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| Editors' introduction | |
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| Introduction: Science and pseudoscience | |
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| Falsification and the methodology of scientific research programmes | |
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| Science: reason or religion? | |
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| Fallibilism versus falsificationism | |
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| Dogmatic (or naturalistic) falsificationism. The empirical basis | |
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| Methodological falsificationism. The 'empirical basis' | |
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| Sophisticated versus naive methodological falsificationism. Progressive and degenerating problemshifts | |
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| A methodology of scientific research programmes | |
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| Negative heuristic: the 'hard core' of the programme | |
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| Positive heuristic: the construction of the 'protective belt' and the relative autonomy of theoretical science | |
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| Two illustrations: Prout and Bohr | |
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| Prout: a research programme progressing in an ocean of anomalies | |
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| Bohr: a research programme progressing on inconsistent foundations | |
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| A new look at crucial experiments: the end of instant rationality | |
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| The Michelson-Morley experiment | |
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| The Lummer-Pringsheim experiments | |
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| Beta-decay versus conservation laws | |
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| Conclusion. The requirement of continuous growth | |
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| The Popperian versus the Kuhnian research programme | |
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| Popper, falsificationism and the 'Duhem-Quine thesis' | |
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| History of science and its rational reconstructions | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Rival methodologies of science; rational reconstructions as guides to history | |
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| Inductivism | |
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| Conventionalism | |
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| Methodological falsificationism | |
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| Methodology of scientific research programmes | |
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| Internal and external history | |
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| Critical comparison of methodologies: history as a test of its rational reconstructions | |
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| Falsificationism as a meta-criterion: history 'falsifies' falsificationism (and any other methodology) | |
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| The methodology of historiographical research programmes. History --to varying degrees--corroborates its rational reconstructions | |
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| Against aprioristic and anti-theoretical approaches to methodology | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Popper on demarcation and induction | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Popper on demarcation | |
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| Popper's game of science | |
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| How can one criticize the rules of the scientific game? | |
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| A quasi-Polanyiite 'falsification' of Popper's demarcation criterion | |
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| An amended demarcation criterion | |
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| An amended meta-criterion | |
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| Negative and positive solutions to the problem of induction: scepticism and fallibilism | |
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| The game of science and the search for truth | |
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| A plea to Popper for a whiff of 'inductivism' | |
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| (with Elie Zahar) Why did Copernicus's research programme supersede Ptolemy's? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Empiricist accounts of the 'Copernican Revolution' | |
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| Simplicism | |
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| Polyanyiite and Feyerabendian accounts of the Copernican revolution | |
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| The Copernican revolution in the light of the methodology of scientific research programmes | |
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| The Copernican revolution in the light of Zahar's new version of the methodology of scientific research programmes | |
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| A postscript on history of science and its rational reconstructions | |
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| Newton's effect on scientific standards | |
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| The justificationist high road to psychologism and mysticism | |
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| Justificationism and its two poles: dogmatism and scepticism | |
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| Psychologistic justificationism | |
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| Justificationist fallibilism | |
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| Newtonian methodology versus Newtonian method | |
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| Newton's problem: the clash between standards and acheivements | |
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| Newtonians against metaphysical criticism | |
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| Newton's idea of experimental proof and its credo quid absurdum | |
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| Newtonians and factual criticism | |
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| Newton's double legacy | |
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| References | |
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| Lakatos bibliography | |
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| Indexes | |