Historical and philosophical context | p. 1 |
The epistemology of science after Quine | p. 3 |
The history of philosophy and the philosophy of science | p. 15 |
Metaphysics | p. 26 |
Philosophy of language | p. 36 |
The role of logic in philosophy of science | p. 47 |
Critical rationalism | p. 58 |
The historical turn in the philosophy of science | p. 67 |
Logical empiricism | p. 78 |
Pragmatism and science | p. 91 |
Debates | p. 101 |
Bayesianism | p. 103 |
Confirmation | p. 115 |
Empiricism | p. 129 |
Essentialism and natural kinds | p. 139 |
Ethics of science | p. 149 |
Experiment | p. 159 |
Explanation | p. 171 |
The feminist approach to the philosophy of science | p. 182 |
Inference to the best explanation | p. 193 |
Laws of nature | p. 203 |
Naturalism | p. 213 |
Realism/anti-realism | p. 224 |
Relativism about science | p. 236 |
Scientific method | p. 248 |
Social studies of science | p. 259 |
The structure of theories | p. 269 |
Theory-change in science | p. 281 |
Underdetermination | p. 292 |
Values in science | p. 302 |
Concepts | p. 315 |
Causation | p. 317 |
Determinism | p. 327 |
Evidence | p. 337 |
Function | p. 349 |
Idealization | p. 358 |
Measurement | p. 367 |
Mechanisms | p. 376 |
Models Demetris Portides | p. 385 |
Observation | p. 396 |
Prediction | p. 405 |
Probability | p. 414 |
Reduction | p. 425 |
Representation in science | p. 435 |
Scientific discovery | p. 442 |
Space and time | p. 452 |
Symmetry | p. 468 |
Truthlikeness | p. 478 |
Unification | p. 489 |
The virtues of a good theory | p. 498 |
Individual sciences | p. 509 |
Biology | p. 511 |
Chemistry | p. 520 |
Cognitive science | p. 531 |
Economics | p. 543 |
Mathematics | p. 555 |
Physics | p. 567 |
Psychology | p. 581 |
Social sciences | p. 594 |
Index | p. 605 |
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