Explanation, inference, testimony, and truth: essays dedicated to the memory of Peter Lipton

摘要

This special issue of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science is dedicated to the memory of a long-serving and most assiduous Advisory Editor of the journal: Peter Lipton (1954-2007), first Hans Rausing Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, and cherished friend and mentor to a large proportion of those who had the good fortune to meet him, in academia, and in many communities beyond.rnUpton's scholarly interests were largely grounded in the philosophy of science and epistemology, focusing on central issues at the intersection of these fields, including the nature of inductive inference, causal models of explanation, the epistemology of testimony, the analysis of laws of nature and, not least-always in the background and sometimes the foreground-arguments for and against scientific realism.