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  • Lectures on Inductive Logic

    by Jon Williamson ...
    Logic is a field studied mainly by researchers and students of philosophy, mathematics and computing. Inductive logic seeks to determine the extent to which the premisses of an argument entail its conclusion, aiming to provide a theory of how one should reason in the face of uncertainty. It has applications to decision making and artificial intelligence, as well as how scientists should reason ... Read more

    $77.39 USD

  • Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences

    by Yafeng Shan, Jon Williamson ...
    Series series Philosophy and Method in the Social Sciences
    This volume contends that Evidential Pluralism—an account of the epistemology of causation, which maintains that in order to establish a causal claim one needs to establish the existence of a correlation and the existence of a mechanism—can be fruitfully applied to the social sciences. Through case studies in sociology, economics, political science and law, it advances new philosophical ... Read more

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  • Evaluating Evidence of Mechanisms in Medicine

    Principles and Procedures

    by Veli-Pekka Parkkinen, Christian Wallmann, Michael Wilde, Brendan Clarke, Phyllis Illari, Michael P Kelly, Charles Norell, Federica Russo, Beth Shaw, Jon Williamson ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC BY license.This book is the first to develop explicit methods for evaluating evidence of mechanisms in the field of medicine. It explains why it can be important to make this evidence explicit, and describes how to take such evidence into account in the evidence appraisal process. In addition, it develops procedures for seeking evidence of mechanisms, for ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to the Philosophy of Methodology

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    This book provides students with a concise introduction to the philosophy of methodology. The book stands apart from existing methodology texts by clarifying in a student-friendly and engaging way distinctions between philosophical positions, paradigms of inquiry, methodology and methods. Building an understanding of the relationships and distinctions between philosophical positions and paradigms ... Read more

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  • Medical Nihilism

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    This book argues that if we consider the ubiquity of small effect sizes in medicine, the extent of misleading evidence in medical research, the thin theoretical basis of many interventions, and the malleability of empirical methods, and if we employ our best inductive framework, then our confidence in medical interventions ought to be low. ... Read more

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  • Modern Epidemiology

    by Timothy L. Lash, Tyler J. VanderWeele, Sebastien Haneause, Kenneth Rothman ...
    Now in a fully revised Fourth Edition, Modern Epidemiology remains the gold standard text in this complex and evolving field. This edition continues to provide comprehensive coverage of the principles and methods for the design, analysis, and interpretation of epidemiologic research. Featuring a new format allowing space for margin notes, this edition • Reflects both the conceptual development of ... Read more

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  • Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry

    The Birth of Postpsychiatry

    by Bradley Lewis ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    "Interesting and fresh-represents an important and vigorous challenge to a discipline that at the moment is stuck in its own devices and needs a radical critique to begin to move ahead."--Paul McHugh, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine"Remarkable in its breadth-an interesting and valuable contribution to the burgeoning literature of the philosophy of psychiatry."--Christian Perring, ... Read more

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  • Vygotsky and Research

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  • Going Beyond the Theory/Practice Divide in Early Childhood Education

    Introducing an Intra-Active Pedagogy

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  • The Psychology of Ageing

    An Introduction

    by Ian Stuart-Hamilton ...
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  • Meta-Ethnography

    Synthesizing Qualitative Studies

    by George W. Noblit, R . Dwight Hare ...
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