Author:
Gillies, Donald.
Imprint:Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass., USA : Blackwell, c1993.
Descriptionxv, 251 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Part I. INDUCTIVISM AND ITS CRITICS: 1. Some historical background: inductivism, Russell and the Cambridge School, the Vienna Circle and Popper -- 2. Popper's Critique of Inductivism. His theory of conjectures and refutations (or falsificationism) -- 3. Duhem's critique of inductivism -- Part II. CONVENTIONALISM AND THE DUHEM-QUINE THESIS: Poincaré's conventionalism -- 5. The Duhem thesis and the Quine thesis -- Part III. THE NATURE OF OBSERVATION: 6. Protocol sentences -- 7. Is observation theory-laden? -- Part IV. THE DEMARCATION BETWEEN SCIENCE AND METAPHYSICS: 8. Is metaphysics meaningless? Wittgenstein, the Vienna Circle, and Popper's critique -- 9. Metaphysics in relation to science: the views of Popper, Duhem, and Quine -- 10. Falsificationism in the light of the Duhem-Quine thesis.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [238]-244) and index.
