Sherrilyn Roush

Tracking Truth

Knowledge, Evidence, and Science

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Roush defends a new theory of knowledge and evidence, based on the idea of 'tracking' the truth, as the best approach to a wide range of questions about knowledge-related phenomena. She provides a unification of the concepts of knowledge and evidence, and argues against traditional realist and anti-realist positions about scientific theories.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 383g
• ISBN-13: 9780199232932
• ISBN-10: 0199232938
• Artikelnr.: 23282592

Inhaltsangabe

1: Tracking: at home on the range
Appendix A: Knowledge without justification
2: Tracking with closure
3: Tracking: more and better
4: Tracking over the rivals
Appendix B: Sensitivity and safety
5: What is evidence? Discrimination, indication, and leverage
Appendix C: The likelihood ratio, high P(e), and high P(h/e)
6: Real anti-realism: the evidential approach