Readings in the Philosophy of Science

Theories As Partially Interpreted Formal Systems / Rudolf Carnap -- A Logical Appraisal Of Operationism / Carl G. Hempel -- The Ontological Status Of Theoretical Entities / Grover Maxwell -- Do We See Through A Microscope? / Ian Hacking -- Models And Theories / Marshall Spector -- To Save The Phenomena / Bas C. Van Fraassen -- The Reality Of Causes In A World Of Instrumental Laws / Nancy Cartwright -- The Anti-realist Epistemology Of Van Fraassen's The Scientific Image / Paul M. Churchland -- Explanation And Reference / Hilary Putnam -- And Not Anti-realism Either / Arthur Fine -- How To Be A Good Empiricist : A Plea For Tolerance In Matters Epistemological / P.k. Feyerabend -- Reason, Reference, And The Quest For Knowledge / Dudley Shapere. Two Dogmas Of Methodology / Larry Laudan -- Studies In The Logic Of Explanation / Carl G. Hempel And Paul Oppenheim -- Statistical Explanation And Its Models / Wesley C. Salmon -- The Truth Doesn't Explain Much / Nancy Cartwright -- Towards An Aristotelian Theory Of Scientific Explanation / B.a. Brody -- Can There Be A Model Of Explanation? / Peter Achinstein -- The Pragmatics Of Explanation / Bas C. Van Fraassen -- Causation Or Explanation / Michael Scriven -- Causes And Conditions / J.l. Mackie -- The Laws Of Nature / Hans Reichenbach -- Studies In The Logic Of Confirmation / Carl G. Hempel -- Statistical And Inductive Probability / Rudolf Carnap -- On Inductive Logic / Rudolf Carnap -- The New Riddle Of Induction / Nelson Goodman. Implications Of Personal Probability For Induction / Leonard J. Savage -- The Inference To The Best Explanation / Gilbert H. Harman -- Relevant Evidence / Clark Glymour -- The Role Of Crucial Experiments In Science / Imre Lakatos -- Objectivity, Value Judgment, And Theory Choice / Thomas S. Kuhn -- From Theories To Research Traditions / Larry Laudan -- Philosophy Of Science Naturalized / Ronald N. Giere -- Is There A Logic Of Scientific Discovery? / Norwood Russell Hanson -- Why Was The Logic Of Discovery Abandoned? / Larry Laudan -- The Logic Of Discovery : An Analysis Of Three Approaches / Martin V. Curd -- The Relativity Of Space / Henri Poincaré -- The Nature Of Geometry / Hans Reichenbach. The Twin Sisters : Philosophy And Geometry / Wesley C. Salmon -- Mechanistic Explanation And Organismic Biology / Ernest Nagel -- Explanation And Teleology / Larry Wright -- Functional Analysis / Robert Cummins -- The Reduction Of Teleological Sciences / B.a. Brody -- Teleology Redux / Michael Ruse. Edited By Baruch A. Brody, Richard E. Grandy. Bibliography: P. 529-531.