The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science 2nd Edition by Stathis Psillos, Martin Curd 9780415518758 041551875X
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ISBN 10: 041551875X
ISBN 13: 9780415518758
Author: Stathis Psillos, Martin Curd
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science is an indispensable reference source and guide to the major themes, debates, problems and topics in philosophy of science. It contains sixty-two specially commissioned entries by a leading team of international contributors. Organized into four parts it covers: historical and philosophical context debates concepts the individual sciences. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science addresses all of the essential topics that students of philosophy of science need to know – from empiricism, explanation and experiment to causation, observation, prediction and more – and contains many helpful features including chapters on individual sciences (such as biology, chemistry, physics and psychology), further reading and cross-referencing at the end of each chapter. Expanded and revised throughout, this second edition includes new chapters on Conventionalism, Social Epistemology, Computer Simulation, Thought Experiments, Pseudoscience, Species and Taxonomy, and Cosmology.
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science 2nd Table of contents:
Part I Historical and Philosophical Context
1 Conventionalism
2 The epistemology of science after Quine
3 The history of philosophy and the philosophy of science
4 Metaphysics
5 Philosophy of language
6 The role of logic in philosophy of science
7 Critical rationalism
8 The historical turn in the philosophy of science
9 Logical empiricism
10 Pragmatism and science
11 Social epistemology
Part II Debates
12 Bayesianism
13 Computer simulation
14 Confirmation
15 Empiricism
16 Essentialism and natural kinds
17 Ethics of science
18 Experiment
19 Explanation
20 The feminist approach to the philosophy of science
21 Inference to the best explanation
22 Laws of nature
23 Naturalism
24 Realism/anti-realism
25 Relativism about science
26 Scientific method
27 Social studies of science
28 The Structure of theories
29 Theory-change in science
30 Thought experiments
31 Underdetermination
32 Values in science
Part III Concepts
33 Causation
34 Determinism
35 Evidence
36 Function
37 Idealization
38 Measurement
39 Mechanisms
40 Models
41 Observation
42 Prediction
43 Probability
44 Pseudoscience
45 Reduction
46 Representation in science
47 Scientific discovery
48 Space and time
49 Species and taxonomy
50 Symmetry
51 Truthlikeness
52 Unification
53 The Virtues of a good theory
Part IV Individual sciences
54 Biology
55 Chemistry
56 Cognitive science
57 Cosmology
58 Economics
59 Mathematics
60 Physics
61 Psychology
62 Social sciences
Index
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