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