Table of Contents

Philosophy of Science: An Introduction; Epistemology and Metaphysics; Introduction: Epistemology and Metaphysics; Abduction; Analyticity; Approximation; Bayesianism; Causality; Cognitive Significance; Confirmation Theory; Conventionalism; Corroboration; Decision Theory; Demarcation, Problem of; Determinism; Duhem Thesis; Dutch Book Argument; Emergence; Empiricism; Epistemology; Evolutionary Epistemology; Experiment; Explanation; Explanation, Mechanistic; Explication; Feminist Philosophy of Science; Function; Incommensurability; Induction, Problem of; Inductive Logic; Instrumentalism; Laws of Nature; Logical Empiricism; Naturalism; Observation; Operationalism; Optimization; Parsimony; Perception; Phenomenalism; Physicalism; Prediction; Probability; Protocol Sentences; Randomness; Rational Reconstruction; Realism; Reductionism; Research Programs; Scientific Change; Scientific Domains; Scientific Metaphors; Scientific Models; Scientific Progress; Scientific Revolutions; Scientific Style; Social Constructivism; Supervenience; Teleology; Theories; Theories of Reference; Underdetermination of Theories; Unity and Disunity of Science; Unity of Science Movement; Verifiability; Verisimiltude; Vienna Circle; Visualization; Biology; Introduction: Philosophy of Biology; Adaptation; Altruism; Biodiversity; Biological Information; Conservation Biology; Developmental Biology; Ecology; Evolution; Fitness; Genetics; Heritability; Immunology; Individuality; Innate/Aquired Distinction; Molecular Biology; Natural Selection; Population Genetics; Self/Non-Self Distinction; Sociobiology; Species; Physical Sciences; Introduction: Philosophy of Physics; Anthropic Principle; Astronomy, Philosophy of; Chemistry, Philosophy of; Classical Mechanics; Complementarity; Irreversibility; Kinetic Theory; Locality; Particle Physics; Quantum Field Theory; Quantum Logic; Quantum Measurement Problem; Quantum Mechanics; Space-Time; Statistical Mechanics; Thermodynamics; Time; Psychology and Mind; Introduction: Philosophy of Psychology; Artificial Intelligence; Cognitive Science; Connectionism; Consciousness; Evolutionary Psychology; Intentionality; Neurobiology; Social Sciences; Introduction: Philosophy of the Social Sciences; Behaviorism; Economics, Philosophy of; Game Theory; Linguistics, Philosophy of; Methodological Individualism; Statistics; Statistics, Philosophy of; Principal Figures; Introduction: Principal Figures; Ayer, A. J.; Bridgman, Percy; Carnap, Rudolf; Chomsky, Noam; Einstein, Albert; Feigl, Herbert; Feyerabend, Paul; Hahn, Hans; Hanson, Norwood Russell; Hempel, Carl; Hilbert, David; Kuhn, Thomas; Lakatos, Imre; Mach, Ernest; Nagel, Ernst; Neurath, Otto; Poincare, Henri; Popper, Karl; Putnam, Hilary; Quine, W. V.; Ramsey, Frank P.; Reichenbach, Hans; Russell, Bertrand; Schlick, Moritz; Searle, John; Turing, Alan; von Neumann, John

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