Francis Bacon’s Skeptical Recipes for New Knowledge
The book sets an ambitious goal. It devises a new account of scientific methodology that makes it possible to explain how scientists manage, at least occasionally, to find true models of reality. The new methods may be contrasted with all those currently available that employ “coherence theories” of...
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| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2024, 2024
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1, Logical Doubts Concerning Induction
- Chapter 2, Socrates and the Skeptical Craft
- Chapter 3, The Active Fallibilism of a Situational Skeptic
- Chapter 4, Pyrrhonian, a School of Skeptics
- Chapter 5, Freedom by Confinement
- Chapter 6, The Sphinx
- Chapter 7, Evidence and Its Refutation
- Chapter 8, Francis Bacon’s Elenchus
- Chapter 9, A Mathematical Method for Physics
- Chapter 10, A Foundational Skepticism
- Chapter 11, Applying the Foundational Method
- Chapter 12, Applying The Experimental Philosophy