What is this thing called science?
Contains chapters on topics including the Bayesian approach to science, and nature of scientific laws. This book features developments in the realism/anti-realism debate. It is intended to be a university text in the philosophy of science, not just on science and philosophy courses but also in the social sciences such as sociology and psychology.
Print Book, English, 2005
3. ed., reprinted View all formats and editions
Open Univ. Press, Maidenhead, Berkshire, 2005
XXII, 266 Seiten : Diagramme
9780335201099, 0335201091
255881948
PrefaceIntroductionScience as knowledge derived from the facts of experienceObservation as practical interventionExperimentDeriving theories from the factsinductionIntroducing falsificationismSophisticated falsificationismnovel predictions and the growth of scienceThe limitations of falsificationismTheories as structures IKuhn's paradigmsTheories as structures IIresearch programmesFeyerabend's anarchistic theory of scienceMethodical changes in methodThe Bayesian approachThe new experimentalismWhy should the world obey laws?Realism and anti-realismBibliographyIndex.