The Continuum companion to the philosophy of science /
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
[2011]
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| Series: | Continuum companions.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Steven French and Juha Saatsi
- Part I: Philopshy of science in context
- Philosophy of science and epistemology / Alexander Bird
- Philosophy of science and metaphysics / Craig Callendar
- Philosophy of science and the history of science / Don Howard
- Part II: Current research and issues
- Scientific realism with a human face / Stathis Psillos
- Causation and the sciences / Ned Hall
- Scientific models and representation / Gabriele Contessa
- Reduction, multiple realizability and levels of reality / Sven Walter and Markus Eronen
- Explanation / Henk W. de Regt
- Scientific evidence / Malcolm R. Forster
- Bayesian confirmation theory / James Hawthorne
- Philosophy of physics / Nick Huggett
- Philosophy of biology / Ingo Brigandt
- Towards a mechanistic philosophy of neuroscience / Carl F. Craver and David M. Kaplan
- Philosophy of chemistry / Robin Findlay Hendry
- Philosophy of mathematics / Christopher Pincock
- Part III: Past and future
- Travelling in new directions / Steven French and Juha Saatsi
- A brief chronology of the philosophy of science / Peter Vickers.