Philosophy of Science Matters The Philosophy

In this, the first book devoted to Peter Achinstein's influential work in philosophy of science, twenty distinguished philosophers, including four Lakatos award winners, address various aspects of Achinstein's influential views on the nature of scientific evidence, scientific explanation, and scientific realism. It includes short essays by Steve Gimbel and Jeff Maynes, Nancy Cartwright, Jordi Cat, Victor DiFate, Jerry Doppelt, Adam Goldstein, Philip Kitcher, Fred Kronz, Deborah Mayo, Greg Morgan, Helen Longino, John Norton, Michael Ruse, Bas van Fraassen, Stathis Psillos, Larry Laudan, Richard Richards, Kent Staley, and Jim Woodward with replies to each contributor from Peter Achinstein. Readers will come away with an understanding of the current debate in multiple areas of philosophy of science and how various contemporary issues are connected.

Gregory J. Morgan (PhD, Johns Hopkins) is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Stevens Institute of Technology. He specializes in History and Philosophy of Science and Applied Ethics and has published in British Journal for Philosophy of Science, Journal of Molecular Biology, Biology and Philosophy, Journal of History of Biology, and Isis among others.

Preface	p. vii
Contributors	p. ix
Ordinary Language and the Unordinary Philosophy of Peter Achinstein	p. 3
Evidence, External Validity, and Explanatory Relevance	p. 15
Maxwell, Matter, and Method: Maxwellian Methodology, Methodological Maxwellianism, and Methods of Historical and Philosophical Speculation	p. 29
Achinstein's Newtonian Empiricism	p. 44
Evidence and Objectivity in Achinstein's Philosophy of Science	p. 59
A Defense of Achinstein's Pragmatism about Explanation	p. 72
On the Very Idea of a Theory of Evidence	p. 84
Mill on the Hypothetical Method: A Discussion of Achinstein's Defense of Mill and Newton on Induction	p. 96
Waves, Particles, Independent Tests, and the Limits of Inductivism	p. 109
What's So Great about an Objective Concept of Evidence?	p. 124
The Objective Epistemic Probabilist and the Severe Tester	p. 135
Achinstein and Whewell on Theoretical Coherence	p. 151
Observationally Indistinguishable Spacetimes: A Challenge for Any Inductivist	p. 164
Making Contact with Molecules: On Perrin and Achinstein	p. 177
Achinstein and the Evidence for Evolution	p. 191
The Place of Artificial Selection in Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution through Natural Selection	p. 203
Evidence and Justification	p. 216
What Was Perrin's Real Achievement?	p. 231
Causes, Conditions, and the Pragmatics of Causal Explanation	p. 247
Achinstein's Replies	p. 258
Index	p. 298
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