The structure of science
Subtitle: problems in the logic of scientific explanation
Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul
Published: 1961
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 618
Subjects: Philosophy; Science
Notes: Includes bibliography.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: science and common sense; title: Patterns of scientific explanation; title: The deductive pattern of explanation; title: The logical character of scientific laws; title: Experimental laws and theories; title: The cognitive status of theories; title: Mechanical explanatins and the science of mechanics; title: Space and geometry; title: Geometry and physics; title: Causality and indeterminism in physical theory; title: The reduction of theories; title: Mechanistic explanatin and organismic biology; title: Methodological problems of the social sciences; title: Explanation and understanding in the social sciences; title: Problems in the logic of historical inquiry.