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Introductory readings in the philosophy of science / edited by E.D. Klemke, Robert Hollinger, David Wÿss Rudge with A. David Kline.
- Title
- Introductory readings in the philosophy of science / edited by E.D. Klemke, Robert Hollinger, David Wÿss Rudge with A. David Kline.
- Publication
- Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1998.
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- Description
- 579 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Philosophy of science
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Science: conjectures and refutations / Sir Karl Popper -- What is science? / John Ziman -- How to defend society against science / Paul Feyerabend -- Why astrology is a pseudoscience / Paul R. Thagard -- Believing where we cannot prove / Philip Kitcher -- Interpretation and the sciences of man / Charles Taylor -- The natural and the human sciences / Thomas S. Kuhn -- Are the social sciences really inferior? -- If economics isn't science, what is it? / Alexander Rosenberg -- What would an adequate philosophy of social science look like? / Brian Fay and J. Donald Moon -- Studies in the logic of explanation / Carl G. Hempel -- Laws and conditional statements / Karel Lambert and Gordon Britten -- The truth doesn't explain much / Nancy Cartwright -- Scientific explanation: How we got from there to here / Wesley Salmon -- The pragmatics of explanation / Bas C. van Fraassen -- Explanatory Unification / Philip Kitcher -- The nature of theories / Rudolf Carnap -- What theories are not / Hilary Putnam -- Observation / N.R. Hanson -- Science and the physical world / W.T. Stace -- Do sub-microscopic entities exist? / Stephen Toulmin -- The ontological status of theoretical entities / Grover Maxwell -- Is there a significant observational -theoretical distinction? / Carl A. Matheson and A. David Kline -- Hypothesis / W.V. Quine and J.S. Ullian -- Justifying scientific theories / Ronald Giere -- Objectivity, value judgment, and theory choice / Thomas S. Kuhn -- Scientific rationality: analytic vs. pragmatic perspectives / Carl G. Hempel -- The variety of reasons for the acceptance of scientific theories / Philipp G. Frank -- The scientist Qua scientist makes value judgments / Richard Rudner -- Science and human values / Carl G. Hempel -- Values in science / Ernan McMullin -- From Weber to Habermas / Robert Hollinger -- The feminist question in the philosophy of science / Ronald Giere.
- ISBN
- 1573922404 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^98008293^
- OCLC
- 39210004
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library