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| Preface | |
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| General Introduction | |
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| Science: Conjectures and Refutations | |
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| Logic of Discovery or Psychology of Research? | |
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| Science and Pseudoscience | |
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| Why Astrology Is a Pseudoscience | |
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| Creation-Science Is Not Science | |
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| Commentary: Science at the Bar - Causes for Concern | |
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| Response to the Commentary: Pro Judice | |
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| The Nature and Necessity of Scientific Revolutions | |
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| Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice | |
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| Rationality and Paradigm Change in Science | |
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| Dissecting the Holist Picture of Scientific Change | |
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| Values and Objectivity | |
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| Gender and the Biological Sciences | |
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| Physical Theory and Experiment | |
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| Two Dogmas of Empiricism | |
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| The Duhem Thesis and the Quine Thesis | |
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| Demystifying Underdetermination | |
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| Induction | |
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| The Problem of Induction | |
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| Rational Prediction | |
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| Criteria of Confirmation and Acceptability | |
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| Is Evidence Historical? | |
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| Explanation v. Prediction: Which Carries More Weight? | |
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| Rationality and Objectivity in Science or Tom Kuhn Meets Tom Bayes | |
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| Why I Am Not a Bayesian | |
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| Wittgensteinian Bayesianism | |
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| The Value of Laws: Explanation and Prediction | |
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| Two Basic Types of Scientific Explanation | |
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| The Thesis of Structural Identity | |
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| Inductive-Statistical Explanation | |
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| Arguments, Laws, and Explanation | |
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| A Deductive-Nomological Model of Probabilistic Explanation | |
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| What Is a Law of Nature? | |
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| Laws of Nature | |
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| Necessities and Universals in Natural Laws | |
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| Do the Laws of Physics State the Facts? | |
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| Issues in the Logic of Reductive Explanations | |
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| How to Be a Good Empiricist - A Plea for Tolerance in Matters Epistemological | |
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| Two Concepts of Intertheoretic Reduction | |
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| 1953 and All That: A Tale of Two Sciences | |
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| The Ontological Status of Theoretical Entities | |
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| Arguments Concerning Scientific Realism | |
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| Realism versus Constructive Empiricism | |
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| A Confutation of Convergent Realism | |
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| Explaining the Success of Science | |
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| Experimentation and Scientific Realism | |
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| Hacking's Experimental Realism | |
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| The Natural Ontological Attitude | |
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| NOA's Ark - Fine for Realism | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Permissions Acknowledgments | |
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| Name Index | |
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| Subject Index | |