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Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 The No Miracles Intuition and the No Miracles Argument
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    Chapter 2 The Scope and Limits of the No Miracles Argument1
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    Chapter 3 Causation, Association and Confirmation
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    Chapter 4 An Objective Bayesian Account of Confirmation
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    Chapter 5 An Explication of the Use of Inference to the Best Explanation
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    Chapter 6 A Formal Logic for the Abduction of Singular Hypotheses1
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    Chapter 7 Probabilities in Branching Structures
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    Chapter 8 Causality and Explanation: Issues from Epidemiology
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    Chapter 9 Invariance, Mechanisms and Epidemiology
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    Chapter 10 What’s Wrong with the Pragmatic-Ontic Account of Mechanistic Explanation?
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    Chapter 11 Causality and Evidence Discovery in Epidemiology
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    Chapter 12 Inferences to Causal Relevance from Experiments
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    Chapter 13 Comparing Part-Whole Reductive Explanations in Biology and Physics1
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    Chapter 14 The Arrival of the Fittest
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    Chapter 15 The Arrival of the Fittest What?
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    Chapter 16 Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation
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    Chapter 17 Methodological Higher-Level Interdisciplinarity by Scheme-Interpretationism: Against Methodological Separatism of the Natural, Social, and Human Sciences
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    Chapter 18 Explanation and Interpretation in the Sciences of Man
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    Chapter 19 Imagination and Explanation in History
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    Chapter 20 Historical Narratives, Evidence, and Explanations
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    Chapter 21 Holistic Social Causation and Explanation
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    Chapter 22 Complexity in Economics and Prediction: The Role of Parsimonious Factors1
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    Chapter 23 Prediction and Prescription in the Science of the Artificial: Information Science and Complexity1
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    Chapter 24 Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation
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    Chapter 25 The Gibbs Paradox Revisited
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    Chapter 26 The Alexandroff Present and Minkowski Spacetime: Why it Cannot Do What it has Been Asked to Do1
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    Chapter 27 A Locus for “Now”
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    Chapter 28 Weyl’s Principle, Cosmic Time and Quantum Fundamentalism
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    Chapter 29 Not Throwing out the Baby with the Bathwater: Bell’s Condition of Local Causality Mathematically ‘Sharp and Clean’
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    Chapter 30 Kant on Chance and Explanation
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    Chapter 31 Shifting the (Non-Relativized) A Priori: Hans Reichenbach on Causality and Probability (1915–1932)
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    Chapter 32 Carnap’s Theories of Confirmation
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    Chapter 33 The Rise and Fall of Falsificationism in the Light of Neurath’s Criticism1
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    Chapter 34 Probability and Pragmatism
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    Chapter 35 Russell on Non-Demonstrative Inference
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    Chapter 36 Edgar Zilsel on Historical Laws
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    Chapter 37 “Every System of Scientific Theory Involves Philosophical Assumptions” (Talcott Parsons). The Surprising Weberian Roots to Milton Friedman’s Methodology
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Title
Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation
Published by
Springer Netherlands, January 2011
DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-1180-8
ISBNs
978-9-40-071179-2, 978-9-40-071180-8, 978-9-40-073567-5
Editors

Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao J. Gonzalez, Stephan Hartmann, Thomas Uebel, Marcel Weber

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Country Count As %
Canada 3 6%
Israel 1 2%
Germany 1 2%
Russia 1 2%
Unknown 47 89%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 19%
Student > Bachelor 9 17%
Researcher 8 15%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 13%
Professor > Associate Professor 3 6%
Other 8 15%
Unknown 8 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Philosophy 17 32%
Social Sciences 7 13%
Psychology 4 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 6%
Arts and Humanities 3 6%
Other 11 21%
Unknown 8 15%