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