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In this volume, which was originally published in 1982, Paul Horwich presents a clear and unified approach to a number of problems in the philosophy of science. He diagnoses the failure of other attempts to resolve them as stemming from a too-rigid, all-or-nothing conception of belief, and adopts instead a Bayesian strategy, emphasising the degree of confidence to which we are entitled the light of scientific evidence. This probabilistic approach, he argues, yields a more complete understanding of the assumptions and procedures characteristic of scientific reasoning. It also accounts for the merits of simplicity, severe tests and surprising predictions, and provides a way in which the dispute between the realist and instrumentalist views of science might be resolved. The result is a crisp, well-focused contribution to the philosophy of science. The elaboration of an important conception of probability will stimulate anyone with an interest in the field.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Science: general issues Philosophy of science

• Full title: Probability and Evidence
• Author: Paul Horwich
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 158
• EAN: 9780521283366
• ISBN: 0521283361
• ID: 02026509
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 222 g
• Dimensions: 148 × 217 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. June 2011

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