Readings in the philosophy of science /
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Englewood Cliffs, N.J. :
Prentice Hall,
c1989.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Theories as partially interpreted formal systems / Rudolf Carnap
- A logical appraisal of operationism / Carl G. Hempel
- The ontological status of theoretical entities / Grover Maxwell
- Do we see through a microscope? / Ian Hacking
- Models and theories / Marshall Spector
- To save the phenomena / Bas C. van Fraassen
- The reality of causes in a world of instrumental laws / Nancy Cartwright
- The anti-realist epistemology of van Fraassen's The scientific image / Paul M. Churchland
- Explanation and reference / Hilary Putnam
- And not anti-realism either / Arthur Fine
- How to be a good empiricist : a plea for tolerance in matters epistemological / P.K. Feyerabend
- Reason, reference, and the quest for knowledge / Dudley Shapere.
- Two dogmas of methodology / Larry Laudan
- Studies in the logic of explanation / Carl G. Hempel and Paul Oppenheim
- Statistical explanation and its models / Wesley C. Salmon
- The truth doesn't explain much / Nancy Cartwright
- Towards an Aristotelian theory of scientific explanation / B.A. Brody
- Can there be a model of explanation? / Peter Achinstein
- The pragmatics of explanation / Bas C. van Fraassen
- Causation or explanation / Michael Scriven
- Causes and conditions / J.L. Mackie
- The laws of nature / Hans Reichenbach
- Studies in the logic of confirmation / Carl G. Hempel
- Statistical and inductive probability / Rudolf Carnap
- On inductive logic / Rudolf Carnap
- The new riddle of induction / Nelson Goodman.
- Implications of personal probability for induction / Leonard J. Savage
- The inference to the best explanation / Gilbert H. Harman
- Relevant evidence / Clark Glymour
- The role of crucial experiments in science / Imre Lakatos
- Objectivity, value judgment, and theory choice / Thomas S. Kuhn
- From theories to research traditions / Larry Laudan
- Philosophy of science naturalized / Ronald N. Giere
- Is there a logic of scientific discovery? / Norwood Russell Hanson
- Why was the logic of discovery abandoned? / Larry Laudan
- The logic of discovery : an analysis of three approaches / Martin V. Curd
- The relativity of space / Henri Poincaré
- The nature of geometry / Hans Reichenbach.
- The twin sisters : philosophy and geometry / Wesley C. Salmon
- Mechanistic explanation and organismic biology / Ernest Nagel
- Explanation and teleology / Larry Wright
- Functional analysis / Robert Cummins
- The reduction of teleological sciences / B.A. Brody
- Teleology redux / Michael Ruse.