Exceeding Our Grasp: Science, History, and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives - Hardcover

Stanford, P. Kyle

 
9780195174083: Exceeding Our Grasp: Science, History, and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives

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History reveals our routine failure to conceive of well-confirmed alternatives to our scientific theories. Stanford shows why existing defenses of scientific realism cannot evade the problem and proposes an alternative positive image of the scientific enterprise.

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P. Kyle Stanford is an Associate Professor in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1997 from the Department of Philosophy and the Science Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego. His articles on the history and philosophy of science have appeared in The Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, and elsewhere. This is his first book.

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Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2010
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