| Description |
vii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The Positivist Model of Scientific Theories and Its Problems -- Section 1. Logic, Language, and the Observational/Theoretical Distinction -- 1. Alexander Rosenberg, The Rise of Logical Positivism -- 2. Frederick Suppe, The Positivist Model of Scientific Theories -- 3. Hilary Putnam, Problems with the Observational/Theoretical Distinction -- 4. Grover Maxwell, Theoretical Entities -- 5. Bas Van Fraassen, A Defense of the Observational/Theoretical Distinction -- 6. Technical Interlude: Carl Hempel, A Critique of Operationalism -- Section 2. The Underdetermination of Theory and Holism -- 7. Pierre Dunhem, Physical Theory and Experiment -- 8. Sir Karl Popper, Falsification -- 9. W.V. Quine, Holism, Part 1: Two Dogmas of Empiricism -- 10. W.V. Quine, Holism, Part 2: Posits and Reality -- 11. Technical Interlude: Larry Laudan, A Critique of Underdetermination -- Section 3. Reductionism, Antireductionism, and Scientific Explanation -- 12. Ernest Nagel, A Model of Intertheoretic Reduction -- 13. Paul Oppenheim and Hilary Putnam, Unity of Science -- 14. Jerry Fodor, A Critique of Physiological Reductionism -- 15. Technical Interlude: Jaegwon Kim, The Nature of Supervenience -- 16. Carl G. Hempel and Paul Oppenheim, The Deductive-Nomological Model of Scientific Explanation -- 17. Philip Kitcher, The Unification Model of Scientific Explanation -- 18. Technical Interlude: Paul Humphreys, The Aleatory Model of Scientific Explanation -- Part II: Historicism and Its Aftermath -- Section 4. The Kuhnian Model of Science -- 19. Thomas Kuhn, The Nature of Normal Science -- 20. Thomas Kuhn, The Nature of Revolutionary Science -- 21. Ian Hacking, The Rationality of Science After Kuhn -- 22. Polemical Interlude: Paul Feyerabend, An Argument Against Method -- Section 5. Social Constructivism and Feminism -- 23. David Bloor, The Strong Programme in the Sociology of Science -- 24. Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar, A Social Constructivist Field Study -- 25. James Robert Brown, A Critique of Social Constructivism -- 26. Polemical Interlude: Paul Boghossian, The Sokal Hoax -- 27. Sandra Harding, Feminist Science Criticism -- 28. Cassandra Pinnick, Problems with Feminist Epistemology -- 29. Polemical Interlude: Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt, A Critique of Feminist Science Criticism -- Section 6. Realism and Antirealism -- 30. Hilary Putnam, Realism in Mathematics and Elsewhere -- 31. Bas van Fraassen, Alternatives to Realism -- 32. Philip Kitcher, Realism and Scientific Progress -- 33. James Robert Brown, Realism, Antirealism, and NOA -- 34. Polemical Interlude: Alan Musgrave, Idealism and Antirealism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Historicism.
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Positivism.
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Science -- Philosophy.
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| Author |
Klee, Robert, 1952-
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| LC no. |
97048268 |
| ISBN |
0195119762 |
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