Error and Inference: Recent Exchanges on Experimental Reasoning, Reliability, and the Objectivity and Rationality of Science

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Deborah G. Mayo, Aris Spanos
Cambridge University Press, 2011 - 419 sidor
Introduction and background / Deborah G. Mayo and Aris Spanos -- 1. Learning from error, severe testing, and the growth of theoretical knowledge / Deborah G. Mayo -- 2. The life of theory in the new experimentalism : can scientific theories be warranted? / Alan Chalmers -- Can scientific theories be warranted with severity? : exchanges with Alan Chalmers / Deborah G. Mayo -- 3. Revisiting critical rationalism -- Critical rationalism, explanation, and severe tests / Alan Musgrave -- Toward progressive critical rationalism : exchanges with Alan Musgrave / Deborah G. Mayo -- 4. Theory confirmation and novel evidence -- Error, tests, and theory confirmation / John Worrall -- Ad hoc save of a theory of adhocness? : exchanges with John Worrall / Deborah G. Mayo -- 5. Induction and severe testing -- Mill's sins or Mayo's errors? / Peter Achinstein -- Sins of the epistemic probabilist : exchanges with Peter Achinstein / Deborah G. Mayo -- 6. Theory testing in economics and the error-statistical perspective / Aris Spanos -- 7. New perspectives on (some old) problems of frequentist statistics -- Frequentist statistics as a theory of inductive inference / Deborah G. Mayo and David Cox -- Objectivity and conditionality in frequentist inference / David Cox and Deborah G. Mayo -- An error in the argument from conditionality and sufficiency to the likelihood principle / Deborah G. Mayo -- On a new philosophy of frequentist inference : exchanges with David Cox and Deborah G. Mayo / Aris Spanos -- 8. Causal modeling, explanation and severe testing -- Explanation and truth / Clark Glymour -- Explanation and testing exchanges with Clark Glymour / Deborah G. Mayo -- Graphical causal modeling and error statistics : exchanges with Clark Glymour / Aris Spanos -- 9. Error and legal epistemology -- Anomaly of affirmative defenses / Larry Laudan -- Error and the law : exchanges with Larry Laudan / Deborah G. Mayo.

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Introduction and Background
1
The ErrorStatistical Philosophy
15
Learning from Error Severe Testing and the Growth
28
TheLifeofTheoryintheNewExperimentalism
58
Can Scientific Theories Be Warranted with Severity?
73
Revisiting Critical Rationalism
88
Exchanges with Alan Musgrave
113
Theory Confirmation and Novel Evidence
125
New Perspectives on Some Old Problems
247
Objectivity and Conditionality in Frequentist Inference
276
An Error in the Argument from Conditionality
305
On a New Philosophy of Frequentist Inference
315
Causal Modeling Explanation and Severe Testing
331
Explanation and Testing Exchanges with Clark Glymour
351
Graphical Causal Modeling and Error Statistics
364
Error and LegalEpistemology
376

An Ad Hoc Save of a Theory of Adhocness?
155
Induction and Severe Testing
170
Sins of the Epistemic Probabilist
189
Theory Testing in Economics and the ErrorStatistical
202
Exchanges with Larry Laudan
397
Index
411
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Deborah G. Mayo is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, known as Virginia Tech, and holds a visiting appointment in the Center for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Science at the London School of Economics. She is the author of Error and the Growth of Experimental Knowledge, which in 1998 won the Lakatos Prize, awarded for the most outstanding contribution to philosophy of science during the previous six years. Professor Mayo coedited the volume Acceptable Evidence: Science and Values in Risk Management (1991, with R. Hollander) and has published numerous articles on the philosophy and history of science and foundations of statistics and experimental inference and in interdisciplinary works on evidence relevant for regulation and policy. Aris Spanos is Wilson Schmidt Professor of Economics at Virginia Tech. He has also taught at Birkbeck College, London, the University of Cambridge, the University of California and the University of Cyprus. Professor Spanos is the author of Probability Theory and Statistical Inference (1999) and Statistical Foundations of Econometric Modeling (1986), both published by Cambridge University Press. Professor Spanos's research has appeared in journals such as the Journal of Econometrics, Econometric Theory, Econometric Reviews, and Philosophy of Science. His research interests include the philosophy and methodology of statistical inference and modeling, foundational problems in statistics, statistical adequacy, misspecification testing and respecification, resampling and simulation techniques and modeling speculative prices.

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TitelError and Inference: Recent Exchanges on Experimental Reasoning, Reliability, and the Objectivity and Rationality of Science
RedaktörerDeborah G. Mayo, Aris Spanos
Utgåvaillustrerad, nytryck
UtgivareCambridge University Press, 2011
ISBN0521180252, 9780521180252
Längd419 sidor
  
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