Science and Partial Truth

A Unitary Approach to Models and Scientific Reasoning

Steven French author Newton C A da Costa author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:20th Nov '03

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Da Costa and French explore the consequences of adopting a "pragmatic" notion of truth in the philosophy of science--in other words, accepting a theory as valid when it may only be partially true rather than wholly true. Their framework sheds new light on issues dealing with belief, theory acceptance, and the realism-antirealism debate, as well as the nature of scientific models and their heuristic development.

This is an important book. It summarizes and connects significant recent developments in several areas of philosophy, and develops a coherent approach to a well defined and important problem. * The Review of Metaphysics *

ISBN: 9780195156515

Dimensions: 159mm x 245mm x 24mm

Weight: 567g

272 pages