Description: 1. Introduction Jonathan Wolff 2. Science, philosophy and human life in the Ancient World Bob Sharples 3. Theology, philosophy and 'science' in the thirteenth century: Albert the Great on the 'Hierarchy of the Sciences' M.W.F. Stone 4. The 17th century and the reconstruction of knowledge G.A.J. Rogers 5. The end of hierarchy: physics and metaphysics in the scientific revolution J.R. Milton 6. Science in the service of life: Nietzsche's objectivism Aaron Ridley 7. Pragmatism: common sense and the limits of science Christopher Hookway 8. Husserl and the crisis of the European sciences Dermot Moran 9. Some scientism, some historicism, some critics: Hayek's and Popper's critiques revisited Thomas E. Uebel 10. The rise of physicalism David Papineau 11. Against the Compleatability of science Nancy Cartwright

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