Introduction to the philosophy of science : cutting nature at its seams /

Klee, Robert, 1952-

Introduction to the philosophy of science : cutting nature at its seams / Robert Klee. - New York : Oxford University Press, 1997. - xi, 258 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-252) and index.

Ch. 1. The Case of Allergic Disease: From Everyday Observation to Microstructural Explanation -- Ch. 2. The Positivist Model of Scientific Theories -- Ch. 3. Trouble in Positivist Paradise -- Ch. 4. The Underdetermination of Theory -- Ch. 5. Reductionism, Antireductionism, and Supervenience -- Ch. 6. The Structure of Scientific Explanation -- Ch. 7. The Revenge of Historicism -- Ch. 8. The Social Constructivist Challenge -- Ch. 9. The Politics of Epistemology -- Ch. 10. The Actual Way Things Really Are.

0195106105 (clothbound) 9780195106107 (clothbound) 0195106113 (paper) 9780195106114 (paper)

96018851

GB97-57807


Science--Philosophy.
Immunology.

Q 175 / .K548 1997