Philosophy of science : the key thinkers /: the key thinkers. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by James Robert Brown.
• Editors: Brown, James Robert
• Contents: AcknowledgementsNotes on Contributors Preface Introduction, James Robert Brown (University of Toronto, Canada)1. Experience and Necessity: The Whewell and Mill Debate, Laura Snyder (St. John's University, USA)2. Conventionalism: Poincaré, Duhem, Reichenbach, Torsten Wilholt (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany)3. The Vienna Circle: Moritz Schlick, Rudolf Carnap, Otto Neurath, Friedrich Stadler (University of Vienna, Austria)4. Carl G. Hempel: Logical Empiricist, Martin Curd (Purdue University, USA)5. Anti-Inductivism as Worldview: The Philosophy of Karl Popper, Steve Fuller (University of Warwick, UK)6. Historical Approaches: Kuhn, Lakatos and Feyerabend, Martin Carrier (Bielefeld University, Germany)7. The Contingency of the Causal Nexus: Ghazali and Modern Science, Arun Bala (National University of Singapore, Singapore)8.Sociology of Science: Bloor, Collins, Latour, Martin Kusch (University of Vienna, Austria)9. One Cannot Be Just a Little Bit Realist: Putnam and van Fraassen, Stathis Psillos (University of Athens, Greece)10. Beyond Theories: Hacking and Cartwright, William Seager (University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada)11. Feminist Critiques: Harding and Longino, Janet Kourany (University of Notre Dame, USA)Afterword Index.
• Edition: Second edition
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 509.22; Science -- Philosophy -- History; Philosophers -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350108240; 9781350108257
• Related ISBNs: 9781350108271; 9781350108264
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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