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Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introductionintroduces all the main themes in the philosophy of science, including the nature of causation, explanation, laws, theory, models, evidence, reductionism, probability, teleology, realism and instrumentalism. This substantially revised and updated second edition of a highly successful,
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- Contents
- Part I Background and Basic Concepts
- Preface: philosophy of science for philosophers, scientists, and everyone else
- Plan of the book
- Acknowledgments
List of figures List of tables Preface: philosophy of science for philosophers, scientists, and everyone else Acknowledgments List of abbreviations
Some problems of induction Falsificationism: science without induction? Underdetermination Logical empiricism and scientific theories Kuhn: scientific revolutions as paradigm changes Lakatos: scientific research programs Feyerabend: epistemological anarchism
For better and for worse, in ways both obvious and subtle, the work of scientists has helped to shape the world around us. The obvious impacts of science on our lives include the technologies that depend on scientific research. Our approaches to communicating, eating, becoming or staying healthy, moving from one place to another, reproducing, enter...
This book divides roughly into two parts. The first seven chapters (“Back-ground and basic concepts”) introduce both some important concepts that will be used throughout the discussion and some important figures and move-ments in twentieth-century philosophy of science who have helped shape the discipline and whose ideas remain relevant to current ...
I am very fortunate to have had the opportunity to write this book. I thought that I was simply creating a potentially useful teaching resource for myself and (hopefully) for others. The project turned into an opportunity to revisit long-standing interests and discover some new literature as well. I am grate-ful to Hilary Gaskin at Cambridge Univer...
philosophy of science, when even books on physics or chemistry are not inclined to dedi-cate space to philosophical contemplations. If, as physicist Richard Feynman apparently said, ‘philosophy of science is about as useful to sci-entists as ornithology is to birds’ (unsourced), then it must be even less useful to those who study society.
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8 de nov. de 2021 · PDF | This is a concise presentation of important aspects of modern philosophy of science and humanities. It is based primarily on the Oxford Philosophy... | Find, read and cite all the...
- Jan Helm
The Romantic philosophy of social science is still resolutely practiced in immature sciences such as sociology, where mentalistic description prevails, where quantification and prediction are seldom attempted, and where implementation in social policy is seldom effective and often counterproductive. Positivism followed Romanticism.
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Professor Losee released an expanded fourth edition of his A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Science in 2001. This ambitious volume traces the history of thinking on the nature of the scientific endeavour from its beginning with Aristotle in Ancient Greece, through the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment to the work of contemporary ...
