Search for dissertations about: "Hempel"
Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the word Hempel.
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1. Knowledge Closure and Knowledge Openness : A Study of Epistemic Closure Principles
Abstract : The principle of epistemic closure is the claim that what is known to follow from knowledge is known to be true. This intuitively plausible idea is endorsed by a vast majority of knowledge theorists. There are significant problems, however, that have to be addressed if epistemic closure – closed knowledge – is endorsed. READ MORE
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2. Explanation and deduction : a defence of deductive chauvinism
Abstract : In this essay I defend the notion of deductive explanation mainly against two types of putative counterexamples: those found in genuinely indeterministic systems and those found in complex dynamic systems. Using Railton's notions of explanatory information and ideal explanatory text, deductivism is defended in an indeterministic setting. READ MORE