Understanding philosophy of science /

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Author / Creator:Ladyman, James, 1969-
Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
Description:xiii, 290 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8393735
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ISBN:0415221560 (hbk)
9780415221566 (hbk)
0415221579 (pbk.)
9780415221573 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-275) and index.

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505 0 0 |t Introduction : philosophy of science as epistemology and metaphysics --  |g pt. 1.  |t The scientific method --  |g 1.  |t Induction and inductivism --  |t The sceptic's challenge --  |t The scientific revolution --  |t The 'new tool' of induction --  |t (Naïve) inductivism --  |g 2.  |t The problem of induction and other problems with inductivism --  |t The problem of induction --  |t Solutions and dissolutions of the problem of induction --  |t Inductivism and the history of science --  |t Theory and observation --  |t Conclusions --  |g 3.  |t Falsificationism --  |t Popper and the critique of Marxism and psychoanalysis --  |t Popper's solution to the problem of induction --  |t The context of discovery and the context of justification --  |t The Duhem problem --  |t Problems with Falsificationism --  |t Conclusions --  |g 4.  |t Revolutions and rationality --  |t The received view of science --  |t Kuhn's revolutionary history of science --  |t paradigms and normal science --  |t The Copernican revolution --  |t Theory and observation --  |t Incommensurability --  |t Relativism and the role of reason in science --  |g pt. 2.  |t Realism and antirealism about science --  |g 5.  |t Scientific realism --  |t Appearance and reality --  |t The metaphysics of the external world --  |t Semantics --  |t Standard scientific realism --  |t Antirealism --  |g 6.  |t Underdetermination --  |t Underdetermination --  |t Constructive empiricism --  |g 7.  |t Explanation and inference --  |t Explanation --  |t Inference to the best explanation --  |t Common sense, realism and constructive empiricism --  |g 8.  |t Realism about what --  |t Theory change --  |t Multiple models --  |t Idealisation --  |t Structural realism. 
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