About this title: Knowledge and Reference in Empirical Science is a fascinating study of the bounds between science, knowledge and language: what kind of knowledge does science give us, and can the language of science be taken literally to describe the truth? In the first half of the book, Jody Azzouni examines the issues surrounding our knowledge of scientific theories, and how we gather evidence for them and test them. The second half of the book is concerned with 'reference', the relationship between the use of a word and the object to which it refers. Azzouni defends the position of 'semantic naturalism' ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis(Routledge)
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780415333542ISBN:0415333547
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 9.213 by 6.142 inches. Preface acknowledgments general introduction part 1. procedural foundationalism 1. introduction to part 1 2. program and scope 3. reductionism, confirmation holism, theoretical deductivism 4. some observations on reductionism and the autonomy of the special sciences 5. some comments on the philosophical implications of the use of idealizations in science 6. gross regularities 7. procedures and perceptual procedures 8. shedding perceptual procedures 9. ... read more
Binding: Library Binding
Publisher: Routledge
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780415223836ISBN:0415223830
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis(Routledge)
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780415223836ISBN:0415223830
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 9.213 by 6.142 inches. A fascinating study of the bounds between science and language, knowledge and truth. jody azzouni explores how the language of science transforms our fragmented investigations of the world into a unitary and seamless discourse. knowledge and reference in empirical science is a fascinating study of the bounds between science and language: in what sense, and of what, does science provide knowledge? is science an instrument only distantly related to what ... read more
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