Philosophy of Science The Key Thinkers
- New Delhi Bloomsbury 2017
- 263p
includes index and biblioraphy
Experience and necessity: The mill-whewell debate ...10 Conventionalism : Poincare, Duhem, Reichenbach......32 The vienna Circle: Moritz schlick, otto Neurath and Rudolf Carnap .............53 Carl G. Hempel: Logical Empiricist .......83 Anti-Inuctivism as Worldview : The philosophy of Karl Popper .............112 Historical Approaches: Kuhn, Lakatos and Feyerabend..............132 The Contingency of the Causal Nexus : Ghazali and modern science ......152 Sociology of Science: Bloor, Collins, Latour.......168 One Cannot be just a Little bit Realist: Putnam and Van Fraassen ............188 Beyond theories : Cartwright and hacking ..............213 Feminist Critiques: Harding and longino.........236