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Leading philosopher of science Peter Achinstein has put together a first-rate collection on the problem of scientific evidence. -- Michael Ruse, Florida State University

Table of Contents

Preface
Contributors
Part I: Philosophical Theories of Evidence
Chapter 1. A Little Survey of Induction
Chapter 2. Four Mistaken Theses about Evidence, and How to Correct Them
Chapter 3. Restoring Ambiguity to Achinstein's Account of Evidence
Chapter 4. The Fast Track to Confirmation: Achinstein and Peirce on Evidence
Chapter 5. Positive Relevance: A Defense and a Challenge
Chapter 6. Evidence as Passing Sever Tests: Highly Probably Versus Highly Probed Hypotheses
Chapter 7. Consilience, Confirmation, and Realism
Part II: Scientific Applications
Chapter 8. Evidence for Transmutation in Seventeenth-Century Alchemy
Chapter 9. Agency and Objectivity in the Search for the Top Quark
Chapter 10. Will Genomics Do More for Metaphysics Than Locke?
Chapter 11. Is Domestic Evidence For (Or Against) Darwinian Evolution?
Chapter 12. Evidence in the Sciences of Behavior
Chapter 13. Introspective Evidence in Psychology

About the Author

Peter Achinstein is a professor of philosophy at the Johns Hopkins University. His previous books include Science Rules and Concepts of Science, also available from Johns Hopkins.

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"Leading philosopher of science Peter Achinstein has put together a first-rate collection on the problem of scientific evidence."--Michael Ruse, Florida State University"