The Comprehensibility of the Universe
A New Conception of Science
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Nicholas Maxwell argues that the prevailing view of the relation between scientific theory and evidence is untenable; he calls for a new orthodoxy which sees science as making a hierarchy of assumptions about the comprehensibility of the universe.
1. A New Conception of Science
2. The Failings of Standard Empiricism
3. Comprehensibility
4. Simplicity
5. Induction
6. Evidence, Progress, and Discovery
7. Quantum Theory
Mathematical and Physical Appendix
Bibliography
Index
Nicholas Maxwell , Emeritus Reader in Philosophy of Science, University of London
`Maxwell's highly informed discussions of the changing ontologies of various modern physical theories are enjoyable, and the physical and mathematical appendix of the book should be a great help to the beginners.'
The Philosophical Review, vol.110, no.1 |d 16/04/2002