This popular reader is vastly updated with ten stimulating new selections on the natural and the social sciences; feminism; postmodernism, relativism, and science, confirmation, acceptance, and theory; explanatory unification; and science and values.
When first published, reviewers praised it as a unique and carefully compiled primer for scholars, students, and others involved in the study of the frontiers of science and its relationship to philosophy. Retaining the best essays from the previous editions, the editors have added important new pieces to maintain this influential text's relevance for today and tomorrow. Included are new study questions, updated section introductions, revised select bibliographies, and a valuable appendix for instructors with case studies for each section. Included are works by Kurt Baier, Paul Feyerabend, Bas van Frassen Ronald Giere, Carl G. Hempel Robert Hollinger, Philip Kitcher, Thomas Kuhn, Sir Karl Popper, Wesley Salmon, Hugh Tomlinson, Stephen Toulmin, John Ziman, and others.
E.D. Klemke (Ames, Iowa) is professor of philosophy at Iowa State University. Robert Hollinger is a professor of philosophy at Iowa State. David Wyss Rudge is an assistant professor of philosophy of biology at Iowa State. A. David Kline (New Paltz, NY) is professor of the philosophy of science at the State University of New York College at New Paltz.
Approx 525 pages ISBN 1-57392-240-4 Paper
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