Agazzi, Evandro

Scientific Objectivity and Its Contexts [electronic resource] / by Evandro Agazzi. - Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2014. - 1 online resource (XVII, 482 p. 7 ill.)

Historical and Philosophical Background -- The Characterisation of Objectivity -- First Corollaries in the Philosophy of Science -- The Ontological Commitment of Science -- Scientific Realism -- The Contexts of Objectivity -- Corollaries in the Philosophy of Science -- Scientific Truth Revisited -- The Context of Making Science -- Science and Metaphysics -- Appendix -- References -- Indexes.

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Philosophy.
Ethics.
Philosophy and science.
Philosophy of nature.
Mathematical logic.
Physics.