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Index
Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication page
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
1 What is science?
The origins of modern science
What is philosophy of science?
Science and pseudo-science
2 Scientific inference
Deduction and induction
Hume’s problem
Inference to the best explanation
Causal inference
Probability and scientific inference
Rule of conditionalization
3 Explanation in science
Hempel’s covering law model of explanation
Case (i): the problem of symmetry
Case (ii): the problem of irrelevance
Explanation and causality
Can science explain everything?
Explanation and reduction
4 Realism and anti-realism
Scientific realism and anti-realism
The ‘no miracles’ argument
The observable/unobservable distinction
The underdetermination argument
5 Scientific change and scientific revolutions
Logical empiricist philosophy of science
Kuhn’s theory of scientific revolutions
Incommensurability and the theory-ladenness of data
Kuhn and the rationality of science
Kuhn’s legacy
6 Philosophical problems in physics, biology, and psychology
Leibniz versus Newton on absolute space
What are biological species?
Is the mind modular?
7 Science and its critics
Scientism
Science and religion
Is science value-free?
Further reading
Index
Social media
Online Catalogue
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