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.

part |70 pages

Procedural Foundationalism

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

chapter |3 pages

Introduction to Part IV

chapter |10 pages

Troubles for Naive Naturalism

chapter |12 pages

The Elusivity of Reference

chapter |7 pages

Causality and Reference

chapter |11 pages

Transcending Procedures

chapter |7 pages

Transcendence and its Discontents