Conoscere e sperimentare /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hacking, Ian, 1936-
Format: Book
Language:Italian
Published: Bari : Laterza, 1987.
Series:Biblioteca di Cultura Moderna Laterza ; 946
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: rationality
  • Part I. Representing: 1. What is scientific realism?
  • 2. Building and causing
  • 3. Positivism
  • 4. Pragmatism
  • 5. Incommensurability
  • 6. Reference
  • 7. Internal realism
  • 8. A surrogate for truth
  • Part II. Intervening: 9. Experiment
  • 10. Observation
  • 11. Microscopes
  • 12. Speculation, calculation, models, approximations
  • 13. The creation of phenomena
  • 14. Measurement
  • 15. Baconian topics
  • 16. Experimentation and scientific realism
  • Further reading
  • Index.