{"product_id":"9780792360865","title":"Synthese Library: On Some Relations between Confirmation, Empirical Progress, and Truth Approximation","description":"\u003ch1\u003eSynthese Library\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eOn Some Relations between Confirmation, Empirical Progress, and Truth Approximation\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContributors:\u003c\/strong\u003e Kuipers, Theo A.F.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSurprisingly, modified versions of the confirmation theory  (Carnap and Hempel) and truth approximation theory (Popper) turn out  to be smoothly sythesizable. The glue between the two appears to be  the instrumentalist methodology, rather than that of the  falsificationalist. \u003cbr\u003e  The instrumentalist methodology, used in the separate, comparative  evaluation of theories in terms of their successes and problems  (hence, even if already falsified), provides in theory and practice  the straight road to short-term empirical progress in science (\u003cem\u003e  \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eà la\u003c\/em\u003e Laudan). It is also argued that such progress is  also functional for all kinds of truth approximation: observational,  referential, and theoretical. This sheds new light on the long-term  dynamics of science and hence on the relation between the main  epistemological positions, viz., instrumentalism (Toulmin, Laudan),  constructive empiricism (Van Fraassen), referential realism (Hacking,  Cartwright), and theory realism of a non-essentialist nature  (constructive realism\u003cem\u003e à la\u003c\/em\u003e Popper). \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cem\u003eReadership:\u003c\/em\u003e Open minded philosophers and scientists. The book  explains and justifies the scientist's intuition that the debate among  philosophers about instrumentalism and realism has almost no practical  consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Springer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2000-02-29\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780792360865\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 372\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45416681799820,"sku":"9780792360865","price":152.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9780792360865.jpg?v=1768917757","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9780792360865","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}