search for books and compare prices
Tables of Contents for Understanding Philosophy of Science
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
Acknowledgements
xiii
Introduction
1
4
Philosophy of Science as Epistemology and metaphysics
5
6
PART I THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD
Induction and Inductivism
11
20
The sceptic's challenge
11
3
The scientific revolution
14
4
The `new tool' of induction
18
9
(Naive) inductivism
27
4
Further reading
30
1
The Problem of Induction and Other Problems with Inductivism
31
31
The problem of induction
32
8
Solutions and dissolutions of the problem of induction
40
12
Inductivism and the history of science
52
4
Theory and observation
56
2
Conclusions
58
4
Further reading
61
1
Falsificationism
62
31
Popper and the critique of Marxism and psychoanalysis
64
5
Popper's solution to the problem of induction
69
5
The context of discovery and the context of justification
74
3
The Duhem problem
77
4
Problems with falsificationism
81
8
Conclusions
89
4
Further reading
91
2
Revolutions and Rationality
93
36
The received view of science
94
2
Kuhn's revolutionary history of science
96
2
Paradigms and normal science
98
7
The copernican revolution
105
4
Theory and observation
109
6
Incommensurability
115
3
Relativism and the role of reason in science
118
11
Further reading
123
6
PART II REALISM AND ANTIREALISM ABOUT SCIENCE
Scientific Realism
129
33
Appearance and reality
131
7
The metaphysics of the external world
138
8
Semantics
146
12
Standard scientific realism
158
1
Antirealism
159
3
Further reading
160
2
Underdetermination
162
34
Underdetermination
162
23
Constructive empiricism
185
11
Further reading
194
2
Explanation and Inference
196
34
Explanation
198
11
Inference to the best explanation
209
16
Common sense, realism and constructive empiricism
225
5
Further reading
228
2
Realism About What?
230
34
Theory change
230
22
Multiple models
252
5
Idealisation
257
3
Structural realism
260
4
Further reading
262
2
Glossary
264
6
Bibliography
270
6
Index
276
<