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Index
Preface
A Note for Those Teaching with the Book
1 Introduction
1.2 The Scope of the Theory
1.3 What Kind of Theory?
I.4 Three Answers, or Pieces of an Answer
r.5 Historical Interlude: A Sketch of the Scientific Revolution
Further Reading
2 Logic Plus Empiricism
z.z The Vienna Circle
z.3 Central Ideas of Logical Positivism
2.4 Problems and Changes
2.5 Logical Empiricism
z.6 On the Fall of Logical Empiricism
3 Induction and Confirmation
3.2 Induction, Deduction, Confirmation, and Explanatory Inference
3.3 The Ravens Problem
3.4 Goodman's "New Riddle of Induction"
4 Popper: Conjecture and Refutation •
4.3 Popper on Scientific Change
4.4 Objections to Popper on Falsification
4.5 Objections to Popper on Confirmation
4.6 Further Comments on the Demarcation Problem
5 Kuhn and Normal Science •
5.2 Paradigms: A Closer Look
5.3 Normal Science
5.4 Anomaly and Crisis
5.5 Wrap-up of Normal Science
6 Kuhn and Revolutions •
6.z Revolutions and Their Aftermath
6.3 Incommensurability, Relativism, and Progress
6.4 The X-Rated "Chapter X"
6.5 Final Thoughts on Kuhn
7 Lakatos, Laudan, Feyerabend, and Frameworks •
7.z Lakatos and Research Programs
7.3 Laudan and Research Traditions
7.4 Anything Goes
7.5 An Argument from History That Haunts Philosophy
7.6 Pluralism and the Ramblings of Madmen
7.7 Taking Stock: Frameworks and Two-Process Theories of Science
8 The Challenge from Sociology of Science •
8.3 The Rise of the Strong Program
8.4 Leviathan and Latour
9 Feminism and Science Studies •
9.z The Man of Reason
9.3 The Case of Primatology
9.4 Feminist Epistemology
9.5 Science Studies, the Science Wars, and the Sokal Hoax
10 Naturalistic Philosophy in Theory and Practice •
io.z Quine, Dewey, and Others
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