Understanding philosophy of science /
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| Author / Creator: | Ladyman, James, 1969- |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2002. |
| Description: | xiii, 290 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8393735 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Philosophy of science as epistemology and metaphysics
- Part I. The Scientific Method
- 1. Induction and Inductivism
- 1.1. The sceptic's challenge
- 1.2. The scientific revolution
- 1.3. The 'new tool' of induction
- 1.4. (Naive) inductivism
- Further reading
- 2. The Problem of Induction and Other Problems with Inductivism
- 2.1. The problem of induction
- 2.2. Solutions and dissolutions of the problem of induction
- 2.3. Inductivism and the history of science
- 2.4. Theory and observation
- 2.5. Conclusions
- Further reading
- 3. Falsificationism
- 3.1. Popper and the critique of Marxism and psychoanalysis
- 3.2. Popper's solution to the problem of induction
- 3.3. The context of discovery and the context of justification
- 3.4. The Duhem problem
- 3.5. Problems with falsificationism
- 3.6. Conclusions
- Further reading
- 4. Revolutions and Rationality
- 4.1. The received view of science
- 4.2. Kuhn's revolutionary history of science
- 4.3. Paradigms and normal science
- 4.4. The Copernican revolution
- 4.5. Theory and observation
- 4.6. Incommensurability
- 4.7. Relativism and the role of reason in science
- Further reading
- Part II. Realism and Antirealism About Science
- 5. Scientific Realism
- 5.1. Appearance and reality
- 5.2. The metaphysics of the external world
- 5.3. Semantics
- 5.4. Standard scientific realism
- 5.5. Antirealism
- Further reading
- 6. Underdetermination
- 6.1. Underdetermination
- 6.2. Constructive empiricism
- Further reading
- 7. Explanation and Inference
- 7.1. Explanation
- 7.2. Inference to the best explanation
- 7.3. Common sense, realism and constructive empiricism
- Further reading
- 8. Realism About What?
- 8.1. Theory change
- 8.2. Multiple models
- 8.3. Idealisation
- 8.4. Structural realism
- Further reading
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
