Robert Pierson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5723198 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Pierson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Pierson |
| SIGNATURE | PIERSON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Government of Saskatchewan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Explanatory warrant for scientific realism
Hacking's Experimental Realism
As Laudan and Fine show, and Boyd concedes, the attempt to infer the truth of scientific realism from the fact that it putatively provides the best explanation of the instrumental success of science is circular, since what is to be shown is precisely the legitimacy of such abductive inferences. Hacking's “experimental argument for scientific realism about entities” is one of the few arguments for scientific realism that purports to avoid this cir…
The Socio-Educational Model of Second Language Acquisition
Linear Structural Relations analysis (LISREL) was used to examine the adequacy of a causal model of second language acquisition. A total of 18 variables were investigated using 140 students enrolled in one of two first year university French courses in a unilingual anglophone city. The model under investigation linked cultural beliefs, attitudes, motivation, situational anxiety, and prior achievement to proficiency in a second language. The resul…
The Socio-Educational Model of Second Language Acquisition
Linear Structural Relations analysis (LISREL) was used to examine the adequacy of a causal model of second language acquisition. A total of 18 variables were investigated using 140 students enrolled in one of two first year university French courses in a unilingual anglophone city. The model under investigation linked cultural beliefs, attitudes, motivation, situational anxiety, and prior achievement to proficiency in a second language. The resul…
Hacking's Experimental Realism
As Laudan and Fine show, and Boyd concedes, the attempt to infer the truth of scientific realism from the fact that it putatively provides the best explanation of the instrumental success of science is circular, since what is to be shown is precisely the legitimacy of such abductive inferences. Hacking's “experimental argument for scientific realism about entities” is one of the few arguments for scientific realism that purports to avoid this cir…
The Socio-Educational Model of Second Language Acquisition
Linear Structural Relations analysis (LISREL) was used to examine the adequacy of a causal model of second language acquisition. A total of 18 variables were investigated using 140 students enrolled in one of two first year university French courses in a unilingual anglophone city. The model under investigation linked cultural beliefs, attitudes, motivation, situational anxiety, and prior achievement to proficiency in a second language. The resul…
Hacking's Experimental Realism
As Laudan and Fine show, and Boyd concedes, the attempt to infer the truth of scientific realism from the fact that it putatively provides the best explanation of the instrumental success of science is circular, since what is to be shown is precisely the legitimacy of such abductive inferences. Hacking's “experimental argument for scientific realism about entities” is one of the few arguments for scientific realism that purports to avoid this cir…
Explanatory warrant for scientific realism
Computer Science (3 works) · Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Inference (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (2 works) · Philosophy of science (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Realism (2 works)