Preface |
Acknowledgements |
Introduction |
Philosophy of science as epistemology and metaphysics |
The Scientific Method / Part I: |
Induction and Inductivism / 1: |
The sceptic's challenge / 1.1: |
The scientific revolution / 1.2: |
The 'new tool' of induction / 1.3: |
(Naive) inductivism / 1.4: |
Further reading |
The Problem of Induction and Other Problems with Inductivism / 2: |
The problem of induction / 2.1: |
Solutions and dissolutions of the problem of induction / 2.2: |
Inductivism and the history of science / 2.3: |
Theory and observation / 2.4: |
Conclusions / 2.5: |
Falsificationism / 3: |
Popper and the critique of Marxism and psychoanalysis / 3.1: |
Popper's solution to the problem of induction / 3.2: |
The context of discovery and the context of justification / 3.3: |
The Duhem problem / 3.4: |
Problems with falsificationism / 3.5: |
Revolutions and Rationality / 3.6: |
The received view of science / 4.1: |
Kuhn's revolutionary history of science / 4.2: |
Paradigms and normal science / 4.3: |
The Copernican revolution / 4.4: |
Incommensurability / 4.5: |
Relativism and the role of reason in science / 4.7: |
Realism and Antirealism About Science / Part II: |
Scientific Realism / 5: |
Appearance and reality / 5.1: |
The metaphysics of the external world / 5.2: |
Semantics / 5.3: |
Standard scientific realism / 5.4: |
Antirealism / 5.5: |
Underdetermination / 6: |
Constructive empiricism / 6.1: |
Explanation and Inference / 7: |
Explanation / 7.1: |
Inference to the best explanation / 7.2: |
Common sense, realism and constructive empiricism / 7.3: |
Realism About What? / 8: |
Theory change / 8.1: |
Multiple models / 8.2: |
Idealisation / 8.3: |
Structural realism / 8.4: |
Glossary |
Bibliography |
Index |
Preface |
Acknowledgements |
Introduction |
Philosophy of science as epistemology and metaphysics |
The Scientific Method / Part I: |
Induction and Inductivism / 1: |