Science and Partial Truth: A Unitary Approach to Models and Scientific Reasoning

by Steven French and Newton C.A. da Costa

In the past thirty years, two fundamental issues have emerged in the philosophy of science. One concerns the appropriate attitude we should take towards scientific theories--whether we should regard them as true or merely empirically adequate, for example. The other concerns the nature of scientific theories and models and how these might best be represented.

In this ambitious book, da Costa and French bring these two issues together by arguing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019515651X
• ISBN13: 9780195156515
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.7"