economics: An Analysis of Reinhard SeltenỚ"s Approach
  • Experiments, Heuristics and Social Diversity: A Comment on Reinhard Selten
  • Where do New Ideas Come From? a Heuristics of Discovery in the Cognitive Sciences
  • Comments on Gerd Gigerenzer
  • On the Concept of Discovery Comments on Gerd Gigerenzer
  • Styles of Experimentation
  • On French Concepts and Objects Comments on Ursula Klein
  • Some Comments on ỚSStyles of ExperimentationỚ<U+00fd> by Ursula Klein
  • Improving ỚSStyles of ExperimentationỚ<U+00fd> a Comment on Ursula Klein
  • Experiments and Thought Experiments in Natural Science
  • The Advantages of Theft Over Honest Toil Comments on David Atkinson
  • Thinking About Thought Experiments in Physics Comment on ỚSExperiments and Thought Experiments in Natural ScienceỚ<U+00fd>
  • The Dynamics of Thought Experiments A Comment on David Atkinson
  • An Attempt at a Philosophy of Experiment
  • An Attempt at a Philosophy of Experimental Error a Comment on Giora Hon
  • O Happy Error a Comment on Giora Hon
  • Bayesian Evidence
  • On Bayesian Logic Comments on Colin Howson
  • On Bayesian Induction (and Pythagoric Arithmetic)
  • Probability and Logic Comments on Colin Howson.

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