| Description |
xiii, 522 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Routledge contemporary readings in philosophy |
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Routledge contemporary readings in philosophy.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I Science and Philosophy -- 1 Moritz Schlick, "The Future of Philosophy" 8 -- 2 Alex Rosenberg, "Biology and Its Philosophy" 22 -- Part II Explanation, Causation, and Laws -- 3 Carl Hempel, "Two Models of Scientific Explanation" 45 -- 4 Bas van Fraassen, "The Pragmatics of Explanation" 56 -- 5 Philip Kitcher, "Explanatory Unification and the Causal Structure of the World" 71 -- 6 Wesley C. Salmon, "Scientific Explanation: Causation and Unification" 92 -- 7 J.L. Mackie, "The Logic of Conditionals" 106 -- 8 John Earman, "Laws of Nature" 115 -- Part III Scientific Theories and Conceptual Change -- 9 Ernest Nagel, "Experimental Laws and Theories" 132 -- 10 Paul Feyerabend, "Explanation, Reduction, and Empiricism" 141 -- 11 Philip Kitcher, "Theories, Theorists and Theoretical Change" 163 -- Part IV Scientific Realism -- 12 Ernest Nagel, "The Cognitive Status of Theories" 197 -- 13 Larry Laudan, "A Confutation of Convergent Realism" 211 -- 14 Gary Gutting, "Scientific Realism versus Constructive Empiricism: A Dialogue" 234 -- 15 Ernan McMullin, "A Case for Scientific Realism" 248 -- Part V Testing and Confirmation of Theories -- 16 Bertrand Russell, "On Induction" 289 -- 17 Karl Popper, "Science: Conjectures and Refutations" 294 -- 18 Karl Popper, "Darwinism as a Metaphysical Research Programme" 302 -- 19 Charles Darwin, "Difficulties of the Theory" 305 -- 20 Peter Achinstein, "The Grue Paradox" 307 -- 21 N. Russell Hanson, "Seeing and Seeing As" 321 -- 22 W.V. Quine, "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" 340 -- 23 Larry Laudan and Jarrett Leplin, "Empirical Equivalence and Underdetermination" 362 -- 24 Wesley Salmon, "Bayes's Theorem and The History of Science" 385 -- Part VI Science in Context: The Challenge of History and Sociology -- 25 Dudley Shapere, "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" 410 -- 26 Thomas Kuhn, "Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice" 421 -- 27 David Bloor, "The Strong Programme in the Sociology of Knowledge" 438 -- 28 Elizabeth Anderson, "Feminist Epistemology: An Interpretation and a Defense" 459 -- 29 Ernan McMullin, "The Social Dimensions of Science" 489. |
| Subject |
Science -- Philosophy.
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| Added Author |
Balashov, Yuri, 1960-
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Rosenberg, Alexander, 1946-
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| ISBN |
0415257816 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
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9780415257817 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
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0415257824 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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9780415257824 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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