The Philosophy of Science

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The more than 40 readings in this anthology cover the most important developments of the past six decades, charting the rise and decline of logical positivism ...

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Concept attribution in nonhuman animals: Theoretical and methodological problems in ascribing complex mental processes.Colin Allen & Marc D. Hauser
Randomness and probability in dynamical theories: On the proposals of the Prigogine school.Robert W. Batterman
Confirmation, semantics, and the interpretation of scientific theories.Richard Boyd
Observations, explanatory power, and simplicity: Toward a non-Humean account.Richard Boyd
On the current status of scientific realism.Richard Boyd
The operational character of scientific concepts.Percy Bridgman
Empiricism, Semantics and Ontology.Rudolf Carnap
Logical Foundations of the Unity of Science.Rudolf Carnap
Quantum theory and explanatory discourse: Endgame for understanding?James T. Cushing
Einstein and EPR.Robert Deltete & Reed Guy
Realism, empiricism and scientific revolutions.Patrick Enfield
Species, higher taxa, and the units of evolution.Marc Ereshefsky
Scientific explanation-4 decades of scientific explanation-critical notice.Jh Fetzer
Special Sciences Jerry Fodor.Jerry Fodor
On saving the phenomena and the mice: A reply to Bourgeois concerning Van Fraassen's image of science.Jeff Foss
Reductionism.Alan Garfinkel
Causation and explanation.Philip Gasper
The neurobiology of observation.Daniel Gilman
On the notion of evolutionary progress.Kai Hahlweg
What is the logical form of probability assignment in quantum mechanics?John F. Halpin
On the testability of psychological generalizations (psychological testability).David K. Henderson
Philosophy of Science Association.David K. Henderson
On the nature and norms of theoretical commitment.Paul Horwich
Maher, mendeleev and bayesianism.Colin Howson & Allan Franklin
Realism about what?Roger Jones
Natural Kinds.W. V. O. Quine
Critical notice: Philip Kitcher and Wesley C. salmon,(eds.), Scientific explanation; and Wesley C. salmon, four decades of scientific explanation* James H. fetzert. [REVIEW]Philip Kitcher
Explanatory unification.Philip Kitcher
Narrow Taxonomy and Wide Functionalism.Patricia Kitcher
The pragmatics of explanation.Philip Kitcher
Criteria of rationality and the problem of logical sloth.Andre Kukla
Contrastive explanation and causal triangulation.Peter Lipton
Lüders's rule as a description of individual state transformations.Sergio Martinez
Novel evidence and severe tests.Deborah G. Mayo
Philosophy of Science Association.Deborah G. Mayo
A case for "qualitative confirmation" for the social and behavioral sciences.Steven I. Miller & Marcel Fredericks
Husserl's philosophy of science and the semantic approach.Thomas Mormann
Embedding and uniqueness in relationist theories.Brent Mundy
Functions as Selected Effects: The Conceptual Analyst’s Defense.Karen Neander
The method to "meaning": A reply to Leplin.Nancy J. Nersessian
The method to meaning-a reply to Leplin-discussion.Nancy J. Nersessian
Goldstick and O’Neill on" Truer than".Ilkka Niiniluoto
Richard Boyd.Some Basic Notions
Individualism and semantic development.Sarah Patterson
Selections from The Logic of Scientific Discovery Karl Popper.Karl Popper
The `corroboration' of theories.Hillary Putnam
Bell's inequalities, relativistic quantum field theory and the problem of hidden variables.Miklós Rédei
Did Kuhn kill logical empiricism?George A. Reisch
The politics of postmodern philosophy of science.Joseph Rouse
Philosophy of Science Association.Justin Schwartz
Reduction, elimination, and the mental.Schwartz Justin
Species, higher taxa, and the units of evolution.In T. Schopf
Leplin on essentialism.Dudley Shapere
Leplin on essentialism-discussion.Dudley Shapere
The new theory of reference entails absolute time and space.Quentin Smith
Temporally asymmetric inference in a Markov process.Elliott Sober
On relativity theory and openness of the future.Howard Stein
Section III: reductionism and the unity of science.J. D. Trout
Section 1 The Philosophy of Physics JD Trout.J. D. Trout
A reply to Mayo's criticisms of Urbach's "randomization and the design of experiments".Peter Urbach
To save the phenomena.Bas C. Van Fraassen
Some critical remarks concerning Prigogine's conception of temporal irreversibility.Guido Verstraeten
The units of selection and the bases of selection.David Walton
Tempered realism about the force of selection.C. Kenneth Waters

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