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Deborah G. Mayo

Error and the Growth of Experimental Knowledge

509 pages, 12 line drawings, 6 tables  6 x 9  © 1996
Series: Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series

Cloth $97.00

ISBN: 9780226511979   Published July 1996

Paper $42.50

ISBN: 9780226511986   Published August 1996

Preface
1: Learning from Error
2: Ducks, Rabbits, and Normal Science: Recasting the Kuhn's-Eye View of
Popper
3: The New Experimentalism and the Bayesian Way
4: Duhem, Kuhn, and Bayes
5: Models of Experimental Inquiry
6: Severe Tests and Methodological Underdetermination
7: The Experimental Basis from Which to Test Hypotheses: Brownian Motion
8: Severe Tests and Novel Evidence
9: Hunting and Snooping: Understanding the Neyman-Pearson
Predesignationist Stance
10: Why You Cannot Be Just a Little Bit Bayesian
11: Why Pearson Rejected the Neyman-Pearson (Behavioristic) Philosophy
and a Note on Objectivity in Statistics
12: Error Statistics and Peircean Error Correction
13: Toward an Error-Statistical Philosophy of Science
References
Index
Awards
  • Lakatos Award in Philosophy of Science
Subjects



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