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Paradox of Predictivism

Name: Paradox of Predictivism
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 02051479
Price: 50.99 EUR
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Author: Eric Christian Barnes
ISBN: 9781107405165

Eric Christian Barnes

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English

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Libristo code: 02051479

Publishers Cambridge University Press, July 2012

An enduring question in the philosophy of science is the question of whether a scientific theory des... Full description

Libristo code: 02051479

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An enduring question in the philosophy of science is the question of whether a scientific theory deserves more credit for its successful predictions than it does for accommodating data that was already known when the theory was developed. In The Paradox of Predictivism, first published in 2008, Eric Barnes argues that the successful prediction of evidence testifies to the general credibility of the predictor in a way that evidence does not when the evidence is used in the process of endorsing the theory. He illustrates his argument with an important episode from nineteenth-century chemistry, Mendeleev's Periodic Law and its successful predictions of the existence of various elements. The consequences of this account of predictivism for the realist/anti-realist debate are considerable, and strengthen the status of the 'no miracle' argument for scientific realism. Barnes's important and original contribution to the debate will interest a wide range of readers in philosophy of science.