Philosophy of Science in the Twentieth Century: Four Central Themes.

Peter Milne · Donald A. Gillies · Peter Kosso · Alan E. Musgrave

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Part I: Inductivism and its Critics: 1. Some Historical Background: Inductivism, Russell and the Cambridge School, the Vienna Circle and Popper. 2. Popper's Critique of Inductivism. 3. Duhem's Critique of Inductivism. Part II: Conventionalism and the Duhem-Quine Thesis: 4. Poincare's Conventionalism of 1902. 5. The Duhem Thesis and the Quine Thesis. Part III: The Nature of Observation: 6. Observation Statements: (a) the Views of Carnap, Neurath, Popper and Duhem. 7. Observation Statements: (b) Some Psychological Findings. Part IV: The Demarcation between Science and Metaphysics: 8. Is Metaphysics Meaningless? Wittgenstein, the Vienna Circle and Popper's Critique. 9. Metaphysics in relation to Science: the Views of Popper, Duhem and Quine. 10. Falsification in the light of the Duhem-Quine Thesis.

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