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    Philosophy of Science: The Key Thinkers by Brown, James Robert;

    Series: Key Thinkers;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Continuum
    • Date of Publication 16 February 2012
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9781441142009
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages288 pages
    • Size 216x138 mm
    • Weight 336 g
    • Language English
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    All the great philosophers from Plato and Aristotle to the present day have been philosophers of science. However, this book concentrates on modern philosophy of science, starting in the nineteenth century and offering coverage of all the leading thinkers in the field including Whewell, Mill, Reichenbach, Carnap, Popper, Feyerabend, Putnam, van Fraassen, Bloor, Latour, Hacking, Cartwright and many more. Crucially the book demonstrates how the ideas and arguments of these key thinkers have contributed to our understanding of such central issues as experience and necessity, conventionalism, logical empiricism, induction and falsification, the sociology of science, and realism. Ideal for undergraduate students, the book lays the necessary foundations for a complete and thorough understanding of this fascinating subject.

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    Table of Contents:

    Acknowledgements \ Notes on Contributors \Preface \ 1. Introduction James Robert Brown \ 2. Experience and Necessity:The Whewell and Mill Debate Laura Snyder \ 3. Conventionalism: Poincaré, Duhem,
    Reichenbach Torsten Wilholt \ 4. The Vienna Circle: Moritz Schlick, Rudolf Carnap, Otto Neurath Friedrich Stadler \ 5. Carl G. Hempel: Logical Empiricist Martin Curd \ 6. Anti-Inductivism as Worldview: The Philosophy of Karl Popper Steve Fuller \ 7. Historical Approaches: Kuhn, Lakatos and Feyerabend Martin
    Carrier
    \ 8. The Contingency of the Causal Nexus: Ghazali and Modern Science Arun Bala \ 9.Sociology of
    Science: Bloor, Collins, Latour Martin Kusch \ 10. One Cannot Be Just a Little Bit Realist: Putnam and
    van Fraassen Stathis Psillos \ 11. Beyond Theories: Hacking and Cartwright William Seager \ 12. Feminist Critiques: Harding and Longino Janet Kourany \ Afterword \ Index.

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