Kent W. Staley (Missouri St Louis University)

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Guiding readers through the central philosophical debates within the philosophy of science, this book focuses first on the key figures, movements, and concepts in the philosophy of science, and then moves on to contemporary debates. It is of essential interest to students of philosophy of science, philosophy, and science.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 530g
• ISBN-13: 9780521129992
• ISBN-10: 0521129990
• Artikelnr.: 41151706

Autorenporträt

Kent W. Staley is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University, Missouri. His publications include The Evidence for the Top Quark: Objectivity and Bias in Collaborative Experimentation (Cambridge, 2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: philosophy of science for philosophers, scientists, and everyone else
Part I. Background and Basic Concepts: 1. Some problems of induction
2. Falsificationism: science without induction?
3. Underdetermination
4. Logical empiricism and scientific theories
5. Kuhn: scientific revolutions as paradigm changes
6. Lakatos: scientific research programmes
7. Feyerabend: epistemological anarchism
Part II. Ongoing Investigations: 8. Reasoning with probability: Bayesianism
9. Reasoning with probability: frequentism
10. Realism and anti-realism
11. Explanation
12. Values in science
References
Index.