Overview

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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Author:   Professor James Robert Brown (University of Toronto, Canada) ,  Martin Carrier ,  Laura J. Snyder ,  Alan Richardson
Publisher:   Continuum Publishing Corporation
Imprint:   Continuum Publishing Corporation
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.515kg
ISBN:  

9781441128812

ISBN 10:   1441128816
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   19 April 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

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.

Reviews

This book delivers twice on its title: it offers a comprehensive discussion of key thinkers in philosophy of science of the past 150 years and the authors are a dozen of their most distinguished and innovative successors at work today. The result shows a vibrant discipline in which each generation reflects on-and moves beyond-the classic debates. An insightful and inspiring survey of philosophy of science, its history, and its progress. -- James W. McAllister, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Leiden, The Netherlands and Editor of International Studies in the Philosophy of Science

Author Information

James Robert Brown is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, Canada. His previous publications include The Rational and the Social (Routledge, 1989), Smoke and Mirrors: How Science Reflects Reality (Routledge, 1994), Philosophy of Mathematics (Routledge, Second Edition 2008) and The Laboratory of the Mind (Routledge, Second Edition 2009), Who Rules in Science: A Guide to the Wars (Harvard 2001), and Platonism, Naturalism, and Mathematical Knowledge (Routledge 2011).

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