Philosophy of Science Matters The Philosophy of Peter Achinstein [Hardcover]

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.


Preface
1: Ordinary Language and the Unordinary Philosophy of Peter Achinstein
2: Evidence, External Validity and Explanatory Relevance
3: Maxwell, Matter and Method: Maxwellian Methodology, Maxwellianism and Methods of Historical and Philosophical Speculation
4: Achinstein's Newtonian Empiricism
5: Evidence and Objectivity in Achinstein's Philosophy of Science
6: A Defense of Achinstein's Pragmatism About Explanation
7: On the Very Idea of a Theory of Evidence
8: Mill on the Hypothetical Method: A Discussion of Achinstein's Defense of Mill and Newton on Induction
9: Waves, Particles, Independent Tests and the Limits of Inductivism
10: What's So Great About an Objective Concept of Evidence?
11: The Objective Epistemic Probabilist and the Severe Tester
12: Achinstein and Whewell on Theoretical Coherence
13: Observationally Indistinguishable Spacetimes: A Challenge for Any Inductivist
14: Making Contact with Molecules: On Perrin and Achinstein
15: Achinstein and The Evidence for Evolution
16: The Place of Artificial Selection in Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution Tl£%