Overview
- Provides a novel account of evidence in mature science
- Views the notions of evidence and confirmation in the exact sciences from a conceptual and historical perspective
- Contains contributions by both philosophers and historians of science
Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 343)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book builds on the path-breaking work of George E. Smith and further explores the notions of evidence and confirmation in the exact sciences from two perspectives: conceptual and historical. Contributions in this volume investigate the philosophical presuppositions, explanatory scope, and historical precursors of evidence in mathematical physics and related disciplines. The papers are written by and of interest to philosophers and historians of science.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Marius Stan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. He works in history and philosophy of science, with an emphasis on classical physics. He is co-author, with Katherine Brading, of Philosophical Mechanics in the Age of Reason (Oxford), and author of Kant’s Natural Philosophy (Cambridge).
Christopher Smeenk is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Rotman Institute at Western University, Ontario. He works in general philosophy of science, philosophy of cosmology, and history of physics. In addition to numerous articles, he is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Newton (with Eric Schliesser) and co-author of The Aim and Structure of Cosmological Theory (with James Owen Weatherall).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Theory, Evidence, Data: Themes from George E. Smith
Editors: Marius Stan, Christopher Smeenk
Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41041-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41040-6Published: 28 November 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41043-7Due: 29 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-41041-3Published: 27 November 2023
Series ISSN: 0068-0346
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIV, 379
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Science, History of Science