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| Preface | |
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| A Word to Instructors | |
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| A Word to Students | |
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| Introduction: What Is The Philosophy Of Science? | |
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| A Tale of Two Theories: The Story of Light | |
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| Truth, Explanation And Reality: The Classical Tradition And Its Problems | |
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| Basic Types of Reasoning in Science | |
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| Hypotheses | |
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| Deductive Reasoning | |
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| Inductive Reasoning | |
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| Statistical and Probalistic Reasoning | |
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| The Search for Truth | |
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| Empirical Discovery of Plausible Hypotheses | |
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| Empirical Evaluation I: Indirect Tests and Auxiliary Hypotheses | |
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| Empirical Evaluation II: Crucial Tests and AD HOC Revisions | |
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| Theoretical Justification: Theories and Their Uses | |
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| Conventionalism and the Duhem-Quine Thesis | |
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| The Quest for Explanation | |
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| Covering-Law Thesis of Explanation | |
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| Universal Laws of Nature | |
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| Probalistic Explanation and Probalistic Causality | |
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| Teleological Explanation, Mind, and Reductionism | |
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| Other Theories of Explanation: the Contextual, the Casual, and the Unificatory | |
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| The Pursuit of Reality | |
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| The Classical View of Scientific Theories | |
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| Realism Versus Instrumentalism | |
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| Critiques of the Classical View | |
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| Antirealism I: The Empiricist Challenge | |
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| Intermezzo: So, How Does Science Work? | |
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| Rationalism, Empiricism, Positivism And Constructivism: Evolving Views And Perspectives | |
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| Rationalism and Empiricism | |
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| Rationalism and Then Empiricism | |
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| Problems of Empiricism IA: Hume''s Problem | |
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| Problems of Empiricism IB: Goodman''s Paradox and Hempel''s Paradox | |
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| Problems of Empiricism II: Problem of Observation | |
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| The Classical Dynasty | |
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| Logical Positivism | |
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| Popper''s Falsificationism | |
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| The Weltanschauung Revolution | |
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| Introduction: Two Paradigm Theories | |
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| Kuhn I: Normal Science and Revolutionary Science | |
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| Kuhn II: Incommensurability and Relativism | |
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| Towards History, Sociology and Artificial Intelligence | |
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| Lakatos: The Revisionist Popperian | |
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| Laudan: The Eclectic Historicist | |
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| History, Sociology, and Philosophy of Science | |
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| Antirealism Ii: The Constructivist Rebellion | |
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| Artificial Intelligience and the Philosophy of Science | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |