The Structure of Scientific Thought : an Introduction to Philosophy of Science /
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin,
[1960]
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Making sense of science
- The origins of modern science / Chauncey Wright
- Studies in the logic of explanation / Carl G. Hempel, Paul Oppenheim
- Crucial experiments / Irving M. Copi
- Measurement / Morris R. Cohen, Ernest Nagel
- The first physical synthesis / Alfred North Whitehead
- pt. 2. Philosophical problems of physics
- Empirical and a prioir knowledge / Immanuel Kant
- Geometry and empirical science / Carl G. Hempel
- The method of science / Albert Einstein
- Einstein, Mach, and logical positivism / Phillip Frank
- Are there atoms? Hans Reichenbach
- On philosophical arguments in physics / S. Körner
- pt. 3. Biology and the sciences of man
- The scientific revolution in biology / Everett W. Hall
- Mechanistic explanation and organismic biology / Ernest Nagel
- Historical and modern conceptions of psychology / Kenneth W. Spence
- Psychological theory construction and the psychologist / Edweard Joseph Shoben, Jr.
- The operation called Verstehen / Theodore Abel
- Societal facts / Maurice Mandelbaum
- Everyman his own historian / Carl Becker
- Some issues in the logic of historical analysis / Ernest Nagel
- pt. 4. The meaning of 'cause' and 'law'
- Cause / A.C. Ewing
- The idea of necessary connexion / David Hume
- Causality: critique of Hume's analysis / Curt J. Ducasse
- Invariable and unconditional antecedents / J.S. Mill
- Law statements and counterfactual inference / Roderick M. Chisholm
- Historical Laws / Gustav Bergman
- pt. 5 Probability notions
- Probability and its principles / Pierre Simon, Marquis de Laplace
- Difficulties of the classical view of probability / John Venn
- The frequencey theory of probability / John W. Lenz
- Statistical and inductive probability / Rudolf Carnap
- The conception of probability as a logical relation / A.J. Ayer
- pt. 6. The riddle of induction
- Of the ground of induction / J.S. Mill
- Induction as experimental and self-corrective / Charles S. Peirce
- The pragmatic justification of induction / John W. Lenz
- The "justification" of induction / P.F. Strawson
- The riddle of induction / Edward H. Madden
- Non-demonstrative inference and induction / Bertrand Russell
- pt. 7. Science and values
- Implications of physics for ethics / Ernst Cassirer
- Psychoanalysis and moral judgeability / Edward H. Madden
- Reconstruction in moral conceptions / John Dewey
- Comment on Dewey's ethical views / Melvin Rader
- Value judgments in scientific validation / Richard Rudner