Unmatched in the quality of its world-renowned contributors, this companion serves as both a course text and a reference book across the broad spectrum of issues of concern to the philosophy of science.List of Contributors.
Preface.
List of Logical Symbols.
Introduction.
1. Axiomatization (Frederick Suppe).
2. Berkeley (M. Hughes).
3. Biology (Paul Thompson).
4. Bohr (Dugald Murdoch).
5. Causation (Paul Humphreys).
6. Cognitive Approaches to Science (Ronald N. Giere).
7. Computing (Leslie Burkholder).
8. Confirmation, Paradoxes of (J.D. Trout).
9. Convention, Role of (Lawrence Sklar).
10. Craig's Theorem (Frederick Suppe).
11. Darwin (Samir Okasha).
12. Definitions (Frederick Suppe).
13. Descartes (Tom Sorell).
14. Discovery (Thomas Nickles).
15. Dispositions and Powers (Rom Harre).
16. Einstein (Christopher Ray).
17. Evidence and Confirmation (Colin Howson).
18. Experiment (David C. Gooding).
19. Explanation (W. H. Newton-Smith).
20. Feminist Accounts of Science (Kathleen Okruhlik).
21. Feyerabend (John Preston).
22. Galileo (Robert AE. Butts).
23. History, Role in the Philosophy of Science (Brendsan Larvor).
24. Holism (Christopher Hookway).
25. Hume (W. H. Newton-Smith).
26. Idealization (Yemima Ben-Menahem).
27. Incommensurability (Muhammad Ali Khalidi).
28. Induction and the Uniformity of Nature (Colin Howson).
29. Inference to the best Explanation (Peter Lipton).
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