CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

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CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Book Review Title: Philosophy of Science: The Central Issues Authors: J. A. Cover and Martin Curd Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Publication Date: March 17, 1998 Length: 1408 pages Type: Paperback, Anthology ISBN: 0393971759 Price: $49.95 Cover and Curd’s Philosophy of Science: The Central Issues is an extensive compendium, separated into 9 chapters, each chapter covering one of the following topics: the Demarcation Problem (distinguishing science from pseudo-science based on the strength of scientific theory and evidence), Values and Objectivity in Science, Under-determination and the Duhem-Quine Thesis, Induction and the Nature of Scientific Explanation, Laws of Nature, Inter-theoretic Reduction, and Scientific Realism.

The 49 included readings are written by some of the most important philosophers in the field, writers of both historical/foundational, as well as contemporary interest, including Thomas Kuhn, Karl Popper, Carl Hempel, Imre Lakatos, Larry Laudan, Paul Feyerabend, Pierre Duhem, Willard V.O. Quine, Helen Longino, Philip Kitcher, Ernan McMullin, Bas van Fraassen, Wesley Salomon, and Ian Hacking, among others. The book is well organized. Each chapter includes a short introduction by