Description: Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: The Positivist Model of Scientific Theories and Its Problems Section 1. Logic, Language, and the Observational/Theoretical Distinction 1. Alexander Rosenberg, The Rise of Logical Positivism 2. Frederick Suppe, The Positivist Model of Scientific Theories 3. Hilary Putnam, Problems with the Observational/Theoretical Distinction 4. Grover Maxwell, Theoretical Entities 5. Bas Van Fraassen, A Defense of the Observational/Theoretical Distinction 6. Technical Interlude: Carl Hempel, A Critique of Operationalism Section 2. The Underdetermination of Theory and Holism 7. Pierre Dunhem, Physical Theory and Experiment 8. Sir Karl Popper, Falsification 9. W.V. Quine, Holism, Part 1: Two Dogmas of Empiricism 10. W.V. Quine, Holism, Part 2: Posits and Reality 11. Technical Interlude: Larry Laudan, A Critique of Underdetermination Section 3. Reductionism, Antireductionism, and Scientific Explanation 12. Ernest Nagel, A Model of Intertheoretic Reduction 13. Paul Oppenheim and Hilary Putnam, Unity of Science 14. Jerry Fodor, A Critique of Physiological Reductionism 15. Technical Interlude: Jaegwon Kim, The Nature of Supervenience 16. Carl G. Hempel and Paul Oppenheim, The Deductive-Nomological Model of Scientific Explanation 17. Philip Kitcher, The Unification Model of Scientific Explanation 18. Technical Interlude: Paul Humphreys, The Aleatory Model of Scientific Explanation Part II: Historicism and Its Aftermath Section 4. The Kuhnian Model of Science 19. Thomas Kuhn, The Nature of Normal Science 20. Thomas Kuhn, The Nature of Revolutionary Science 21. Ian Hacking, The Rationality of Science After Kuhn 22. Polemical Interlude: Paul Feyerabend, An Argument Against Method Section 5. Social Constructivism and Feminism 23. David Bloor, The Strong Programme in the Sociology of Science 24. Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar, A Social Constructivist Field Study 25. James Robert Brown, A Critique of Social Constructivism 26. Polemical Interlude: Paul Boghossian, The Sokal Hoax 27. Sandra Harding, Feminist Science Criticism 28. Cassandra Pinnick, Problems with Feminist Epistemology 29. Polemical Interlude: Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt, A Critique of Feminist Science Criticism Section 6. Realism and Antirealism 30. Hilary Putnam, Realism in Mathematics and Elsewhere 31. Bas van Fraassen, Alternatives to Realism 32. Philip Kitcher, Realism and Scientific Progress 33. James Robert Brown, Realism, Antirealism, and NOA 34. Polemical Interlude: Alan Musgrave, Idealism and Antirealism

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