Introduction
PART I: EVIDENCE AND INDUCTION
1. Concepts of Evidence
2. Why Philosophical Theories of Evidence are (and ought to be) Ignored by Scientests
3. The Grue Paradox
4. The War on Induction
5. Waves and the Scientific Method
PART 2: EXPLANATION
6. An Illocutionary Theory of Explanation
7. The Pragmatic Character of Explanation
8. Can there be a Model of Explanation?
9. Explanation vs. Prediction: Which Carries More Weight?
10. Function Statements
PART 3: REALISM, MOLECULES, AND ELECTRONS
11. Is there a Valid Experimental Argument for Scientific Realism?
12. Jean Perrin and Molecular Reality
13. The Problem of Theoretical Terms
14. What to do if you want to Defend a Theory you can't Prove: A Method of Physical Speculation
15. Who Really Discovered the Electron?

About the Author

Peter Achinstein is Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein University Professor of Philosophy at Yeshiva University, and Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Concepts of Science; Law and Explanation; The Nature of Explanation; Particles and Waves (1993 Lakatos Award winner); and The Book of Evidence.

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