Evidence, Explanation, and Realism: Essays in Philosophy of Science

By Peter Achinstein

The essays in this volume address three fundamental questions in the philosophy of science: What is required for some fact to be evidence for a scientific hypothesis? What does it mean to say that a scientist or a theory explains a phenomenon? Should scientific theories that postulate "unobservable" entities such as electrons be construed realistically as aiming to correctly describe a world underlying what is directly observable, or should such theories be understood as aiming to correctly describe only the observable world?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199735255
• ISBN13: 9780199735259
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"