Reality and Rationality

the late Wesley C. Salmon; Editor-Phil Dowe; Editor-Merrilee H. Salmon

ISBN 10: 0195177843 / ISBN 13: 9780195177848

Published by Oxford University Press, USA, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reality and Rationality
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195177843
• ISBN 13: 9780195177848
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 19 ounces

About this title

Synopsis

This volume of articles (most published, some new) is a follow-up to the late Wesley C. Salmon's widely read collection Causality And Explanation (OUP 1998). It contains both published and unpublished articles, and focuses on two related areas of inquiry: First, is science a rational enterprise? Secondly, does science yield objective information about our world, even the aspects that we cannot observe directly? Salmon's own take is that objective knowledge of the world is possible, and his work in these articles centers around proving that this can be so. Salmon's influential standing in the field ensures that this volume will be of interest to both undergraduates and professional philosophers, primarily in the philosophy of science.

About the Author

Wesley C. Salmon was University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. He devoted his main research efforts to causality and explanation and to probability, induction, and confirmation. Among his major works are Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World (1984) and Causality and Explanation (1998).