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9781441128812

Philosophy of Science

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    9781441128812

  • ISBN10:

    1441128816

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2012-04-19
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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A guide to the key figures in the Philosophy of Science from Plato and Aristotle through to Popper, Puttnam and Cartwright.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements \ Notes on Contributors \Preface\ 1. Introduction James Robert Brown \ 2. Experience and Necessity:TheWhewell and Mill Debate Laura Snyder \ 3. Conventionalism: Poincaré, Duhem,Reichenbach Torsten Wilholt \ 4. The ViennaCircle: Moritz Schlick, Rudolf Carnap, Otto Neurath Friedrich Stadler \ 5. Carl G. Hempel: Logical Empiricist Martin Curd \ 6. Anti-Inductivism as Worldview: The Philosophy of Karl PopperSteveFuller \ 7. Historical Approaches: Kuhn, Lakatos and Feyerabend MartinCarrier \ 8. The Contingency of the Causal Nexus: Ghazali and Modern Science Arun Bala \ 9.Sociology ofScience: Bloor, Collins, Latour Martin Kusch \ 10. One Cannot Be Just a Little Bit Realist: Putnam andvan Fraassen Stathis Psillos \ 11. Beyond Theories: Hacking andCartwright William Seager \ 12. Feminist Critiques: Hardingand Longino Janet Kourany \ Afterword\ Index.

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