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Philosophy of Science: The Key Thinkers
About this book
All the great philosophers from Plato and Aristotle to the present day have been philosophers of science. However, this book concentrates on modern philosophy of science, starting in the nineteenth century and offering coverage of all the leading thinkers in the field including Whewell, Mill, Reichenbach, Carnap, Popper, Feyerabend, Putnam, van Fraassen, Bloor, Latour, Hacking, Cartwright and many more. Crucially the book demonstrates how the ideas and arguments of these key thinkers have contributed to our understanding of such central issues as experience and necessity, conventionalism, logical empiricism, induction and falsification, the sociology of science, and realism. Ideal for undergraduate students, the book lays the necessary foundations for a complete and thorough understanding of this fascinating subject.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1 EXPERIENCE AND NECESSITY: THE MILL-WHEWELL DEBATE
- CHAPTER 2 CONVENTIONALISM: POINCARÉ, DUHEM, REICHENBACH
- CHAPTER 3 THE VIENNA CIRCLE: MORITZ SCHLICK, OTTO NEURATH AND RUDOLF CARNAP
- CHAPTER 4 CARL G. HEMPEL: LOGICAL EMPIRICIST
- CHAPTER 5 ANTI-INDUCTIVISM AS WORLDVIEW: THE PHILOSOPHY OF KARL POPPER
- CHAPTER 6 HISTORICAL APPROACHES: KUHN, LAKATOS AND FEYERABEND
- CHAPTER 7 THE CONTINGENCY OF THE CAUSAL NEXUS: GHAZALI AND MODERN SCIENCE
- CHAPTER 8 SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE: BLOOR, COLLINS, LATOUR
- CHAPTER 9 ONE CANNOT BE JUST A LITTLE BIT REALIST: PUTNAM AND VAN FRAASSEN*
- CHAPTER 10 BEYOND THEORIES: CARTWRIGHT AND HACKING
- CHAPTER 11 FEMINIST CRITIQUES: HARDING AND LONGINO
- AFTERWORD
- Index
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