COPYRIGHT	5
	CONTENTS	6
	ILLUSTRATIONS	10
	CONTRIBUTORS	12
	INTRODUCTION	20
	PART I: HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL CONTEXT	30
	1 THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF SCIENCE AFTER QUINE	32
	2 THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE	44
	3 METAPHYSICS	55
	4 PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE	65
	5 THE ROLE OF LOGIC IN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE	76
	6 CRITICAL RATIONALISM	87
	7 THE HISTORICAL TURN IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE	96
	8 LOGICAL EMPIRICISM	107
	9 PRAGMATISM AND SCIENCE	120
	PART II: DEBATES	130
	10 BAYESIANISM	132
	11 CONFIRMATION	144
	12 EMPIRICISM	158
	13 ESSENTIALISM AND NATURAL KINDS	168
	14 ETHICS OF SCIENCE	178
	15 EXPERIMENT	188
	16 EXPLANATION	200
	17 THE FEMINIST APPROACH TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE	211
	18 INFERENCE TO THE BEST EXPLANATION	222
	19 LAWS OF NATURE	232
	20 NATURALISM	242
	21 REALISM/ANTI-REALISM	253
	22 RELATIVISM ABOUT SCIENCE	265
	23 SCIENTIFIC METHOD	277
	24 SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE	288
	25 THE STRUCTURE OF THEORIES	298
	26 THEORY-CHANGE IN SCIENCE	310
	27 UNDERDETERMINATION	321
	28 VALUES IN SCIENCE	331
	PART III: CONCEPTS	344
	29 CAUSATION	346
	30 DETERMINISM	356
	31 EVIDENCE	366
	32 FUNCTION	378
	33 IDEALIZATION	387
	34 MEASUREMENT	396
	35 MECHANISMS	405
	36 MODELS	414
	37 OBSERVATION	425
	38 PREDICTION	434
	39 PROBABILITY	443
	40 REDUCTION	454
	41 REPRESENTATION IN SCIENCE	464
	42 SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY	471
	43 SPACE AND TIME	481
	44 SYMMETRY	497
	45 TRUTHLIKENESS	507
	46 UNIFICATION	518
	47 THE VIRTUES OF A GOOD THEORY	527
	Part IV: INDIVIDUAL SCIENCES	538
	48 BIOLOGY	540
	49 CHEMISTRY	549
	50 COGNITIVE SCIENCE	560
	51 ECONOMICS	572
	52 MATHEMATICS	584
	53 PHYSICS	596
	54 PSYCHOLOGY	610
	55 SOCIAL SCIENCES	623
	INDEX	634