Scientific Theories

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University of Minnesota Press (1956)
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Churchland proposes a radically new way of representing theories and their acquisition in the terms of connectionist neuro- science. ...

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Consensus Institute Staff.Ned Block, Richard Boyd, Robert Butts, Ronald Giere, Clark Glymour, Adolf Grunbaum, Erwin Hiebert, Colin Howson, David Hull & Paul Humphreys
Realism, approximate truth, and philosophical method.Richard Boyd
On the nature of theories: A neurocomputational perspective.Paul M. Churchland
The psychoanalytic enterprise in scientific perspective.Adolf Griinbaum
Theories as mere conventions.Henry E. Kyburg Jr
Demystifying underdetermination.Larry Laudan
Are economic kinds natural.Alan Nelson
Rationality and objectivity in science or Tom Kuhn meets Tom Bayes.Wesley Salmon
Foundational Physics and Empiricist Critique.Lawrence Sklar
Contrastive empiricism.Elliott Sober
Scientific revolutions and scientific rationality: The case of the elderly holdout.John Worrall

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