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Philosophy of Science: The Central Issues Second Edition [Pehme köide]

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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 1424 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 236x142x41 mm, kaal: 1066 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 20-Sep-2012
  • Kirjastus: WW Norton & Co
  • ISBN-10: 039391903X
  • ISBN-13: 9780393919035
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  • ISBN-10: 039391903X
  • ISBN-13: 9780393919035
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An academic anthology which explores the modern philosophical questions arising from scientific inquiry, this 2d edition is especially useful for use in introductory courses. It includes commentaries to each chapter, in addition to chapter-specific bibliographies, to aid study. The book approaches a wide range of subjects of philosophic inquiry into the natural sciences, including rationality, objectivity, specific theses and approaches, models of explanation, laws of nature, empiricism, and a variety of others. The book begins with a selection of essays exploring the definition of science and pseudoscience and culminates with several essays on realism. The majority of the essays have been previously published in books and professional journals. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

A flexible and comprehensive introduction to the main currents in philosophy of science.

Both an anthology and an introductory textbook, Philosophy of Science: The Central Issues offers instructors and students a comprehensive anthology of fifty-two primary texts by leading philosophers in the field and provides extensive editorial commentary that places the readings in a wide philosophical context.
Preface xv
General Introduction xvii
1 Science and Pseudoscience
Introduction
1(52)
Science: Conjectures and Refutations
3(8)
Karl Popper
Logic of Discovery or Psychology of Research?
11(9)
Thomas S. Kuhn
Science and Pseudoscience
20(7)
Imre Lakatos
Why Astrology Is a Pseudoscience
27(10)
Paul R. Thagard
Creation-Science Is Not Science
37(10)
Michael Ruse
Commentary: Science at the Bar---Causes for Concern
47(6)
Larry Laudan
Commentary
53(22)
2 Rationality, Objectivity, and Values in Science
Introduction
75(108)
The Nature and Necessity of Scientific Revolutions
79(15)
Thomas S. Kuhn
Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice
94(17)
Thomas S. Kuhn
Rationality and Paradigm Change in Science
111(20)
Ernan McMullin
Kuhn's Critique of Methodology
131(13)
Larry Laudan
Values and Objectivity
144(21)
Helen E. Longino
Gender and the Biological Sciences
165(18)
Kathleen Okruhlik
Commentary
183(42)
3 The Duhem-Quine Thesis and Underdetermination
Introduction
225(108)
Physical Theory and Experiment
227(23)
Pierre Duhem
Two Dogmas of Empiricism
250(21)
W. V. Quine
The Duhem Thesis and the Quine Thesis
271(17)
Donald Gillies
Demystifying Underdetermination
288(33)
Larry Laudan
The Duhem Problem
321(12)
Colin Howson
Peter Urbach
Commentary
333(54)
4 Induction, Prediction, and Evidence
Introduction
387(70)
Induction
390(16)
Peter Lipton
The Problem of Induction
406(6)
Karl Popper
Rational Prediction
412(12)
Wesley C. Salmon
Criteria of Confirmation and Acceptability
424(15)
Carl G. Hempel
Explanation v. Prediction: Which Carries More Weight?
439(12)
Peter Achinstein
The New Riddle of Induction
451(6)
Nelson Goodman
Commentary
457(58)
5 Confirmation and Relevance: Bayesian Approaches
Introduction
515(82)
Rationality and Objectivity in Science or Tom Kuhn Meets Tom Bayes
518(32)
Wesley C. Salmon
A Critique of Salmon's Bayesian Way
550(15)
Deborah G. Mayo
The Bayesian Approach
565(14)
Alan Chalmers
Therapeutic Bayesianism
579(18)
Paul Horwich
Commentary
597(60)
6 Models of Explanation
Two Basic Types of Scientific Explanation
657(10)
Carl G. Hempel
The Thesis of Structural Identity
667(10)
Carl G. Hempel
Inductive-Statistical Explanation
677(14)
Carl G. Hempel
A Deductive-Nomological Model of Probabilistic Explanation
691(20)
Peter Railton
Explanatory Unification
711(24)
Philip Kitcher
The Manipulability Conception of Causal Explanation
735(19)
James Woodward
Commentary
754(59)
7 Laws of Nature
Introduction
813(72)
What Is a Law of Nature?
816(17)
A. J. Ayer
Laws of Nature
833(20)
Fred I. Dretske
Necessities and Universals in Natural Laws
853(18)
D. H. Mellor
Do the Laws of Physics State the Facts?
871(14)
Nancy Cartwright
Commentary
885(24)
8 Intertheoretic Reduction
Introduction
909(94)
Issues in the Logic of Reductive Explanations
911(16)
Ernest Nagel
How to Be a Good Empiricist---A Plea for Tolerance in Matters Epistemological
927(27)
Paul K. Feyerabend
Special Sciences (or: The Disunity of Science as a Working Hypothesis)
954(16)
Jerry A. Fodor
1953 and All That: A Tale of Two Sciences
970(33)
Philip Kitcher
Commentary
1003(42)
9 Empiricism and Scientific Realism
Introduction
1045
The Ontological Status of Theoretical Entities
1049(11)
Grover Maxwell
Arguments Concerning Scientific Realism
1060(23)
Bas C. van Fraassen
Realism versus Constructive Empiricism
1083(25)
Alan Musgrave
A Confutation of Convergent Realism
1108(21)
Larry Laudan
On the Pessimistic Induction and Two Fallacies
1129(11)
Juha T. Saatsi
Experimentation and Scientific Realism
1140(16)
Ian Hacking
Hacking's Experimental Realism
1156(16)
David B. Resnik
What Is Right with the Miracle Argument: Establishing a Taxonomy of Natural Kinds
1172(19)
Martin Carrier
The Natural Ontological Attitude
1191
Arthur Fine
J. A. Cover is professor of philosophy at Purdue University. Leaving a research post after completing a B.S. in biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California, Davis, he took a B.A. in philosophy at Syracuse University, where he later received his M.A. and Ph.D. Published widely in journals and books on issues in early modern philosophy, metaphysics, and philosophy of science, he is coeditor of Central Themes in Early Modern Philosophy (Hackett, 1990), coauthor of Theories of Knowledge and Reality, Second Edition (McGraw-Hill, 1994), coauthor of Leibniz on Substance and Individuation (Cambridge, 1999), and coeditor of Leibniz: Nature and Freedom (Oxford, 2005). Martin Curd is associate professor of philosophy at Purdue University. He has a B.A. in natural sciences from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. in history and philosophy of science from the University of Pittsburgh. Working mainly in philosophy of science and epistemology, he is coeditor of The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science (2008). Christopher Pincock is associate professor of philosophy at The Ohio State University. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002. Pincock has published articles in the philosophy of science, the philosophy of mathematics and the history of analytic philosophy. His book Mathematics and Scientific Representation (Oxford) was published in 2012.