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BOOK I INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 82 pages

Chapter I - Overview
1.01 Aim of Philosophy of Science 1.02 Computational Philosophy of Science 1.03 Two Perspectives on Language 1.04 Dimensions of Language 1.05 Classifications of Functional Topics 1.06 Classification of Modern Philosophies

Chapter II – Three Modern Philosophies

2.01 Romanticism 2.02 Positivism 2.03 Contemporary Pragmatism

Chapter III - Philosophy of Language
3.01 Synchronic and Diachronic Analysis 3.02 Object Language and Metalanguage 3.03 Dimensions of Language 3.04 Syntactical Dimension 3.05 Syntactical Rules 3.06 Mathematical Language 3.07 Logical Quantification in Mathematics 3.08 Semantical Dimension 3.09 Nominalist vs. Conceptualist Semantics 3.10 Naturalistic vs. Artifactual Semantics 3.11 Romantic Semantics 3.12 Positivist Semantics 3.13 Positivist Thesis of Meaning Variance 3.14 Positivist Analytic-Synthetic Dichotomy 3.15 Positivist Observation-Theory Dichotomy 3.16 Contemporary Pragmatist Semantics 3.17 Pragmatist Semantics Illustrated 3.18 Rejection of the Observation-Theory Dichotomy 3.19 Rejection of Meaning Invariance 3.20 Rejection of the Analytic-Synthetic Dichotomy 3.21 Semantical Rules 3.22 Componential vs. Wholistic Semantics 3.23 Componential Artifactual Semantics Illustrated 3.24 Semantic Values 3.25 Univocal and Equivocal Terms 3.26 Signification and Supposition 3.27 Aside on Metaphor 3.28 Clear and Vague Meaning 3.29 Semantics of Mathematical Language 3.30 Semantical State Descriptions 3.31 Diachronic Comparative-Static Analysis 3.32 Dynamic Diachronic Analysis 3.33 Computational Philosophy of Science 3.34 An Interpretation Issue 3.35 Ontological Dimension 3.36 Metaphysical and Scientific Realism 3.37 Ontological Relativity Defined 3.38 Ontological Relativity Illustrated 3.39 Causality 3.40 Ontology of Mathematical Language 3.41 Pragmatic Dimension 3.42 Semantic Definitions of Theory Language 3.43 Pragmatic Definition of Theory Language 3.44 Pragmatic Definition of Test-Design Language 3.45 Pragmatic Definition of Observation Language 3.46 Observation and Test Execution 3.47 Scientific Professions 3.48 Semantic Individuation of Theories

Chapter IV – Philosophy of Science Topics
4.01 Institutionalized Aim of Science 4.02 Positivist Aim 4.03 Romantic Aim 4.04 More Recent Ideas 4.05 Aim of Maximizing “Explanatory Coherence” 4.06 Contemporary Pragmatist Aim 4.07 Institutional Change 4.08 Philosophy’s Cultural Lag 4.09 Cultural Lags among Sciences 4.10 Scientific Discovery 4.11 Discovery Systems 4.12 Types of Theory Development 4.13 Examples of Successful Discovery Systems 4.14 Scientific Criticism 4.15 Logic of Empirical Testing 4.16 Test Logic Illustrated 4.17 Semantics of Empirical Testing 4.18 Test-Design Revision 4.19 Empirical Underdetermination 4.20 Scientific Pluralism 4.21 Scientific Truth 4.22 Nonempirical Criteria 4.23 The “Best Explanation” Criteria 4.24 Nonempirical Linguistic Constraints 4.25 Cognition Constraint 4.26 Communication Constraint 4.27 Scientific Explanation

BOOK II ERNST MACH AND PIERRE DUHEM ON
PHYSICAL THEORY
25 pages

Mach's Phenomenalism      Mach's Philosophy of Science      Mach's History of Mechanics      Duhem on Physical Theory and Metaphysics      Duhem's Stratified Semantics for Physics      Duhem's Philosophy of Science      Duhem's History of Physics      The New Physics vs the Old Philosophy    Comment and Conclusion

BOOK III RUDOLF CARNAP ON SEMANTICAL SYSTEMS
AND W.V.O. QUINE'S PRAGMATIST CRITIQUE
75 pages
Logical Constructionalism      Einstein and Mathematical vs. Physical Geometry      The Aufbau and "Rational Reconstruction"      Logical Syntax of Language      Semantical Systems: Definitions and Characteristics      Semantical Systems: Ontological vs. Linguistic Issues      Semantical Systems: Physics and the Reduction of Theories      Semantical Systems: Probability and Induction      Semantical Systems: Information Theory      Shreider's Semantic Theory of Information      The Philosophy of Science      Hempel's Critique of Analyticity      Carnap's Reply to Hempel      Quine's Pragmatist Critiques      Quine's Critique of Reductionism      Quine's Critique of Analyticity      Quine's Rejection of First Philosophy      Comment and Conclusion
BOOK IV WERNER HEISENBERG AND THE
SEMANTICS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS
50 pages

Heisenberg's Discovery and Einstein's Semantical Views      Heisenberg's Discovery and Einstein's Ontological Criteria      Bohr's Influence on Heisenberg and Issues with Einstein      Semantical Revision and Heisenberg’s Doctrine of Closed-off Theories       Bohr's "Forms of Perception" and Neo-Kantianism       On Scientific Revolutions         Heisenberg’s Philosophy of Science       Comment and Conclusion

BOOK V KARL POPPER ON SCIENTIFIC CRITICISM
SEMANTICS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS
40 pages

Einstein's Influence and the Falsificationist Thesis of Criticism, Explanation, Information, and the Growth of Science       Against Psychologism, Induction, and Naturalistic Semantics       On Computers, Induction Machines, and Scientific Discovery       The Schism in Physics and Metaphysical Research Programmes       Lande's New Foundations of Quantum Physics       Popper's Particle-Propensity Interpretation of Quantum Theory     On Crucial Experiments and Scientific Revolutions       The Philosophy of Science       Comment and Conclusion

BOOK VI THOMAS KUHN ON REVOLUTION AND
PAUL FEYERABEND ON ANARCHY
100 pages
Conant On Prejudice And The Dynamic View Of Science       Kuhn’s Aristotle Experience       Kuhn on the Copernican Revolution       Kuhn on the Structure of Scientific Revolutions       The Evolution of Kuhn’s Philosophy       Popper's Criticism of Kuhn’s Normal Science Thesis       Feyerabend on Theory Proliferation vs. Consensus Paradigm       Shapere's Criticism of Kuhn's Concept of Paradigm       Kuhn Replies       Kuhn, Normal Science, and the Academic Sociologists       Kuhn’s Linguistic Analysis of Incommensurability       Kuhn's Philosophy of Science       Nagel and Feyerabend on Meaning Variance      The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis      Feyerabend on Semantic Incommensurability       Feyerabend on Scientific Anarchy       Feyerabend on Quantum Theory       Feyerabend on Relativism, Historicism, and Realism       Feyerabend's Criticism of Popper       Feyerabend's Philosophy of Science       Comments and Conclusion
BOOK VII RUSSELL HANSON, DAVID BOHM, AND OTHERS
ON THE SEMANTICS OF DISCOVERY
80 pages
Bohm's Early Copenhagen Views      Bohm's Agenda for Future Microphysics      Bohm's Hidden-Variable Interpretation of Quantum Theory      Bohm’s Critique of Heisenberg’s Copenhagen Interpretation      Bohm and Bell on the EPR Experiment and Nonlocality      Bohm on Perception and Metaphor in Scientific Discovery      Bohm on Mathematics and Scientific Discovery      Bohm’s Philosophy of Science      Hanson on the Copenhagen Interpretation and Scientific Discovery      Peirce, Retroductive Logic, and Semantical Constraints in Discovery      Hanson on Perception, Observation and Theory      Hanson's Philosophy of Science      Hesse on Models and Analogy      Hesse on Metaphor      Comment and Conclusion  
BOOK VIII HERBERT SIMON, PAUL THAGARD AND OTHERS
ON DISCOVERY SYSTEMS
165 pages
Thagard’s Psychologistic Computational Philosophy of Science      Thagard on Conceptual Change, Scientific Revolutions, and System PI      Thagard on Discovery by Analogy and Systems ACME and ARCS      Thagard on Criticism by “Explanatory Coherence”      Thagard on Explanation and the Aim of Science      Herbert Simon and Logic Theorist      Neoclassical Maximizing Rationality and Weber's Ideal Types      Simon's Postulate of Bounded Rationality and "Satisficing"      Bounded Rationality, Institutionalism, and Functionalism      Human Problem Solving, Cognitive Psychology and Heuristics      On Scientific Discovery and Philosophy of Science      The Theory of Discovery Systems      BACON and Other Discovery Systems      Simon's Philosophy of Science      Muth's Rational Expectations "Hypothesis"    Haavelmo's Structural-Equations Agenda And Its Early Critics      Mitchell’s Institutionalist Critique      Muth’s Rationalist Expectations Agenda      Rejection of Expectations Data and Evolution of VAR Models      Litterman's BVAR Models and Discovery System      Hickey's Metascience or "Logical Pragmatism"      Hickey’s Linguistic Analysis      Hickey’s Functional Analysis      Hickey's METAMODEL Discovery System      Parsons’ Romantic Sociology      Habermas on Weber      Merton’s Critique of Parsons      Lundberg’s Positivist Sociology      The METAMODEL System Applied to Sociology      A Pragmatist Critique of Academic Sociology’s Weltanschauung      The “Last Sociologist”      Sonquist on Simulating the Research Analyst with AID      Comment and Conclusion
BIBLIOGRAPHY   18 pages

 

 
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