Organized to correspond to the companion volume, Philosophy of Science, these papers investigate the methods and goals of empirical science and explore connections between the history and philosophy of science. Review questions and an extensive bibliography make Foundations of Philosophy of Science useful as both a supplemental and independent text for courses in philosophy and the social sciences.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgments
General Introduction
I. THE LANGUAGE FRAMEWORK
Introduction
CARL G. HEMPEL
Principles of Definition
RUDOLF CARNAP Logical
Analysis of Language
W.V.O. QUINE
Two Dogmas of Empiricism
II. LAWS AND LAWLIKENESS
Introduction
NELSON GOODMAN The Problem of Counterfactual Conditionals
BRIAN SKYRMS
The Goodman Paradox and the New Riddle of Induction
KARL R. POPPER
Universals, Dispositions, and Natural or Physical Necessity
III. THE STRUCTURE OF THEORIES
Introduction
RUDOLF CARNAP Theories and
Nonobservables
FREDERICK SUPPE What’s Wrong with the
Received View on the Structure of Scientific
Theories?
CARL G. HEMPEL
Provisoes: A Problem Concerning the Inferential Function of Scientific
Theories
IV. EXPLANATION AND PREDICTION
Introduction
CARL G. HEMPEL
Explanation in Science and in History
WESLEY C. SALMON Statistical Explanation
JAMES H. FETZER A Single
Case Propensity Theory of Explanation
V. PROBABILITY AND INFERENCE
Introduction
JAMES H. FETZER Probability
and Objectivity in Deterministic and Indeterministic Situations
WESLEY C. SALMON Dynamic Rationality: Propensity, Probability,
and Credence
ELLERY EELLS
Probability, Inference, and Decision
VI. THE PROBLEM OF INDUCTION
Introduction
WESLEY C. SALMON An Encounter with David Hume
CARL G. HEMPEL
Recent Problems of Induction
JAMES H. FETZER
The Justification of Induction
VII. THE GROWTH OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE
Introduction
KARL R. POPPER
Science: Conjectures and Refutations
THOMAS S. KUHN Logic
of Discovery or Psychology of Research?
IMRE LAKATOS
History of Science and Its Rational Reconstructions
VIII. THE NATURE OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE
Introduction
KARL R. POPPER
Three Views Concerning Human Knowledge
W.V.O. QUINE
The Nature of Natural Knowledge
ROBERT ALMEDER On Naturalizing
Epistemology
POSTSCRIPT
Introduction
CHARLES S. PEIRCE The Scientific
Attitude and Fallibilism
For Further Reading
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
JAMES H. FETZER is professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. In addition to publishing over seventy articles and reviews, he is the author of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, 2nd edition (1996) and Philosophy of Science (1993), and co-author of the books, The Glossary of Epistemology/Philosophy of Science (with Robert Almeder) and The Glossary of Cognitive Science (with Charles Dunlop), all published by Paragon House.
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