Scientific inquiry : readings in the philosophy of science - Klee, Robert, 1952- (New York : Oxford University Press, 1952)
[Most selections are excerpts from longer works] Pt. 1, The positivist model of scientific theories and its problems -- Logic, language, and the observational/theoretical distinction : The rise of logical positivism / Alexander Rosenberg ; The positivist model of scientific theories / Frederick Suppe ; Problems with the operational/theoretical distinction / Hilary Putnam ; Theoretical entities / Grover Maxwell ; A defense of the observational/theoretical distinction / Bas van Fraassen ; Technical interlude : A critique of operationalism / Carl Hempel -- The underdetermination of theory and holism : Physical theory and experiment / Pierre Duheim ; Falsificationism / Sir Karl Popper ; Holism : part 1, Two dogmas of empiricism ; part 2, Posits and reality / W.V. Quine ; Technical interlude ; A critique of underdetermination / Larry Laudan -- Reductionism, antireductionism, and scientific explanation : A model of intertheoretic reduction / Ernest Nagel ; Unity of science / Paul Oppenheim and Hilary Putnam ; A critique of physiological reductionism / Jerry Fodor ; Technical interlude : The nature of supervenience / Jaegwon Kim ; The deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation / Carl G. Hempel and Paul Oppenheim ; The unification model of scientific explanation / Philip Kitcher ; Technical interlude : The aleatory model of scientific explanation / Paul Humphreys -- Pt. 2, Historicism and its aftermath -- The Kuhnian model of science : The nature of normal science ; The nature of revolutionary science / Thomas Kuhn ; The rationality of science after Kuhn / Ian Hacking ; Polemical interlude : An argument against method /. Paul Feyerabend -- Social constructivism and feminism : The strong programme in the sociology of science / David Bloor ; A social constructivist field study / Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar ; A critique of social constructivism / James Robert brown ; Polemical interlude : The Sokal hoax / Paul Boghossian ; Feminist science criticism / Sandra Harding ; Problems with feminist epistemology / Cassandra Pinnick ; Polemical interlude : A critique of feminist science criticism / Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt -- Realism and antirealism : Realism in mathematics and elsewhere / Hilary Putnam ; Alternatives to realism / Bas van Fraassen ; Realism and scientific progress / Philip Kitcher ; Realism, antirealism, and NOA / James Robert Brown ; Polemical interlude : Idealism and antirealism / Alan Musgrave.
Includes bibliographical references.
Keywords: Science -- Philosophy; Positivism; Historicism