(Ebook) The Philosophy of Science 7th Edition by Richard Boyd, Philip Gasper, Trout ISBN 978-0262521567 0262521563

(Ebook) The Philosophy of Science 7th Edition by Richard Boyd, Philip Gasper, Trout ISBN 978-0262521567 0262521563

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ISBN 10: 0262521563

ISBN 13: 978-0262521567

Author: Richard Boyd, Philip Gasper, J.D. Trout

Readings that chart the rise and decline of logical positivism and the emergence of a new consensus, emphasizing the relation between theoretical and applied questions.

The more than forty readings in this anthology cover the most important developments if the past six decades, charting the rise and decline of logical positivism and the gradual emergence of a new consensus concerning the major issues and theoretical options in the field. The editors have included articles on all the major special sciences and emphasize the relation between the more theoretical and applied questions.

Part One deals with basic theoretical issues: confirmation, semantics, and the interpretation of theories; causation and explanation; and reductionism and the unity of science. In Part Two, these relatively abstract themes are illustrated and examined further in light of issues in the various special sciences including physics, biology, psychology, and social science.

Table of contents: 

Introductory Essay – Richard Boyd

1. Positivism and Realism – Moritz Schlick

2. The Operational Character of Scientific Concepts – Percy Bridgman

3. Empiricist Criteria of Cognitive Significance: Problems and Changes – Carl Hempel

4. Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology – Rudolf Carnap

5. Selections from The Logic of Scientific Discovery – Karl Popper

   • A. Scientific Method

   • B. Falsificationism versus Conventionalism

   • C. The Empirical Basis

6. The 'Corroboration' of Theories – Hilary Putnam

7. Scientific Revolutions – Thomas Kuhn

   • A. The Essential Tension

   • B. The Nature and Necessity of Scientific Revolutions

8. Natural Kinds – W. V. O. Quine

9. Explanation and Reference – Hilary Putnam

10. To Save the Phenomena – Bas van Fraassen

11. On the Current Status of Scientific Realism – Richard Boyd

12. A Confutation of Convergent Realism – Larry Laudan

13. Experimentation and Scientific Realism – Ian Hacking

14. The Natural Ontological Attitude – Arthur Fine

15. Feminism and Science – Evelyn Fox Keller

Section II – Causation and Explanation
Introductory Essay – Philip Gasper

16. Laws and Their Role in Scientific Explanation – Carl Hempel

17. The Pragmatics of Explanation – Bas van Fraassen

18. Explanatory Unification – Philip Kitcher

19. Observations, Explanatory Power, and Simplicity: Toward a Non-Humean Account – Richard Boyd

20. The Reality of Causes in a World of Instrumental Laws – Nancy Cartwright

Section III – Reductionism and the Unity of Science
Introductory Essay – J.D. Trout

21. Logical Foundations of the Unity of Science – Rudolf Carnap

22. Unity of Science as a Working Hypothesis – Paul Oppenheim and Hilary Putnam

23. Special Sciences – Jerry Fodor

24. Reductionism – Alan Garfinkel

PART II

Section I – The Philosophy of Physics
Introductory Essay – J.D. Trout

25. Selections from The Philosophy of Space and Time – Hans Reichenbach

26. The Epistemology of Geometry – Clark Glymour

27. Is The Moon There When Nobody Looks? Reality and the Quantum Theory – N. David Mermin

28. Metaphysical Problems in the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics – Abner Shimony

29. Is Scientific Realism Compatible with Quantum Physics? – Arthur Fine

Section II – The Philosophy of Biology

Introductory Essay – Philip Gasper

30. 1953 and All That: A Tale of Two Sciences – Philip Kitcher

31. Artifact, Cause, and Genic Selection – Elliott Sober and Richard Lewontin

32. The Return of the Gene – Kim Sterelny and Philip Kitcher

Section III – The Philosophy of Psychology

Introductory Essay – J.D. Trout

33. Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes – Paul Churchland

34. Three Kinds of Intentional Psychology – Daniel Dennett

35. Methodological Solipsism Considered as a Research Strategy in Cognitive Psychology – Jerry Fodor

36. Narrow Taxonomy and Wide Functionalism – Patricia Kitcher

37. Individualism and Psychology – Tyler Burge

Section IV – The Philosophy of Social Science

Introductory Essay – Philip Gasper

38. Value-judgments in Social Science – Max Weber

Section IV – The Philosophy of Social Science (tiếp tục)

39. Methodological Individualism and Social Tendencies – John Watkins

40. Fact and Method in the Social Sciences – Richard W. Miller

41. Marx and the Objectivity of Science – Peter Railton

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