Philosophy of Science: The Key Thinkers

ISBN-13: 9781441128812 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 288 str.

James Robert Brown

Opis

All the great philosophers from Plato and Aristotleto the present day have been philosophers of science. However, this bookconcentrates on modern philosophy of science, starting in the nineteenthcentury and offering coverage of all the leading thinkers in the fieldincluding Whewell, Mill, Reichenbach, Carnap, Popper, Feyerabend, Putnam, van Fraassen, Bloor, Latour, Hacking, Cartwright and many more. Crucially the book demonstrates howthe ideas and arguments of these key thinkers have contributed to ourunderstanding of such central issues as experience and necessity, conventionalism, logical empiricism, induction and falsification, the sociologyof science, and realism. Ideal for undergraduate students, the book lays thenecessary foundations for a complete and thorough understanding of thisfascinating subject.

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Acknowledgements \ Notes on Contributors \Preface \ 1. Introduction James Robert Brown \ 2. Experience and Necessity:The Whewell and Mill Debate Laura Snyder \ 3. Conventionalism: Poincaré, Duhem, Reichenbach Torsten Wilholt \ 4. The Vienna Circle: Moritz Schlick, Rudolf Carnap, Otto Neurath Friedrich Stadler \ 5. Carl G. Hempel: Logical Empiricist Martin Curd \ 6. Anti-Inductivism as Worldview: The Philosophy of Karl Popper Steve Fuller \ 7. Historical Approaches: Kuhn, Lakatos and Feyerabend Martin Carrier \ 8. The Contingency of the Causal Nexus: Ghazali and Modern Science Arun Bala \ 9.Sociology of Science: Bloor, Collins, Latour Martin Kusch \ 10. One Cannot Be Just a Little Bit Realist: Putnam and van Fraassen Stathis Psillos \ 11. Beyond Theories: Hacking and Cartwright William Seager \ 12. Feminist Critiques: Harding and Longino Janet Kourany \ Afterword \ Index.