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Control # 1 97039387
Control # Id 3 DLC
Date 5 20190911110627.0
Fixed Data 8 971103s1998 nyua b 001 0 eng
LC Card 10    $a 97039387
ISBN 20    $a0393971759 (pbk.)
Obsolete 39    $a230950$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
LC Call 50 00 $aQ175$b.P5129 1998
Dewey Class 82 00 $a501$221
Title 245 00 $aPhilosophy of science :$bthe central issues /$cMartin Curd, J.A. Cover, [editors].
Edition 250    $a1st ed.
Imprint 260    $aNew York :$bW.W. Norton,$cc1998.
Phys Descrpt 300    $axx, 1379 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 1311-1329) and indexes.
Note:Content 505 00 $g1. SCIENCE AND PSEUDOSCIENCE: Introduction -- $tScience: conjectures and refutations /$rKarl Popper -- $tLogic of discovery or psychology of research? /$rThomas S. Kuhn -- $tScience and pseudoscience /$rImre Lakatos -- $tWhy astrology is a pseudoscience /$rPaul R. Thagard -- $tCreation-science is not science /$rMichael Ruse -- $gCommentary: $tScience at the bar: causes for concern /$rLarry Laudan -- $gResponse to the commentary: Pro judice / Michael Ruse -- 2. RATIONALITY, OBJECTIVITY, AND VALUES IN SCIENCE: Introduction -- The$tnature and necessity of scientific revolutions /$rThomas S. Kuhn -- $tObjectivity, value judgment, and theory choice /$rThomas S. Kuhn -- $tRationality and paradigm change in science /$rErnan McMullin -- $tDissecting the holistic picture of scientific change /$rLarry Laudan -- $tValues and objectivity /$rHelen E.Longino -- $tGender and the biological sciences /$rKathleen Okruhlik -- $g3. THE DUHEM-QUINE THESIS AND UNDERDETERMINATION: Introduction -- $tPhysical theory and experiment /$rPierre Duhem -- $tTwo dogmas of empiricism /$rW.V. Quine -- $gThe$tDuhem thesis and the Quine thesis /$rDonald Gillies -- $tDemystifying underdetermination /$rLarry Laudan -- $g4. INDUCTION, PREDICTION, AND EVIDENCE: Introduction -- $tInduction /$rPeter Lipton -- $gThe $tproblem of induction /$rKarl Popper -- $tRational prediction /$rWesley C. Salmon -- $tCriteria of confirmation and acceptability /$rCarl G. Hempel -- $tIs evidence historical? /$rLaura J. Snyder -- $tExplanation v. prediction: which carries more weight? /$rPeter Achinstein -- $g5. CONFIRMATION AND RELEVANCE: BAYESIAN APPROACHES: Introduction -- $tRationality and objectivity in science or Tom Kuhn meets Tom Bayes /$rWesley C. Salmon -- $tWhy I am not a Bayesian /$rClark Glymour -- $tWittgensteinian Bayesianism /$rPaul Horwich -- $g6. MODELS OF EXPLANATION: Introduction -- The$tvalue of laws: explanation and prediction /$rRudolf Carnap -- $tTwo basic types of scientific explanation /$rCarl G.Hempel -- $gThe$tthesis of structural identity /$rCarl G. Hempel -- $tInductive- statistical explanation /$rCarl G. Hempel -- $tArguments, laws, and explanation /$rDavid-Hillel Ruben -- $gA$tdeductive-nomological model of probabilistic explanation /$rPeter Railton -- $g7. LAWS OF NATURE: Introduction -- $tWhat is a law of nature? /$rA.J. Ayer -- $tLaws of nature /$rFred I. Dretske -- $tNecessities and universals in natural laws /$rD.H. Mellor -- $tDo the laws of physics state the facts? /$rNancy Cartwright -- $g8. INTERTHEORETIC REDUCTION: Introduction -- $tIssues in the logic of reductive explanations /$rErnest Nagel -- $tHow to be a good empiricist, a plea for tolerance in matters epistemological /$rPaul K. Feyerabend -- $tTwo concepts of intertheoretic reduction /$rThomas Nickles -- $t1953 and all that: a tale of two sciences /$rPhilip Kitcher -- $g9. EMPIRICISM AND SCIENTIFIC REALISM: Introduction -- The$tontological status of theoretical entities /$rGrover Maxwell -- $tArguments concerning scientific realism /$rBas C. van Fraassen -- $tRealism versus constructive empiricism /$rAlan Musgrave -- $gA$tconfutation of convergent realism /$rLarry Laudan -- $tExplaining the success of science /$rJames Robert Brown -- $tExperimentation and scientific realism /$rIan Hacking -- $tHacking's experimental realism /$rDavid B. Resnik -- $gThe$tnatural ontological attitude /$rArthur Fine -- $tNOA's ark: fine for realism /$rAlan Musgrave.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aScience$xPhilosophy.
AE:Pers Name 700 $aCurd, Martin.
AE:Pers Name 700 $aCover, J. A.$q(Jan A.),$d1958-