Philosophy of science / editors, Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling, Jr., Howard K. Wettstein.

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [1993], ©1993.

399 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: CMB

Fictionalism / Arthur Fine.--Underdetermination, realism, and reason / John Earman.--Epistemology for empiricists / Elliott Sober.--Wittgensteinian Bayesianism / Paul Horwich.--Carnapian inductive logic for a value continuum / Brian Skyrms.--How to defend a theory without testing it : Niels Bohr and the "logic of pursuit" / Peter Achinstein.--Empiricism, objectivity, and explanation / Elisabeth A. Lloyd and Carl G. Anderson.--Theoretical explanation / R.I.G. Hughes.--Selective scientific realism, constructive empiricism, and the unification of theories / Steven Savitt.--Essentially general predicates / Peter Railton.--On philosophy and natural philosophy in the seventeenth century / Howard Stein.--There's a hole and a bucket, dear Leibniz / Mark Wilson.--The transcendental character of determinism / Patrick Suppes.--Idealization and explanation : a case study from statistical mechanics / Lawrence Sklar.--The fabric of space : intrinsic vs extrinsic distance relations / Philip Bricker.--Against experimental metaphysics / Martin R. Jones and Robert K. Clifton.--Scientific realism and quantum mechanical realism / Linda Wessels.--Vacuum concepts, potentia, and the quantum field theoretic vacuum explained for all / Paul Teller.--Genic selection, molecular biology, and biological instrumentalism / Alex Rosenberg.--Could there be a science of economics? / John Dupré.--Function and design / Philip Kitcher.

Includes bibliographic references