TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lange,Marc
TI  - Philosophy of science: an anthology 
T2  - Blackwell philosophy anthologies
SN  - 1405130334 (acidfree paper)
AV  - Q175 .P5123 2006
U1  - 501 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Malden, MA
PB  - Blackwell Pub.
KW  - Science
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Empiricism
KW  - Realism
KW  - Causation
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; Empiricist criteria of cognitive significance : problems and changes; Carl G. Hempel --; 2; Studies in the logic of confirmation; Carl G. Hempel --; 3; Confirmation and relevance; Wesley C. Salmon --; 4; The new riddle of induction; Nelson Goodman --; 5; Explanations, tests, unity, and necessity; Clark Glymour --; 6; Rationality and objectivity in science (or : Tom Kuhn meets Tom Bayes); Wesley C. Salmon --; 7; Let's Razor Ockham's Razor; Elliott Sober --; 8; Foundational physics and empiricist critique; Lawrence Sklar --; 9; Darwin's achievement; Philip Kitcher --; 10; Objectivity, value judgment, and theory choice; Thomas S. Kuhn --; 11; The theoretician's dilemma; Carl G. Hempel --; 12 (a); Phenomenalism; Wilfrid F. Sellars --; 12 (b); The language of theories; Wilfrid F. Sellars --; 13 (a); Arguments concerning scientific realism; Bas C. Van Fraassen --; 13 (b); To save the phenomena; Bas C. Van Fraassen --; 14; Empirical equivalence and underdetermination; Larry Laudan and Jarrett Leplin --; 15; Structural realism : the best of both worlds?; John Worrall --; 16; Extragalactic reality : the case of gravitational lensing; Ian Hacking --; 17; Laws and their role in scientific explanation; Carl G. Hempel --; 18 (a); The laws of nature; David Lewis --; 18 (b); Humean supervenience; David Lewis --; 19; Laws of nature; Fred I. Dretske --; 20; The evolutionary contingency thesis; John Beatty --; 21; Who's afraid of Ceteris-Paribus laws? : (or : how I learned to stop worrying and love them); Marc Lange --; 22; A tradition of natural kinds; Ian Hacking --; 23; Evolution, population thinking, and essentialism; Elliott Sober --; 24; Homeostasis, species, and higher taxa; Richard Boyd --; 25; Some puzzles about species; Philip Kitcher --; 26; Special sciences (or : the disunity of science as a working hypothesis); Jerry A. Fodor --; 27; Causation and recipes; Douglas Gasking --; 28; Causation as influence; David Lewis --; 29; Causation and the flow of energy; David Fair --; 30; Probabilistic causality; Wesley C. Salmon --; 31; Causal laws and effective strategies; Nancy Cartwright --; 32; The propensity interpretation of fitness; Susan K. Mills and John Beatty --; 33; A subjectivist's guide to objective chance; David Lewis --; 34; On Einstein-Minkowski space-time; Howard Stein --; 35; What price spacetime substantivalism? : the hole story; John Earman and John Norton --; 36; The genidentity of quantum particles; Hans Reichenbach --; 37; Is the moon there when nobody looks? : reality and the quantum theory; N. David Mermin --; 38; Part and whole in quantum mechanics; Tim Maudlin
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