The Philosophy of Science

The newest addition to the successful Oxford Readings in Philosophy series, this collection contains the most important contributions to the recent debate on the philosophy of science. The contributors crystallize the often heated arguments of the last two decades, assessing the skeptical attitudes within philosophy of science and the counter-challenges of the scientific realists. Contributors include Nancy Cartwright, Brian Ellis, Arthur Fine, Clark Glymour, Larry Laudan, Peter Lipton, Alan Musgrave, Wesely C. Salmon, Lawrence Sklar, Bas C. van Fraassen, and John Worrall.

Introduction	p. 1
The Natural Ontological Attitude	p. 21
NOA's Ark - Fine for Realism	p. 45
Saving the Noumena	p. 61
To Save the Phenomena	p. 82
Is the Best Good Enough?	p. 93
A Confutation of Convergent Realism	p. 107
Structural Realism: The Best of Both Worlds?	p. 139
What Science Aims to Do	p. 166
Progress or Rationality? The Prospects for Normative Naturalism	p. 194
Realism, Approximate Truth, and Philosophical Method	p. 215
Rationality and Objectivity in Science or Tom Kuhn Meets Tom Bayes	p. 256
Why I am not a Bayesian	p. 290
Fundamentalism vs the Patchwork of Laws	p. 314
Notes on the Contributors	p. 327
Annotated Bibliography	p. 329
Index of Names	p. 337
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