附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-252) and index.
The case of allergic disease: from everyday observation to microstructural explanation : Experimentation and research science : Observable mysteries ; physical microstructure. Mechanism and testing : Mast cell release ; immunoglobulin E. Intervention and manipulation : Released inflammatory mediator blockade ; mast cell release blockade ; immunoglobulin E blockade. Unification and explanation : Immunoglobulin E, Anthelminthic ; Allergy genes ; determination and explanation. The positivist model of scientific theories : Theories as formal languages ; A dummy scientific theory to illustrate the positivist model -- Trouble in positivist paradise : The point of the observational/theoretical distinction ; Ease of application ; Instrumentation ; Putnamian cynicism ; Encapsulated information processing ; Sensory surface distance. Correspondence-rules : Dispositional properties ; Holism. The underdetermination of theory : The Quine-Duhem thesis ; Popperian Falsification ; Is underdetermination a myth? ; Pragmatism and realism -- Reductionism, antireductionism, and supervenience ; Nagel's model of reduction ; Kemeny and Oppenheim's model of reduction ; The unity of science program ; The Putnam/Fodor multiple realization argument against the unity of science ; Supervenience to the rescue? ; Kim's model of supervenience ; Modest physicalism. The structure of scientific explanation : The deductive-nomological (D-N) model of scientific explanation : Laws of nature ; Standard counterexamples to the D-N model. The aleatory model of scientific explanation ; The unification model of scientific explanation ; Natural kinds, homeostatic property clusters, and the structural basis of reality -- The revenge of historicism : Anti-incrementalism ; Paradigms and the practice of solving and cautiousness of normal science ; Anomalies ; Revolutionary science ; Antirealism, relativism , and their shadows ; The case od modern immunology -- The social constructivist challenge ; The strong pr
