Evidence, Explanation, and Realism —— Essays in Philosophy of Science

----- 证据，解释，与现实主义:科学哲学随笔

ISBN: 9780199735259 出版年：2010 页码：344 Achinstein, Peter Oxford University Press

The 15 essays in this volume by the distinguished philosopher of science Peter Achinstein address three fundamental questions: What is required for a fact to be evidence for a scientific hypothesis? What is involved in giving a scientific explanation of a phenomenon? And should scientific theories be construed as aiming to correctly describe the entire world or only the observable parts of it?