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2、ystudentswilllikethewaytheissuesinphilosophyofsciencearecon-nectedtothebasicconcernsofepistemologyandphilosophyoflanguage.”ProfessorPeterKosso,NorthernArizonaUniversity“Anengagingandclearlywrittenintroductiontothephilosophyofscience...Iwasespeciallypleasedtoseethediscussionso
3、fprobability,thesemanticviewoftheories,andsciencestudies.”PeterLipton,CambridgeUniversityPhilosophyofScience:AContemporaryIntroductionintroducesallthemainthemesinthephilosophyofscience,includingthenatureofcausation,explanation,laws,theory,models,evidence,reductionism,probabil
4、ity,teleology,realismandinstrumentalism.Thissubstantiallyrevisedandupdatedsecondeditionofahighlysuccessful,accessibleanduser-friendlytextwillbeofvaluetoanystudentgettingtogripswiththenature,methodsandjustificationofscience.AlexRosenbergincludesnewmaterialonanumberofsubjects,in
5、cluding:•thetheoryofnaturalselection•Popper,LakatosandLeibniz•feministphilosophyofscience•logicalpositivism•theoriginsofscienceInaddition,helpfulfeaturesaddgreatlytotheeaseandclarityofthissecondedition:•overviewsandchaptersummaries•studyquestionsandannotatedfurtherreading•ahe
6、lpfulglossaryexplainingkeywordsandconceptsAlexRosenbergisR.TaylorColeProfessorofPhilosophyatDukeUniversity,Durham,NorthCarolina,USA.HiselevenbooksinthephilosophyofscienceincludeTheStructureofBiologicalScience(1985)andPhilosophyofSocialScience(1995).In1993hewontheLakatosPrizei
7、nthePhilosophyofScience.RoutledgeContemporaryIntroductionstoPhilosophySerieseditor:PaulK.MoserLoyolaUniversityofChicagoThisinnovative,well-structuredseriesisforstudentswhohavealreadydoneanintroductorycourseinphilosophy.Eachbookintroducesacoregeneralsubjectincontemporaryphilos
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