A historical introduction to the philosophy of science
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A historical introduction to the philosophy of science
（OPUS）
Oxford University Press, 1993
3rd ed., revised and enlarged
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. [287]-313
Includes index
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Description
How do theories of science "progress'? What standards must be met by a scientific explanation? How can one evaluate competing theories? Since the time of Plato and Aristotle, scientists and philosophers have raised questions about the proper evaluation of scientific interpretations. This guide is an introduction to the philosophy of science, suitable for readers who may not have the extensive knowledge of formal logic or the history of the several sciences. This new edition includes an extended discussion of such recent developments and controversies as new approaches to evaluative standards and cognitive aims, scientific realism, causal theories of explanation, Bayesian theories of confirmation and the search for a non-prescriptive philosophy of science. John Losee is the author of "Philosophy of Science and Historical Enquiry".
Table of Contents
- Aristotle's philosophy of science
- the Pythagorean orientation
- the ideal of deductive systematization
- atomism and the concept of underlying mechanism
- affirmation and development of Aristotle's method in the medieval period
- the debate over saving the appearances
- the 17th-century attack on Aristotelian philosophy - Galileo, Francis Bacon, Descartes
- Newton's axiomatic method
- analyses of the implications of the new science for a theory of scientific method - the cognitive status of scientific laws, theories of scientific procedure, structure of scientific theories
- inductivism versus positivism and conventionalism
- logical reconstructionist philosophy of science
- logical reconstructionist philosophy of science
- orthodoxy under attack
- theories of scientific procedure
- explanation, causation and unification
- confirmation and evidential support
- the justification of evaluative standards
- the debate over scientific realism
- descriptive philosphies of science.
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