Philosophy of Earth Science

Philosophies of the Sciences: A Guide

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 213-236

  Kleinhans, Maarten G ^a   Buskes, Chris J J ^b   De Regt, Henk W ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Autonomy of earth science; Correlation of time and length scale of earth scientific phenomena; Earth science sub disciplines with different aims; Earth science and predictions of phenomena on earth and earth like planets; Explanation in earth science inference to the best explanation; Historical sciences and descriptive aims; Nomological sciences associated with explanatory aims; Philosophical analysis of earth science; Philosophy of earth science; Theories of earth science hypotheses about unobservable events or generalized

Indexed keywords

EID: 70849114085     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444315578.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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