A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
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- Binding: Paperback
- Edition: 4
- Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
- Publish date: 04/01/2001
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Introduction1. Aristotle's Philosophy of Science2. The Pythagorean Orientation3. The Ideal of Deductive Systemization4. Atomism and the Concept of Underlying Mechanism5. Affirmation and Development of Aristotle's Method in the Medieval Period6. The Debate over Saving the Appearances7. The Seventeenth-Century Attack on Aristotelian Philosophy8. Newton's Axiomatic Method9. Analysis of the Implications of the New Science for a Theory of Scientific Method10. Inductivism v the Hypothetico-Deductive View of Science11. Mathematical Positivism and Conventionlism12. Logical Reconstructivist Philosophy of Science13. Orthodoxy under Attack14. Theories of Scientific Progress15. Explanation, Causation, and Unification16. Confirmation and Evidential Support17. The Justification of Evaluative Standards18. The Debate over Scientific Realism19. Descriptive Philosophies of ScienceBibliographyIndex
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