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SPRINGERBRIEFS IN PHILOSOPHY UNIVERSAL ASPECT...

This book provides a unique contribution to philosophy of science from the perspective of the
practice of science. It focuses on processes that generate scientific knowledge and seeks
general and universal features that characterize scientific practice  features that are
inherent to the practice of science. Science is an activity  and the scientist is an agent who
pursues some practice  which in one way or another engages evidence. In science  claims to
knowledge are typically supported by argument that engages evidence at some point in
explanation  in prediction  or indeed in any mode of presenting data and its interpretation.
Thus  the practice of science includes at least three elements so that an argument can be
formulated: presuppositions  modes of inference  and consequences that relate to evidence. The
authors discuss in detail eight cases in chronological order with which they illustrate how
commitment  methodology  and technique come into play in the practice of an individual
physicist or a group of researchers in the physical sciences. Each case highlights aspects of
the roles these categories play in scientific practice  where the goal is to generate and
extend scientific knowledge.

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