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Philosophy of Science

By James Robert Brown

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2012
ISBN
1441128816, 9781441128812
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (4755860 bytes)
Series
Key Thinkers
Edition
1
Pages
288\289
Time added
2017-09-29 13:40:59
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Description

All the great philosophers from Plato and Aristotleto the present day have been philosophers of science. However, this bookconcentrates on modern philosophy of science, starting in the nineteenthcentury and offering coverage of all the leading thinkers in the fieldincluding Whewell, Mill, Reichenbach, Carnap, Popper, Feyerabend, Putnam, van Fraassen, Bloor,Latour, Hacking, Cartwright and many more. Crucially the book demonstrates howthe ideas and arguments of these key thinkers have contributed to ourunderstanding of such central issues as experience and necessity,conventionalism, logical empiricism, induction and falsification, the sociologyof science, and realism. Ideal for undergraduate students, the book lays thenecessary foundations for a complete and thorough understanding of thisfascinating subject.

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