Introduction to the philosophy of science

著者

• O'Hear, Anthony

書誌事項

Introduction to the philosophy of science

Anthony O'Hear

Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1989

• : pbk

タイトル別名

An introduction to the philosophy of science

注記

Bibliography: p. [233]-236

Includes index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780198248132

内容説明

This book is a balanced and up-to-date introduction to the philosophy of science. It covers all the main topics in the area, as well as introducing the student to the moral and social reality of science. The author's style is free from jargon, and although he makes use of scientific examples, these should be intelligible to those without much scientific background. At the same time the questions he raises are not merely abstract, so the book will be of interest and concern to scientists as well as philosophers. The author discusses the growth of knowledge of science, the status of scientific theories and their relationship to observational data, the extent to which scientific theories rest on unprovable paradigms, and the nature of scientific explanations. In later chapters he considers probability, scientific reductionism, the relationship between science and technology, and the relationship between scientific and other values.

目次

• Part 1 Science as an intellectual activity: growth of knowledge
• objectivity and the external world
• prediction and explanation. Part 2 Induction: Baconian induction
• presuppositionless observation
• the role of imagination in scientific theorizing
• inductive proof. Part 3 Falsification: Popperian philosophy of science
• a Bayesian approach. Part 4 Science and non-science: the demarcation criterion
• are theories ever falsified?
• Kuhnian relativism
• the relationship between the history and philosophy of science. Part 5 Observation and theory: observational common ground between theories
• observation and theory
• empiricism
• unobservability and underdetermination of theory by data. Part 6 Scientific realism: positivism
• the inference to best explanation
• scientific laws and the representation of reality
• the absolute view of the world
• partial pictures - Schrodinger's cat. Part 7 Probability: probabilistic explanations
• interpretations of probability. Part 8 Scientific reductions: reductions in the physical sciences
• criteria for reduction. Part 9 Science and culture: science as mythology
• myths and science
• science and technology
• science and value.

巻冊次

ISBN 9780198248149

内容説明

This introduction to the philosophy of science covers all the main topics in the area, as well as introducing the student to the moral and social reality of science. The author discusses the growth of knowledge of science, the status of scientific theories and their relationship to observational data, the extent to which scientific theories rest on unprovable paradigms, and the nature of scientific explanations. In later chapters the text considers probability, scientific reductionism, the relationship between science and technology and the relationship between scientific and other values. The author addresses the subject in a concise, jargon-free style so that the book should be of interest and concern to scientists as well as philosophers.

目次

• Part 1 Science as an intellectual activity: growth of knowledge
• objectivity and the external world
• prediction and explanation. Part 2 Induction: Baconian induction
• presuppositionless observation
• the role of imagination in scientific theorizing
• inductive proof. Part 3 Falsification: Popperian philosophy of science
• a Bayesian approach. Part 4 Science and non-science: the demarcation criterion
• are theories ever falsified?
• Kuhnian relativism
• the relationship between the history and philosophy of science. Part 5 Observation and theory: observational common ground between theories
• observation and theory
• empiricism
• unobservability and underdetermination of theory by data. Part 6 Scientific realism: positivism
• the inference to best explanation
• scientific laws and the representation of reality
• the absolute view of the world
• partial pictures - Schrodinger's cat. Part 7 Probability: probabilistic explanations
• interpretations of probability. Part 8 Scientific reductions: reductions in the physical sciences
• criteria for reduction. Part 9 Science and culture: science as mythology
• myths and science
• science and technology
• science and value.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA06957763
• ISBN:
  • 0198248148
  • 019824813X
• LCCN: 88028884
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Oxford,Oxford ; New York
• ページ数/冊数: x, 239 p.
• 大きさ: 20 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : Q175
  • DC19 : 501
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Science -- Philosophy
  • LCSH : Science -- Methodology