Nomic Inference - Cannavo, Salvator

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Sommaire:
I. Analytical Philosophy of Science.- A. What is the Philosophy of Science?.- B. Methods of Analytical Philosophy.- C. Methods of Analytical Philosophy of Science.- D. The Analytical Account of Science.- E. Philosophical Analysis of Science and a Theory of Science.- II. What Science is: an Introductory Consideration.- A. Science and Non-Science.- B. Science and Common Sense.- C. Some Distinguishing Features of Science.- D. Distinctive Aspects of Control on Scientific Inferences.- E. Empiricist Background and Significance.- III. Ampliative Science.- (I) Discovery.- A. Proposal and Acceptance.- B. Discovery: An Old Question.- C. The Idea of a Logic of Discovery.- D. On the Possibility of a Logic of Discovery.- E. Patterns of Discovery.- F. Reasons vs. Causes (II) Acceptance.- A. Confirmation.- B. Does Discovery Differ from Acceptance in Some Important Logical Respect?.- C. Summary.- IV. Subsumptive Science: Systemization.- A. A Broad Distinction: Ampliative and Subsumptive Inference.- B. Nomic Inferences: Introductory Background.- C. Nomic Inferences with Singular Conclusions.- D. Explanation, a Species of Nomic Inference.- E. A Detour: The Causal Relation.- F. Back to Explanation Again.- G. Patterns of Nomic Inference.- H. Summary.- V. Other Aspects of Nomic Inference.- A. Are There non-Nomic Explanations?.- B. Functional (Teleological) Accounts.- C. Derivations: Nomic Inferences with Nomic Conclusions.- D. Probabilistic Nomic Inference.- E. Summary.- VI. Nomic Statements (I): Scientific Laws.- A. Introduction: Necessary Truth, Logic and Factual Science.- B. Universal Laws.- C. Statistical Laws.- D. Summary.- VII. Nomic Statements (II): Theories, Models, Analogy.- A. Theory and Observational Laws.- B. The Formal Structuring of Theories.- C. Models.- D. Formalization and Scientific Theory.- E. Analogical Content in Theories.- F. Recapitulation: What is a Scientific Theory?.- VIII. Glimpses Beyond.- A. Overview.- B. Conventionalistic Trends.- C. Incommensurability; Non-reduction and Non-accumu lationof Scientific Knowledge.- D. Non-methodism.- E. The History and Philosophy of Science.