Philosophy of science: a new introduction

Abstract

EACH CHAPTER ENDS WITH SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING. CHAPTER 1: SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY 1.0 Scientific disputes and philosophical questions 1.1 Modern science: A brief history 1.2 Images of Science CHAPTER 2: THE ANALYTIC PROJECT 2.0 Demarcating Science 2.1 Confirmation 2.2 Theories 2.3 Explanation 2.4 Failures-and Successes CHAPTER 3: THE VIEW FROM THE SCIENCES 3.0 The sciences on their own terms 3.1 The ideal of unified science 3.2 The ineradicability of causation 3.3 Against the supernatural 3.4 Making sense of ourselves 3.5 Naturalizing knowledge CHAPTER 4: SCIENCE, HISTORY, AND SOCIETY 4.0 More than anecdote 4.1 Frameworks and revolutions 4.2 The bogey of relativism 4.3 Success, truth, and progress 4.4 Progress without truth? CHAPTER 5: CRITICAL VOICES 5.0 A mixture of challenges 5.1 Diversity and the feminist critique 5.2 The cultural critique 5.3 The ecological critique 5.4 Anti-science 5.5 Science as a social endeavor 5.6 Knowledge and power CHAPTER 6: SCIENCE, VALUES, AND POLITICS 6.0 The aims of the sciences 6.1 Values and choices 6.2 The autonomy of the sciences 6.3 Powers behind the lab 6.4 What do want to know? 6.5 Deciding what we know 6.6 Conclusion

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