An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science  3139

  1. Science as an Intellectual Activity
    • Growth of Knowledge
    • Objectivity and the External World
    • Prediction and Explanation
  2. Induction
    • Baconian Induction
    • Presuppositionless Observation
    • The Role of Imagination in Scientific Theorizing
    • Inductive Proof
  3. Falsification
    • Popperian Philosophy of Science
    • A Bayesian Approach
  4. Science and Non-Science
    • The Demarcation Criterion
    • Are Theories ever Falsified?
    • Kuhnian Relativism
    • The Relationship between the History and Philsophy of Science
  5. Observation and Theory
    • Observational Common Ground between Theories
    • Observation and Theory
    • Empiricism
    • Unobservability and Underdetermination of Theory by Data
  6. Scientific Realism
    • Positivism
    • The Inference to the Best Explanation
    • Scientific Laws and the Representation of Reality
    • The Absolute View of the World
    • Partial Pictures: Schrödinger’s Cat
  7. Probability
    • Probabilistic Explanations
    • Interpretations of Probability
  8. Scientific Reductions
    • Reductions in the Physical Sciences
    • Criteria for Reduction
  9. Science and Culture
    • Science as Mythology
    • Myths and Science
    • Science and Technology
    • Science and Value
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