{"product_id":"exceeding-our-grasp-9780199751532","title":"Exceeding Our Grasp","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Exceeding Our Grasp , Stanford argues that careful attention to the history of scientific investigation invites a challenge to this view that is not well represented in contemporary debates about the nature of the scientific enterprise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe argument is extremely clear, detailed, and thorough. It doesn't try to be a textbook, and is aimed squarely at professional philosophers and advanced students in philosophy of science. * Metaphilosophy *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Realism, Pessimism, and Underdetermination ; 1.1 Scientific Realism: What's at Stake? ; 1.2 Problems for Pessimism and Underdetermination ; 1.3 Recurrent, Transient Underdetermination, and a New Induction over the History of Science ; 2. Chasing Duhem: The Problem of Unconceived Alternatives ; 2.1 Duhem's Worry: Eliminative Inferences and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives ; 2.2 Confirmation: Holism, Eliminative Induction, and Bayesianism ; 2.3 Pessimism Revisited ; 3. Darwin and Pangenesis: The Search for the Material Basis of Generation and Heredity ; 3.1 Preliminary Worries ; 3.2 Pangenesis: Darwin's \"Mad Dream\" and \"Beloved Child\" ; 3.3 Darwin's Failure to Grasp Galton's Common Cause Mechanism for Inheritance ; 4. Galton and the Strip Theory ; 4.1 The Transfusion Experiments: \"A Dreadful Disappointment to Them Both\" ; 4.2 Galton's Strip Theory and Its Maturational, Invariant Conception of Inheritance ; 4.3 Galton's Understanding of \"Correlation\" and \"Variable Influences\" in Development ; 5. August Weismann's Theory of the Germ-Plasm ; 5.1 German Biology at the End of the Nineteenth Century and Weismann's Theory of the Germ-Plasm ; 5.2 Germinal Specificity, the Search for a Mechanism of Cellular Differentiation and the Reservation of the Germ-Plasm ; 5.4 Productive and Expendable Germinal Resources ; 5.5 Conclusion: Lessons from History ; 6. History Revisited: Pyrrhic Victories for Scientific Realism ; 6.1 Realist Responses to the Historical Record ; 6.2 Once More into the Breach: The Pessimistic Induction ; 6.3 Reference without Descriptive Accuracy ; 6.4 Diluting Approximate Truth ; 7. Selective Confirmation and the Historical Record: \"Another Such Victory over the Romans\"? ; 7.1 Realism, Selective Confirmation, and Retrospective Judgments of Idleness ; 7.2 Theoretical Posits: They Work Hard for the Money ; 7.3 Trust and Betrayal ; 7.4 Structural Realism and Retention ; 7.5 Selective Confirmation: No Refuge for Realism ; 8. Science without Realism? ; References ; Index","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767072883031,"sku":"9780199751532","price":38.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780199751532.jpg?v=1758712262","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/exceeding-our-grasp-9780199751532","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}