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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Our Logical Empiricist Heritage. | |
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| Introduction to Part I | |
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| Empiricist Criteria of Cognitive Significance: Problems and Changes | |
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| The Logical Foundations of Belief Revision. | |
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| Introduction to Part II | |
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| Studies in the Logic of Confirmation | |
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| Confirmation and Relevance | |
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| The New Riddle of Induction | |
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| Explanations, Tests, Unity, and Necessity | |
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| Rationality and Objectivity in Science (or Tom Kuhn Meets Tom Bayes) | |
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| The Criteria of Theory Choice. | |
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| Introduction to Part III | |
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| Let's Razor Ockham's Razor | |
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| Foundational Physics and Empiricist Critique | |
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| Darwin's Achievement | |
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| Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice | |
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| Realism and the Character of Scientific Theories. | |
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| Introduction to Part IV | |
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| The Theoretician's Dilemma | |
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| (a) Phenomenalism. | |
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| (b)The Language of Theories | |
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| (a) Arguments Concerning Scientific Realism. | |
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| (b)To Save the Phenomen | |
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| Empirical Equivalence and Underdetermination (Larry Laudan and Jarrett Leplin) | |
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| Structural Realism: The Best of Both Worlds? (John Worrall) | |
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| Extragalactic Reality: The Case of Gravitational Lensing (Ian Hacking) | |
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| Scientific Explanations and Laws of Nature. | |
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| Introduction to Part V | |
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| Laws and their Role in Scientific Exploration | |
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| (a) The Laws of Nature.(b) Humean Supervenience | |
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| Laws of Nature | |
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| The Evolutionary Contingency Thesis | |
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| Who's Afraid of Ceteris-Paribus Laws? (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Them) | |
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| Natural Kinds and the Special Kinds of Special Sciences. | |
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| Introduction to Part VI | |
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| A Tradition of Natural Kinds | |
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| Evolution, Population Thinking, and Essentialism | |
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| Homeostasis, Species, and Higher Taxa | |
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| Some Puzzles About Species | |
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| Special Sciences (or: The Disunity of Science as a Working Hypothesis) | |
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| Singular Causation. | |
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| Introduction to Part VII | |
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| Causation and Recipes | |
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| Causation as Influence | |
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| Causation and the Flow of Energy | |
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| Probabilistic Causation, Causal Laws, and Chances. | |
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| Introduction to Part VIII | |
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| Probabilistic Causation | |
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| Causal Laws and Effective Strategies | |
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| The Propensity Interpretation of Fitness | |
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| A Subjectivist's Guide to Objective Chance | |
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| Metaphysical Implications of Modern Physics. | |
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| Introduction to Part IX | |
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| On Einstein-Minkowski Space-Time | |
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| What Price Spacetime Substantivalism? The Hole Story | |
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| The Genidentity of Quantum Particles | |
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| Is the Moon There When Nobody Looks? Reality and the Quantum Theory | |
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| Part and Whole in Quantum Mechanics | |
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| Index | |