Contributor
Curd, Martin.
Edition Statement:1st ed.
Imprint:New York : W.W. Norton, c1998.
Descriptionxx, 1379 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:1. SCIENCE AND PSEUDOSCIENCE: Introduction -- Science: conjectures and refutations / Karl Popper -- Logic of discovery or psychology of research? / Thomas S. Kuhn -- Science and pseudoscience / Imre Lakatos -- Why astrology is a pseudoscience / Paul R. Thagard -- Creation-science is not science / Michael Ruse -- Commentary: Science at the bar: causes for concern / Larry Laudan -- Response to the commentary: Pro judice / Michael Ruse -- 2. RATIONALITY, OBJECTIVITY, AND VALUES IN SCIENCE: Introduction -- The nature and necessity of scientific revolutions / Thomas S. Kuhn -- Objectivity, value judgment, and theory choice / Thomas S. Kuhn -- Rationality and paradigm change in science / Ernan McMullin -- Dissecting the holistic picture of scientific change / Larry Laudan -- Values and objectivity / Helen E.Longino -- Gender and the biological sciences / Kathleen Okruhlik -- 3. THE DUHEM-QUINE THESIS AND UNDERDETERMINATION: Introduction -- Physical theory and experiment / Pierre Duhem -- Two dogmas of empiricism / W.V. Quine -- The Duhem thesis and the Quine thesis / Donald Gillies -- Demystifying underdetermination / Larry Laudan -- 4. INDUCTION, PREDICTION, AND EVIDENCE: Introduction -- Induction / Peter Lipton -- The problem of induction / Karl Popper -- Rational prediction / Wesley C. Salmon -- Criteria of confirmation and acceptability / Carl G. Hempel -- Is evidence historical? / Laura J. Snyder -- Explanation v. prediction: which carries more weight? / Peter Achinstein -- 5. CONFIRMATION AND RELEVANCE: BAYESIAN APPROACHES: Introduction -- Rationality and objectivity in science or Tom Kuhn meets Tom Bayes / Wesley C. Salmon -- Why I am not a Bayesian / Clark Glymour -- Wittgensteinian Bayesianism / Paul Horwich -- 6. MODELS OF EXPLANATION: Introduction -- The value of laws: explanation and prediction / Rudolf Carnap -- Two basic types of scientific explanation / Carl G.Hempel -- The thesis of structural identity / Carl G. Hempel -- Inductive- statistical explanation / Carl G. Hempel -- Arguments, laws, and explanation / David-Hillel Ruben -- A deductive-nomological model of probabilistic explanation / Peter Railton -- 7. LAWS OF NATURE: Introduction -- What is a law of nature? / A.J. Ayer -- Laws of nature / Fred I. Dretske -- Necessities and universals in natural laws / D.H. Mellor -- Do the laws of physics state the facts? / Nancy Cartwright -- 8. INTERTHEORETIC REDUCTION: Introduction -- Issues in the logic of reductive explanations / Ernest Nagel -- How to be a good empiricist, a plea for tolerance in matters epistemological / Paul K. Feyerabend -- Two concepts of intertheoretic reduction / Thomas Nickles -- 1953 and all that: a tale of two sciences / Philip Kitcher -- 9. EMPIRICISM AND SCIENTIFIC REALISM: Introduction -- The ontological status of theoretical entities / Grover Maxwell -- Arguments concerning scientific realism / Bas C. van Fraassen -- Realism versus constructive empiricism / Alan Musgrave -- A confutation of convergent realism / Larry Laudan -- Explaining the success of science / James Robert Brown -- Experimentation and scientific realism / Ian Hacking -- Hacking's experimental realism / David B. Resnik -- The natural ontological attitude / Arthur Fine -- NOA's ark: fine for realism / Alan Musgrave.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 1311-1329) and indexes.
