Title:
Philosophy of science : a very short introduction
Author:
Okasha, Samir.
ISBN:
9780192802835
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Physical Description:
144 p. : ill., ports. ; 18 cm.
Series:
Very short introductions ; 67.
Contents:
1. What is science? -- 2. Scientific reasoning -- 3. Explanation in science -- 4. Realism and anti-realism -- 5. Scientific change and scientific revolutions -- 6. Philosophical problems in physics, biology, and psychology -- 7. Science and its critics.
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