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050 00 $aQ174.8$b.L67 1993
100 1 $aLosee, John.
245 12 $aA historical introduction to the philosophy of science /$cJohn Losee.
250 $a3rd ed., rev. and enlarged.
260 $aOxford [England] ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c1993.
300 $aviii, 323 p. :$bill. ;$c20 cm.
500 $a"An OPUS book"--Half t.p.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [286]-313) and indexes.
505 0 $aAristotle's philosophy of science -- The pythagorean orientation -- The ideal of deductive systematization -- Atomism and the concept of underlying mechanism -- Affirmation and development of Aristotle's method in the medieval period -- The dabate over saving the appearances -- The seventeenth-century attack on Aristotelian philosophy -- Newton's axiomatic method -- Analyses of the implications of the new science for a theory of scientific method -- Inductivism v. the hypothetico-deductive view of science -- Mathematical positivism and conventionalism -- Logical reconstructionist philosophy of science -- Orthodoxy under attack -- Theories of scientific progress -- Explanation, causation, and unification -- Confirmation and evidential support -- The justification of evaluative standards -- The dabate over scientific realism -- Descriptive philosophies of science.
650 0 $aScience$xPhilosophy$xHistory.
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