Re: Theory-laden observation

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For herb,
	Ian Hacking's book REPRESENTING AND INTERVENING (CUP, 1983)
is a mainstream, well-respected analytic philosophy of sci book
subtitled something like introductory lectures on the phil of sci.
He does a lot of nice things but esp gives a hist overview of
post Quine and Kuhn views of rationality, testing, and the like.
Strongly rec.  Hacking ends up an instrumentalist about theories
and their entities - a good, cash-value econ style bottom line.
Witty and concrete as well.  (But takes theory-ladenness as
a well-established consensus view with strong support,
although not as relativistically inclined as Rorty or nasty
anti-empiricist types.
adam lutzker