Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy)

Alex Rosenberg

ISBN 10: 041515281X / ISBN 13: 9780415152815

Published by Routledge, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041515281X
• ISBN 13: 9780415152815
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Like New

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Synopsis

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, causation, theory, models, evidence, reductionism, probability, teleology, realism and instrumentalism actually pose the same questions that Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Kant and their successors have grappled with for centuries.

About the Author

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.