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1 online resource (619 pages) |
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Routledge philosophy companions |
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Routledge philosophy companions.
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| Contents |
Part PART I Historical and philosophical context -- chapter 1 THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF SCIENCE AFTER QUINE / PAUL A. ROTH -- chapter 2 THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE / JOANNE WAUGH -- chapter 3 METAPHYSICS / STEPHEN MUMFORD -- chapter 4 PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE / ROD BERTOLET -- chapter 5 THE ROLE OF LOGIC IN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE -- chapter 6 CRITICAL RATIONALISM -- chapter 7 THE HISTORICAL TURN IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE / ALEXANDER BIRD -- chapter 8 LOGICAL EMPIRICISM / THOMAS UEBEL -- chapter 9 PRAGMATISM AND SCIENCE / ROBERT ALMEDER -- part PART II Debates -- chapter 10 BAYESIANISM / COLIN HOWSON -- chapter 11 Confirmation ALAN HÁJEk AND JAMES M. JOYCE -- chapter 12 EMPIRICISM / ELLIOTT SOBER -- chapter 13 ESSENTIALISM AND NATURAL KINDS / BRIAN ELLIS -- chapter 14 ETHICS OF SCIENCE / DAvID B. RESNIk -- chapter 15 EXPERIMENT -- chapter 16 EXPLANATION / JAMES WOODWARD -- chapter 17 The feminist approach to the philosophy of science CASSANDRA L. PINNICk -- chapter 18 INFERENCE TO THE BEST EXPLANATION / PETER LIPTON -- chapter 19 LAWS OF NATURE / MARC LANGE -- chapter 20 NATURALISM / RONALD N. GIERE -- chapter 21 REALISM/ANTI-REALISM -- chapter 22 RELATIVISM ABOUT SCIENCE / MARIA BAGHRAMIAN -- chapter 23 SCIENTIFIC METHOD -- chapter 24 SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE / ROBERT NOLA -- chapter 25 THE STRUCTURE OF THEORIES -- chapter 26 THEORY-CHANGE IN SCIENCE / JOHN WORRALL -- chapter 27 UNDERDETERMINATION -- chapter 28 VALUES IN SCIENCE / GERALD DOPPELT -- part PART III Concepts -- chapter 29 CAUSATION -- chapter 30 DETERMINISM / BARRY LOEWER -- chapter 31 EVIDENCE / PETER ACHINSTEIN -- chapter 32 FUNCTION / D.M. WALSH -- chapter 33 IDEALIZATION / JAMES LADYMAN -- chapter 34 Measurement HASOk CHANG AND NANCY CARTWRIGHT -- chapter 35 MECHANISMS / STUART GLENNAN -- chapter 36 MODELS / DEMETRIS PORTIDES -- chapter 37 Observation ANDRé kUkLA -- chapter 38 PREDICTION / MALCOLM FORSTER -- chapter 39 PROBABILITY -- chapter 40 REDUCTION -- chapter 41 REPRESENTATION IN SCIENCE / PAUL TELLER -- chapter 42 SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY -- chapter 43 Space and time OLIvER POOLEY -- chapter 44 SYMMETRY / MARGARET MORRISON -- chapter 45 TRUTHLIKENESS / GRAHAM ODDIE -- chapter 46 UNIFICATION / TODD JONES -- chapter 47 THE VIRTUES OF A GOOD THEORY / ERNAN MCMULLIN -- part PART IV Individual sciences -- chapter 48 BIOLOGY / ALEXANDER ROSENBERG -- chapter 49 CHEMISTRY / ROBIN FINDLAY HENDRY -- chapter 50 COGNITIVE SCIENCE / PAUL THAGARD -- chapter 51 Economics USkALI MÄkI -- chapter 52 Mathematics PETER CLARk -- chapter 53 PHYSICS / SIMON SAUNDERS -- chapter 54 PSYCHOLOGY / RICHARD SAMUELS -- chapter 55 Social sciences HAROLD kINCAID |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Science -- Philosophy.
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SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
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Science -- Philosophy
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Vetenskapsteori.
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dissertations.
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Academic theses
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Academic theses.
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Thèses et écrits académiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Psillos, Stathis, 1965-
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Curd, Martin.
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| ISBN |
9780203000502 |
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0203000501 |
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9780415354035 |
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041535403X |
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9780415546133 |
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0415546133 |
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9786611142483 |
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6611142487 |
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