General Topics


Chalmers, A.F. What is this thing called science? , 2nd ed., St. Lucia, Qld, University of Queensland Press, 1982

Boyd, R., Gasper P., and Trout J. (eds.) The Philosophy of Science , Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991

Brown, James , Robert Smoke and Mirrors: How science reflects reality , London, Routledge, 1994

Gillies, Donald Philosophy of Science in the Twentieth Century , Cambridge, Blackwell Publishers,1993

Hempel, C. Philosophy of Natural Science , Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1966

Kosso, Peter Reading the Book of Nature , Cambridge NY: Cambridge University Press, 1992

Kourany, J. (ed.). Scientific Knowledge . Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1987

Leplin, J. (ed.). Scientific Realism . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1984

Scientific Explanation


Cartwright, N. How the Laws of Physics Lie . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993

Hempel, C. Philosophy of Natural Science , Chapter 5

Kitcher, P. "Expanatory Unification and the Causal Structure of the World." In P. Kitcher and W. Salmon (eds.), Scientific Explanation Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989.
Kourany, J. (ed.). Scientific Knowledge , Part 2

Salmon, W. Four Decades of Scientific Explanation . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989

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