Title: Philosophy of science : the key thinkers /
Authors: Brown, James Robert.; Brown, James Robert,
Publisher: Continuum,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Science Philosophy History; Philosophers Biography; Wissenschaftsphilosophie.
Contents: Experience and necessity: the Mill-Whewell debate / Laura J. Snyder -- Conventionalism: Poincaré, Duhem, Reichenbach / Torsten Wilholt -- The Vienna Circle: Moritz Schlick, Otto Neurath and Rudolf Carnap / Friedrich Stadler -- Carl G. Hempel: logical empiricist / Martin Curd -- Anti-Inductivism as worldview: the philosophy of Karl Popper / Steve Fuller -- Historical approaches: Kuhn, Lakatos and Feyerabend / Martin Carrier -- The contingency of the causal nexus: Ghazali and modern science / Arun Bala -- Sociology of science: Bloor, Collins, Latour / Martin Kusch -- One cannot be just a little bit realist: Putnam and van Fraassen / Stathis Psillos -- Beyond theories: Cartwright and Hacking / William Seager -- Feminist critiques: Harding and Longino / Janet Kourany.