Volume 14 (1990): Scientific theories

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Edited by C. Wade Savage

From the fall of 1985 through the spring of 1987 the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science conducted an institute--an ongoing conference--whose focal question was: Is there a new consensus in the philosophy of science? ... For this purpose the field was initially divided into three traditional areas: scientific explanation, scientific theories, and scientific justification or evaluation. ... The present volume contains papers in the second and third areas. --Preface.

Companion volume to Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science 13, Scientific explanation

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Scientific theories. Preliminaries
(University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1990)
Scientific theories. Introduction
(University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1990) Savage, C. Wade
Seek and ye might find
(University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1990) Caplan, Arthur L.
The psychoanalytic enterprise in scientific perspective
(University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1990) Grünbaum, Adolf
On the nature of theories: a neurocomputational perspective
(University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1990) Churchland, Paul M.
Are economic kinds natural?
(University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1990) Nelson, Alan
Foundational physics and empiricist critique
(University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1990) Sklar, Lawrence
Theories as mere conventions
(University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1990) Kyburg, Henry
Rationaltiy and objectivity in science, or, Tom Kuhn meets Tom Bayes
(University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1990) Salmon, Wesley C.
Bayesian problems of old evidence
(University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1990) Eells, Ellery
Fitting your theory to the facts: probably not such a bad thing after all
(University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1990) Howson, Colin
The value of knowledge
(University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1990) Skyrms, Brian
Demystifying underdetermination
(University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1990) Laudan, Larry
Dubbing and redubbing: the vulnerability of rigid designation
(University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1990) Kuhn, Thomas S.
Scientific revolutions and scientific rationality: the case of the "elderly holdout"
(University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1990) Worrall, John
Realism, approximate truth, and philosophical method
(University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1990) Boyd, Richard
Contrastive empiricism
(University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1990) Sober, Elliott

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