Philosophy of science: a contemporary introduction
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| Beschreibung: | "Any serious student attempting to better understand the nature, methods, and justification of science will value Alex Rosenberg's updated and substantially revised Third Edition of Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction. Weaving lucid explanations with clear analyses, the volume is as a much-used, thematically oriented introduction to the field. New features of the Third Edition include more coverage of the history of the philosophy of science, more fully developed material on the metaphysics of causal and physical necessity, more background on the contrast between empiricism and rationalism in science, and new material on the structure of theoretical science (with expanded coverage of Newtonian and Darwinian theories and models) and the realism/antirealism controversy. Rosenberg also divides the Third Edition into fourteen chapters, aligning each chapter with a week in a standard semester-long course. Updated Discussion Questions, Glossary, Bibliography and Suggested Readings lists at the end of each chapter will make the Third Edition indispensable, either as a comprehensive stand-alone text or alongside the many wide ranging collections of articles and book excerpts currently available. "-- Provided by publisher. |
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Contents
Preface xi
Philosophy and Science I
Overview I
What Is Philosophy? I
Philosophy and the Emergence of the Sciences 3
Science and the Divisions of Philosophy 5
What if There Are No Questions Left Over when Science
Is Finished? 6
A Short History of Philosophy as the Philosophy of Science 8
Summary 18
Study Questions 19
Suggested Readings 19
Why Is Philosophy of Science Important? 21
Overview 21
Scientific Questions and Questions about Science 21
Modern Science Has Implications for Philosophy 24
The Cultural Significance of Science 30
Why Is Science the Only Feature of Western Culture Universal!/
Adopted? 33
Summary 35
Study Questions 36
Suggested Readings 36
Scientific Explanation 39
Overview 39
Defining Scientific Explanation 40
The Role of Laws in Scientific Explanation 42
The Covering Law Model 45
Problems for the Covering Law Model 48
A Competing Conception of Scientific Explanation 53
Summary 56
Study Questions 57
Suggested Readings 58
viii Contents
4 Why Do Laws Explain? 61
Overview 61
What Is a Law of Nature? 62
Counterfactual Support as a Symptom of the Necessity of Laws 63
Counterfactuals and Causation 65
Coming to Grips with Nomic Necessity 67
Denying the Obvious? 74
Summary 77
Study Questions 78
Suggested Readings 78
5 Causation, Inexact Laws and Statistical
Probabilities 81
Overview 81
Causes as Explainers 82
Ceteris Paribus Laws 87
Statistical Laws and Probabilistic Causes 89
Explanation as Unification 93
Summary 95
Study Questions 96
Suggested Readings 96
6 Laws and Explanations in Biology and the
Special Sciences 97
Overview 97
Dissatisfaction with Causal Explanations 98
Proprietary Laws in the Special Sciences 100
Functional Laws and Biological Explanations 103
Explaining Purposes or Explaining Them Away? 106
From Intelligibiltty to Necessity 107
Summary 111
Study Questions 112
Suggested Readings 112
7 The Structure of Scientific Theories 115
Overview 115
How Do Theories Work? The Example of Newtonian Mechanics 116
Theories as Explainers: The Hypothetico-Deductive Model 121
The Philosophical Signrfkance of Newtonian Mechanics and
Theories 127
Summary 132
Study Questions 133
Suggested Readings 133
Contents ix
8 Epistemic and Metaphysical Issues About
Scientific Theories 135
Overview 135
Reduction, Replacement and the Progress of Science 136
The Problem of Theoretical Terms 142
Scientific Realism vs. Antirealism 150
Summary 157
Study Questions 158
Suggested Readings 159
9 Theory Construction vs. Model Building 161
Overview 161
Theories and Models 162
Semantic vs. Syntactic Approaches to Theories and Models 166
A Case Study: Darwin s Theory of Natural Selection 169
Models and Theories in Evolutionary Biology 173
Summary 177
Study Questions 178
Suggested Readings 178
10 Induction and Probability 179
Overview 179
The Problem of Induction 180
Statistics and Probability to the Rescue? 185
How Much Can Bayes Theorem Really Help? 192
Summary 198
Study Questions 199
Suggested Readings 199
11 Confirmation, Falsification,
Underdetermination 201
Overview 201
Epistemological Problems of Hypothesis Testing 201
Induction as a Pseudo-Problem: Popper s Gambit 206
Underdetermination 211
Summary 215
Study Questions 216
Suggested Readings 216
12 Challenges from the History of Science 219
Overview 219
A Role for History in the Philosophy of Science? 220
New Paradigms and Scientific Revoluoons 225
x Contents
Are Scientific Research Programs Rational? 230
Summary 234
Study Questions 235
Suggested Readings 236
13 Naturalism in the Philosophy of Science 237
Overview 237
Quine and the Surrender of First Philosophy 237
Naturalism, Multiple Realizability and Supervenience 242
Naturalism s Problem of Justification 248
Summary 250
Study Questions 250
Suggested Readings 251
14 The Contested Character of Science 253
Overview 253
Methodological Anarchism 254
The Strong Program in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge 256
Postmodernism and the Science Wars 261
Does the Sokal Hoax Prove Anything? 263
Scientism, Sexism and Significant Truths 265
Summary 271
Study Questions 271
Suggested Readings 272
15 Science, Relativism and Objectivity 273
Overview 273
Relativism and Conceptual Schemes 273
Dealing with Incommensurability 277
Conclusion: The Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme 281
Study Questions 282
Suggested Readings 282
Glossary 283
Bibliography 293
Index 299
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