Reality and Rationality

by Wesley C. Salmon and Merilee Salmon

Book Overview

This volume of articles (most published, some new) is a follow-up to the late Wesley C. Salmon's widely read collection Causality And Explanation (OUP 1998). It contains both published and unpublished articles, and focuses on two related areas of inquiry: First, is science a rational enterprise? Secondly, does science yield objective information about our world, even the aspects that we cannot observe directly? Salmon's own take is that objective...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195177843
• ISBN13: 9780195177848
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.5" x 8.5"