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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,... Read more
Chapter 1: Why philosophy of science? civilization Chapter 2: Explanation, causation and laws Chapter 3: Scientific explanation and its discontents Chapter 4: The structure and metaphysics of scientific theories Chapter 5: The epistemology of scientific theorizing Chapter 6: The challenge of history and post-positivism Chapter 7: The nature of science and the fundamental questions of philosophy.
Biography
Alex Rosenberg is Professor of Philosophy at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA. His ten books in the philosophy of science include The Structure of Biological Science (1985) and Philosophy of Social Science (1995). He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Science Foundation. In 1993 he won the Lakatos Prize in the Philosophy of Science.
