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The Advancement of Science
SCIENCE WITHOUT LEGEND, OBJECTIVITY WITHOUT ILLUSIONS
Preface
Contents
The Advancement of Science
1
Legend's Legacy
2
Darwin's Achievement
1. A Triumph for Heresy
2. Before Darwin
3. Darwin's Innovations
4. Darwin's Patterns
5. Darwinian Practices
6. Darwin's Argument
7. The Synthesis
8. After the Synthesis: Consensus and Controversy
8.1. Multiplying the Phenomena
8.2. Deepening Neo-Darwinism
8.3. The Impact of Molecular Biology
8.4. Debates about Genetic Variation
8.5. Adaptationism and its Critics
8.6. Debates about Macroevolution
9. The Progress of Darwinism
3
The Microstructure of Scientific Change
1. Outline of a Naturalistic Philosophy of Science
2. Individual Cognition
3. Cognitive Constraints
4. Cognitive Variation
5. Goals
6. Individual Practices
7. Scientific Language
8. Significant Questions and Accepted Statements
9. Explanatory Schemata
COMMON DESCENT
10. Other Components
11. Consensus Practice
12. Changing Perspective
4
Varieties of Progress
1. A Problem Reposed
2. The Practical and the Cognitive
3. Cognitive Progress: An Overview
4. Conceptual Progress
5. Explanatory Progress
DALTON
MOLECULAR AFFINITIES
SHELLFILLING
6. Derivative Notions
7. Verisimilitude
8. Two Refinements
5
Realism and Scientific Progress
1. Facing the Music
2. Rehabilitating Truth
3. Pitfalls of Pessimism
4. History Revisited
5. Settling for Less
6. Goals in Flux?
7. Social Interference
8. Metaphysical Options
9. Possible Losses
NATURAL MOTION
MINIMAL ARISTOTELIANISM (I)
GRAVITATION
MINIMAL ARISTOTELIANISM (II)
6
Dissolving Rationality
1. Good Design
2. Illustration
3. Preliminary Clarifications
4. The External Standard
5. The Limits of Tolerance
6. Closing Debate
7. Scientists at War
8. Darwin's "Long Argument" Revisited
9. From Copernicus to Galileo
10. Rocks and Reasoning
7
The Experimental Philosophy
1. Models of Empirical Knowledge
2. Observation
3. Inductive Generalization
Eliminative Induction
5. Positive Instances
6. Underdetermination
7. Adjusting Constraints
8. Darwin's Appeal to Biogeography
9. Lavoisier against the Phlogistonians
Chemical Composition
10. Worries
8
The Organization of Cognitive Labor
1. Introduction
2. Authority
3. Cooperation
Technical Discussion 1
4. Attributing Authority
5. Direct Calibration
6. Prestige Effects
7. Indirect Calibration
8. Backscratching
Technical Discussion 2
9. The Entrepreneurial Predicament Revisited
Technical Discussion 3
10. Entrepreneurs, Authority, and Credit
Technical Discussion 4
11. The Community Response to Innovation
Technical Discussion 5
12. Individual Responses to Innovation
Technical Discussion 6
13. Division of Cognitive Labor
14. Alternative Methods: Community Decision
16. Approaches to the Problem of Theory Choice
Technical Discussion 7
17. Theory Choice: Community Optimum
Technical Discussion 8
18. Theory Choice: Individual Responses
Technical Discussion 9
19. The Influence of Tradition
Technical Discussion 10
20. The Pure, the Sullied, and the Mixed-Up
Technical Discussion 11
21. Cognitive Variation
Technical Discussion 12
22. Nonexhaustive Alternatives
Technical Discussion 13
23. Consensus Formation
Technical Discussion 14
24. Conclusions
Envoi
Bibliography
Index
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