- ホーム
- > 洋書
- > 英文書
- > Philosophy
Full Description
This user-friendly text covers key issues in the philosophy of science in an accessible and philosophically serious way. It will prove valuable to students studying philosophy of science as well as science students.
Prize-winning author Alex Rosenberg explores the philosophical problems that science raises by its very nature and method. He skilfully demonstrates that scientific explanation, laws, causation, theory, models, evidence, reductionism, probability, teleology, realism and instrumentalism actually pose the same questions that Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Kant and their successors have grappled with for centuries.
Contents
Chapter 1: Why philosophy of science? civilization Chapter 2: Explanation, causation and laws Chapter 3: Scientific explanation and its discontents Chapter 4: The structure and metaphysics of scientific theories Chapter 5: The epistemology of scientific theorizing Chapter 6: The challenge of history and post-positivism Chapter 7: The nature of science and the fundamental questions of philosophy.



