文档介绍：Philosophy of Science
Praise for the first edition:
“A first-rate, challenging text that emphasizes the philosophy in the philosophy of
science. Rosenberg offers a superb introduction to the epistemological and meta-
physical issues at stake in modern science.”
Professor Martin Curd, Purdue University, Indiana
“Philosophy students will like the way the issues in philosophy of science are con-
nected to the basic concerns of epistemology and philosophy of language.”
Professor Peter Kosso, Northern Arizona University
“An engaging and clearly written introduction to the philosophy of science ...I was
especially pleased to see the discussions of probability, the semantic view of theories,
and science studies.”
Peter Lipton, Cambridge University
Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction introduces all the main themes in the
philosophy of science, including the nature of causation, explanation, laws, theory,
models, evidence, reductionism, probability, teleology, realism and instrumentalism.
This substantially revised and updated second edition of a highly essful,
accessible and user-friendly text will be of value to any student getting to grips with
the nature, methods and justification of science. Alex Rosenberg includes new
material on a number of subjects, including:
• the theory of natural selection
• Popper, Lakatos and Leibniz
• feminist philosophy of science
• logical positivism
• the origins of science
In addition, helpful features add greatly to the ease and clarity of this second edition:
• overviews and chapter summaries
• study questions and annotated further reading
• a helpful glossary explaining key words and concepts
Alex Rosenberg is R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy at Duke University,
Durham, North Carolina, USA. His eleven books in the philosophy of science
include The Structure of Biological Science (1985) and Philosophy of Social Science (1995).
In 1993 he won the Lakatos Prize in the Philosophy of Scie