Experience, reality, and scientific explanation

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Experience, reality, and scientific explanation

essays in honor of Merrilee and Wesley Salmon

edited byMaria Carla Galavotti Alessandro Pagnini

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The reception of Kantie scientific philosophy in North America

1930–1962

Robert E. Butts

pp.1-14

Immanenzgedanken and knowledge as unification

scientific philosophy and philosophy of science

Paolo Parrini

pp.15-37

Wesley Salmon on explanation, probability and rationality Maria Carla Galavotti

pp.39-54

Bayesian confirmation Roberto Festa

pp.55-87

The great illusion

ignorance, informational cascades, and the persistence of unpopular norms

Cristina Bicchieri Yoshitaka Fukui

pp.89-121

On Hume's experimental atheism Alessandro Pagnini

pp.123-141

It happened at the same time

Salmon and the conventionality of distant simultaneity

Martin Carrier

pp.143-161

On various realisms in quantum theory Michael Stöltzner

pp.163-186

Wrongful life

logico-empiricist philosophy of biology

Gereon Wolters

pp.187-208

Comments Merrilee H. Salmon Wesley C. Salmon

pp.209-239

Words of appreciation Wesley C. Salmon

pp.241-241

Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Dordrecht

Year: 1999

Pages: 252

ISBN (hardback): 978-90-481-5145-5

ISBN (digital): 978-94-015-9191-1

Full citation:

Galavotti Maria Carla, Pagnini Alessandro (1999) Experience, reality, and scientific explanation: essays in honor of Merrilee and Wesley Salmon. Dordrecht, Springer.