The Search for a Naturalistic World View

This two-volume collection of his essays written over a period of forty years explores the interrelations between science and philosophy.

Zusammenfassung
This two-volume 1993 collection of Abner Shimony's essays written over a period of forty years explores the interrelations between science and philosophy.

Inhalt
Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Integral epistemology; 2. Reality, causality and closing the circle; 3. Search for a world view that can accommodate our knowledge of microphysics; 4. Perception from an evolutionary point of view; 5. Is observation theory-laden? A problem in naturalistic epistemology; 6. Coherence and the axioms of confirmation; 7. An adamite derivation of the principles of the calculus of probability; 8. The status of the principle of maximum entropy; 9. Scientific inference; 10. Reconsiderations on inductive logic; 11. Comments on two epistemological these of Thomas Kuhn; 12. Comment on Martin Eger's A Tale of Two Controversies; Index.

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