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Understanding philosophy of science /
A comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of science. Introduces the key topics, such as the scientific method, rationalism and empiricism, as well as more advanced topics such as realism and antirealism.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : philosophy of science as epistemology and metaphysics
- pt. 1. The scientific method
- 1. Induction and inductivism
- The sceptic's challenge
- The scientific revolution
- The 'new tool' of induction
- (Naïve) inductivism
- 2. The problem of induction and other problems with inductivism
- The problem of induction
- Solutions and dissolutions of the problem of induction
- Inductivism and the history of science
- Theory and observation
- Conclusions
- 3. Falsificationism
- Popper and the critique of Marxism and psychoanalysis
- Popper's solution to the problem of induction
- The context of discovery and the context of justification
- The Duhem problem
- Problems with Falsificationism
- Conclusions
- 4. Revolutions and rationality
- The received view of science
- Kuhn's revolutionary history of science
- paradigms and normal science
- The Copernican revolution
- Theory and observation
- Incommensurability
- Relativism and the role of reason in science
- pt. 2. Realism and antirealism about science
- 5. Scientific realism
- Appearance and reality
- The metaphysics of the external world
- Semantics
- Standard scientific realism
- Antirealism
- 6. Underdetermination
- Underdetermination
- Constructive empiricism
- 7. Explanation and inference
- Explanation
- Inference to the best explanation
- Common sense, realism and constructive empiricism
- 8. Realism about what
- Theory change
- Multiple models
- Idealisation
- Structural realism.