Abstract

List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Foreward by David Lamb -- Introduction -- The trials and tribulations of induction -- The perils of disproving theories -- Science as a daring enterprise: Choosing by convention -- Dogmatism in science: Kuhn and scientific revolutions -- Feyerabend and scientific anarchy -- One last plea for "rationality": Rationality and the growth of science -- Evolution and science -- Evolutionary relativism -- Alternative ways of perceiving the universe -- Appendix: The fate of inductive logic -- Index.