ABSTRACT
Knowledge and Reference in Empirical Science is a fascinating study of the bounds between science and language: in what sense, and of what, does science provide knowledge? Is science an instrument only distantly related to what's real? Can the language of science be used to adequately describe the truth?
In this book, Jody Azziouni investigates the technology of science - the actual forging and exploiting of causal links, between ourselves and what we endeavor to know and understand.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |70 pages
Procedural Foundationalism
chapter |3 pages
Introduction to Part I
chapter |14 pages
Program and Scope
chapter |7 pages
Reductionism, Confirmation Holism, Theoretical Deductivism
chapter |8 pages
Gross Regularities
chapter |6 pages
Procedures and Perceptual Procedures
chapter |4 pages
Shedding Perceptual Procedures
chapter |2 pages
Conclusion to Part I
part |50 pages
Two-Tiered Coherentism
chapter |2 pages
Introduction to Part II
chapter |7 pages
Evidential Centrality
chapter |9 pages
OB-Similar Extensions and OB*-Similar Extensions
chapter |6 pages
Kuhnian Considerations and the Accumulation of Knowledge
chapter |4 pages
Perceptual Impermeability and Biotechnical Incommensurability
part |46 pages
Permuting Reference
chapter |3 pages
Introduction to Part III
chapter |4 pages
Formal Considerations
chapter |12 pages
Quine's Version
chapter |3 pages
Field's Version 1
chapter |7 pages
Putnam's Version
chapter |7 pages
The Ontological Status of Causality
chapter |6 pages
Some Puzzles about Reference
chapter |2 pages
Conclusion to Part III
part |52 pages
The Transcendence of Reference