Experience, Reality, and Scientific Explanation Essays in Honor of M
The papers collected here comprise the proceedings of a Workshop in honor ofMerrilee and Wes Salmon, held in Florence on May 17-18, 1996. The aim of the meeting was to pay homage to these two American scholars, whose contact with Italian and European Univ
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THE WESTERN ONTARIO SERIES IN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE A SERIES OF BOOKS IN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, METHODOLOGY, EPISTEMOLOGY, LOGIC, HISTORY OF SCIENCE, AND RELATED FIELDS
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VOLUME 61
EXPERIENCE, REALITY, AND SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION Essays in Honor of Merrilee and Wesley Salmon Edited by
MARIA CARLA GALA VOTII University a/Trieste, Trieste, Italy
and
ALESSANDRO PAGNINI University 0/ Florence, Firenze, Italy
Springer·Science+Business Media, B.Y.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This volume is the result of a meeting organized by the Florence Center for History and Philosophy of Science
Scientific Board MARIA LUISA DALLA CHIARA (President)
L. AMADUCCI, T. ARECCHI, P. BARILE, G. BECATTINI, S. CALIFANO, E. CASARI, R. CONTI, F. DESsi FULGHERI, A. FONNESU, P. GALLUZZI, E. GIUSTI, M. MUGNAI, E. PANCONESI, P. PARRINI, M. PIATTELLI PALMARINI, S. POGGI, M. POLSINELLI, R. PRATESI, P. ROGGI, P. ROSSI, G. TORALDO DI FRANCIA, D. TORRE Director A. PAGNINI Scientific Secretary P. MINARI
TABLE OF CONTENTS
MARIA CARLA GALAVOTTI and ALESSANDRO PAGNINI I Foreword
IX
ROBERT E. BUTTS I The Reception of German Scientific Philosophy in North America: 1930-1962
1
PAOLO PARRINI I Immanenzgedanken and Knowledge as Unification. Scientific Philosophy and Philosophy of Science
15
MARIA CARLA GALAVOTTI I Wesley Salmon on Explanation, Probability and Rationality
39
ROBERTO FESTA I Bayesian Confirmation
55
CRISTINA BICCHIERI and YOSHIT AKA FUKUI I The Great Illusion: Ignorance, Informational Cascades, and the Persistence of Unpopular Norms
89
ALESSANDRO PAGNINI I On Hume's Experimental Atheism
123
MARTIN CAR
