附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-383) and index.
Introduction: From Physics to the Human Sciences -- The Itinerary of an Attitude -- pt. I. Explanation. 1. Aspects of Hempel's Philosophy of Science. 2. Science and System: On the Unity and Diversity of Scientific Theory. 3. Gosse's Omphalos Theory and the Eccentricity of Belief. 4. Creationism and Evolution -- pt. II. Hume's Problem. 5. The Paradox of Induction and the Inductive Wager. 6. The Structure of Discovery. 7. Induction and the Kindness of Nature -- pt. III. Logic and Causality. 8. Three Logics, or the Possibility of the Improbable. 9. Mach's Principle and the Laws of Logic. 10. A Quantum Theory of Causality. 11. A Negative Interpretation of the Causal Principle -- pt. IV. Machines and Practices. 12. Science, Computers, and the Complexity of Nature. 13. Praxis and Techne. 14. On the Concept of a Domain of Praxis. 15. Individual Praxis in Real Time. 16. Towards a Philosophy of Technology. 17. Scientific Theory as an Historical Anomaly.
