Philosophy of Science

The Key Thinkers

Professor James Robert Brown (University of Toronto, Canada), Martin Carrier, Laura J. Snyder , Alan Richardson

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Continuum
16 February 2012

Philosophy; Philosophy of science

Series: Key Thinkers

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.

Contributions by: Martin Carrier, Laura J. Snyder, Alan Richardson, Stathis Psillos
Edited by: Professor James Robert Brown (University of Toronto Canada)
Imprint: Continuum
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 348g
ISBN: 9781441142009
ISBN 10: 1441142002
Series: Key Thinkers
Publication Date: 16 February 2012
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 for Philosophy of Science: The Key Thinkers

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