What is this Thing Called Science?Univ. of Queensland Press, 1999 - 266 pages An introductory textbook designed to explore the philosophy of science with minimal use of technical terms. |
Table des matières
Seeing is believing | 4 |
Observable facts expressed as statements | 10 |
Further reading | 18 |
Observable facts objective but fallible | 24 |
historical | 31 |
Experiment as an adequate basis for science | 38 |
What constitutes a good inductive argument? | 45 |
The appeal of inductivism | 53 |
Introducing Thomas Kuhn | 107 |
The function of normal science and revolutions | 117 |
Research programs | 130 |
Problems with Lakatoss methodology | 144 |
Critique of Feyerabends individualism | 157 |
A lighthearted interlude | 171 |
Critique of subjective Bayesianism | 187 |
The new experimentalism | 193 |
Introducing falsificationism | 59 |
Degree of falsifiability clarity and precision | 65 |
Further reading | 73 |
Boldness novelty and background knowledge | 81 |
The limitations of falsificationism | 87 |
Inadequacies of the falsificationist demarcation criterion | 101 |
Happy meetings of theory and experiment | 210 |
Further reading | 225 |
Scientific realism and conjectural realism | 238 |
Further reading | 253 |
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