| Description |
xiii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-275) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : philosophy of science as epistemology and metaphysics -- pt. 1. The scientific method -- 1. Induction and inductivism -- The sceptic's challenge -- The scientific revolution -- The 'new tool' of induction - (Naïve) inductivism -- 2. The problem of induction and other problems with inductivism -- The problem of induction -- Solutions and dissolutions of the problem of induction -- Inductivism and the history of science -- Theory and observation -- Conclusions -- 3. Falsificationism -- Popper and the critique of Marxism and psychoanalysis -- Popper's solution to the problem of induction -- The context of discovery and the context of justification -- The Duhem problem -- Problems with Falsificationism -- Conclusions -- 4. Revolutions and rationality -- The received view of science -- Kuhn's revolutionary history of science -- paradigms and normal science -- The Copernican revolution -- Theory and observation -- Incommensurability -- Relativism and the role of reason in science -- pt. 2. Realism and antirealism about science -- 5. Scientific realism -- Appearance and reality -- The metaphysics of the external world -- Semantics -- Standard scientific realism -- Antirealism -- 6. Underdetermination -- Underdetermination -- Constructive empiricism -- 7. Explanation and inference -- Explanation -- Inference to the best explanation -- Common sense, realism and constructive empiricism -- 8. Realism about what -- Theory change -- Multiple models -- Idealisation -- Structural realism. |
| Subject |
Science -- Philosophy.
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Science -- Philosophy. |
| ISBN |
0415221579 paperback alkaline paper |
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0415221560 alkaline paper |
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