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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Are economic kinds natural.  (pages 14--102)Alan Nelson
Rationality and objectivity in science or Tom Kuhn meets Tom Bayes.  (pages 14--175)Wesley Salmon
Scientific revolutions and scientific rationality: The case of the elderly holdout.  (pages 14--319)John Worrall
The psychoanalytic enterprise in scientific perspective.  (pages 14--41)Adolf Griinbaum
On the nature of theories: A neurocomputational perspective.  (pages 59--101)Paul M. Churchland
Foundational Physics and Empiricist Critique.  (pages 136--157)Lawrence Sklar
Theories as mere conventions.  (pages 158-174)Henry E. Kyburg Jr
Demystifying underdetermination.  (pages 267-97)Larry Laudan
Realism, approximate truth, and philosophical method.  (pages 355-391)Richard Boyd
Contrastive empiricism.  (pages 392--410)Elliott Sober
Consensus Institute Staff.  (pages 417)Ned Block, Richard Boyd, Robert Butts, Ronald Giere, Clark Glymour, Adolf Grunbaum, Erwin Hiebert, Colin Howson, David Hull & Paul Humphreys

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