Exceeding our grasp [electronic resource] : science, history, and the problem of unconceived alternatives / P. Kyle Stanford.

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Stanford, P. Kyle

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Oxford eBooks

Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 234 p.)ISBN:

0195174089

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Electronic books.

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501 22

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Q175.32.I54

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Summary: This volume argues that history reveals our routine failure to even conceive of well-confirmed alternatives to our scientific theories, and similar alternatives to our own theories likely remain unconceived. It shows why defences of scientific realism cannot evade the problem and proposes an alternative image of the scientific enterprise.

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This volume argues that history reveals our routine failure to even conceive of well-confirmed alternatives to our scientific theories, and similar alternatives to our own theories likely remain unconceived. It shows why defences of scientific realism cannot evade the problem and proposes an alternative image of the scientific enterprise.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.