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Weinert's Review of ‘The Comprehensibility of the Universe’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2001

Nicholas Maxwell
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Abstract

In my book The Comprehensibility of the Universe (OUP, 1998), I argue for a new conception of science that construes science as adopting a hierarchy of increasingly contentless cosmological assumptions about the comprehensibility and knowability of the universe. This view, I argue, solves outstanding problems about science, such as problems of induction, simplicity and verisimilitude. In his essay review of my book (Philosophy75, 2000, 296–309) Friedel Weinert criticizes me for defending a number of views about science. But, as I make clear from quotations from the book, I do not defend the views that Weinert attributes to me.

Type
Research Article
Information
Philosophy , Volume 76 , Issue 2 , April 2001 , pp. 297 - 303
Copyright
© The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2001

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