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CONTENTS

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xv

1. Scientific Speculation: A Pragmatic Approach 1

2. The Complex Story of Simplicity: Ontological

and Epistemic Speculations 68

3. Non-Epistemic Simplicity:Maxwell, Newton,

and Speculation 122

4. Holism vs. Particularism: An Evidential

Debate (“Find the Ether”) 168

5. The Ultimate Speculation: A “Theory of Everything” (What Is It, and Why Should We

Want One?) 216

6. Summing Up 262

Index 273

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Source: Achinstein P.. Speculation: Within and about Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press,2019. — 297 p.. 2019

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