附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-184) and index.
Why philosophy of science? -- Explanation, causation and laws -- Scientific explanation and its discontents -- The structure and metaphysics of scientific theories -- The epistemology of scientific theorizing -- The challenge of history and post-positivism -- The nature of science and the fundamental questions of philosophy.
摘要: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.
